"Come Ride the Rails with Smokestack Jack", by Don E. Shank, is a historical fantasy about a young boy named Larry and his encounter with a puppet named Smokestack Jack. Jack escorts Larry through the United States, teaching him the... Read More

Bernard Boyle, that helpful alien with the power to create soothing fragrances while masquerading as an Earthling teacher, appears again in "Boyle-Breath Breathes", the charming and thought-provoking sequel to Murry L. Peters’s... Read More

"The Journeys of Rowena Sunita Singh" is Guy Jones’s unconventional tale of a British woman’s global adventures during the first half of the twentieth century. Rowena endures abuse, loss, danger, hardship, love, and joy as her... Read More

Like many young people, Amber Breddgeforth has an ambitious goal: earn a graduate degree in business and pursue a fulfilling career. She hasn’t considered the possibility of being swept off her feet by a handsome, successful... Read More

Freshman author Madhav Gokhlay is to be congratulated for concocting a solid, tense, and quite believable political thriller involving rogue CIA operatives, industrial espionage, a dirty bomb, terrorists, and a Pakistani general who may... Read More

For anyone who has ever longed to see one of those hatemongering, rightwing blowhards get their comeuppance, Robin Lamont’s "Wright for America" is that revenge fantasy come to print. The author has crafted a delightful, if at times... Read More

In different parts of the world, at close to the same time, members of the secretive and benevolent Cloister of Akhenaten are suddenly dying of what at first seem to be natural causes. As the death count rises, surviving members and... Read More

The common perception that online dating services simplify a complicated selection process is debunked in "Crossing the Line?" In the hands of wise-cracking author Robin Hutchinson, the dating scene, in general, does not look too... Read More