This wholly satisfying collection delivers an entertaining, engrossing, even exhilarating reading experience. The subtitle emblazoned across Duncan Eagleson’s pitch-perfect, retro-kitsch cover of "Impossible Futures" promises its... Read More

For a change, here’s a story of an Earth that is not post-apocalyptic—just a delightful sci-fi romp replete with adventure, aliens, and time travel. If an author’s sci-fi Rip Van Winkle-type hero is going to wake up from a 450-year... Read More

Funny and readable, this story successfully pulls off the sci-fi alien point of view. Gene Snow Olsen’s "First Contact with Humans" nests philosophy, colonialism, and a first-contact scenario inside a Russian matryoshka doll of a... Read More

Tightly written coming-of-age science-fiction thriller is an intriguing page-turner. A video-game character comes to life, invading the soul of a reserved young boy in this science-fiction thriller. Reminiscent of the Twilight Zone... Read More

Colorful characters, escalating pace, and the fate of the Earth highlight this exciting space opera. It’s a theme as tried and as true as John Carter of Mars or Flash Gordon: A man (or a boy, in this case) from Earth is somehow... Read More

“We are not an invasion fleet. We are a procurement team.” That is how the alien invaders, who arrive not as overt conquerors but as clandestine suppliers seeking human meat for a galactic restaurant chain, introduce themselves in... Read More

It is no mean feat to craft a fantasy world that is different, familiar, interesting, and fresh. Gregory S. Close has done that and more with In Siege of Daylight: Book One in the Compendium of Light, Dark & Shadow, a weighty and... Read More

Mike Middleton’s quiet, simple science fiction novel with an environmental message is guardedly positive and hopeful, yet it also has undertones of a cautionary tale related to humanity’s abuse of a planet it has taken for granted.... Read More