“You know, they don’t eat chicken in Iceland,” one scientist tells another in Judith Virta’s Sheol Has Opened, a sci-fi mashup of Mayan, biblical, and other... Read More

Boston writer Nicholas Lamar Soutter acknowledges in his new novel, The Water Thief, the canon of dystopian works, with clever allusions to Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, an... Read More

“This land is far too good for the likes of these worms! Let us bring upon them the rage they wrought!” Now that would have been a great opening line for Harrington... Read More

Grace Dillon brings together nineteen works by indigenous writers from four countries for this anthology, the first of its kind. These six short stories and thirteen novel... Read More

Death Sentences, originally published in 1984 as Genshi-gari (Hunting the magic poems), is the first translation of Kawamata Chiaki’s novel into English, and it’s about... Read More

Gripping adventure scenes alternate with lucid and accessible discussions of philosophy, science, and religion in Geoffrey Lee Hodge’s debut novel. Set amidst the devastation... Read More

“Bisel was arrogant, obnoxious, and indifferent. And he was perfectly happy that he possessed all three of those attributes because he smiled when thinking of each and every... Read More

One of the toughest challenges faced by a novice novelist, beyond self-editing, is defining the hero. The hero emulates the story’s moral core, which in turn allows readers to... Read More

Majesty’s Offspring is a rollicking hoot of a space opera. With all the elements of a fun adventure, A.J. Vega’s convoluted yet entertaining yarn of lusty space pirates,... Read More

Takeover marks the first installment in a new science-fiction series by Mitchell Love in which two planets collide in a colossal war. A peaceful planet, ruled by King Allawen... Read More

V’Let and D’Las M’Kaz are orphaned twins, the last survivors of the destruction of their planet Loora. Held in check by a brutal intergalactic council, these twin Galaxy... Read More

It is always exciting to discover a new voice in the science fiction and fantasy genres. Rare is the writer who can splice the Lovecraft Cthulhu mythos with 1950’s Cold War... Read More