Thursday, 1:17 pm is an unconventional and intriguing novel that blends thoughtful insight with an irreverent, anything-goes attitude reminiscent of Chuck Palahniuk. Michael Landweber’s Thursday, 1:17 pm is a thought-provoking... Read More

Anyone who enjoys magical realism would be committing a crime by skipping this remarkable piece of work. Dreamlike and fantastical, yet strangely earnest, Alfredo Vea’s "The Mexican Flyboy" is a magical realist tour de force. Simon... Read More

This teen dystopia undertakes a fascinating, character-driven examination of human nature. "Schism" by Britt Holewinski is a fast-paced, compelling dystopia set in a world where everyone over the age of thirteen has been killed by a... Read More

Evocative details and strong science fiction themes make this short story collection fresh and intriguing. In "The Land of REM" by James S. Earl, fantastical worlds are populated by vivid characters who beg to be revisited, all laid out... Read More

"Intruders" is a solid and suspenseful adventure with satisfyingly complex themes and vividly imagined protagonists. The “ancient aliens” theory gets new life in Zhen Lyu’s challenging but imaginative fantasy adventure novel,... Read More

This unique and entertaining fantasy novel becomes more engrossing with each turn of the page. In "Song of the Sending", an engrossing and highly entertaining novel by Corinne O’Flynn, Jim, a young man from another world, discovers... Read More

This surprising apocalyptic novel is edgy within its faith-based genre, and has the action of a wartime thriller. "Against the Fading of the Light" is the third gripping and graphically violent installment of Stu Jones’s Action of... Read More

Newell has created a fascinating and sensual matriarchal sea world. Genetic piracy on the Fenria high seas leads to an accidental soulmate connection in Lizzie Newell’s science fiction romp, The Fisherman and the Sperm Thief. Inventive... Read More