Moving through landscapes marked by decay, a government agent’s sense of identity wavers in the humane dystopian novel "The Below". In Scott T. Miller’s haunting dystopian novel "The Below", emotional scars and social divisions... Read More

In its form and shifting subjects, the imaginative speculative novel "The Tesseract" plays with the power of words and the limits of language. Karima Vargas Bushnell’s reality-bending speculative novel "The Tesseract" moves through... Read More

On Mars, the fight for independence grows in the satirical science fiction novel "The Second World", which focuses on an unlikely hero who’s not used to winning. Jake Korell’s amusing science fiction novel "The Second World" is a... Read More

On a planet where people are kept as pets, human consciousness reemerges in the eerie science fiction novel "Kobo". In Richard Allen’s disturbing science fiction novel "Kobo", human empathy, intelligence, and cruelty are mirrored in an... Read More

Women’s instincts and memories are alchemical in A. J. Ashworth’s unnerving speculative collection "Maybe the Birds". In one tale, a school shooting survivor carves mementos mori for the lost; her relationship fractures with the... Read More

Kendall Kulper’s science fiction novel A Time Traveler’s History of Tomorrow is about young love and personal representation. In 1934, teenage Genevieve dreams of being a scientist. Spending more time at libraries than home, she... Read More

In Shannon K. English’s science fiction novel, rivals clash over duty and agency. After wars leave Earth uninhabitable, humans survive aboard the Eden space station. There, Will, the daughter to a royal leader, goes to school and... Read More

On the lighter side of melancholy, "Protocol Heresy" is a near-future novel about the damage done when people are left to mourn alone. C. J. Loveman’s affecting science fiction novella "Protocol Heresy" is about the psychological... Read More