Deft descriptions of darkness and action add dread to these daring sci-fi, horror novellas. People wake up from their isolation, stupor, or loneliness only to see the world’s real horrors in Rene David Rivero’s wide-ranging short... Read More

Existential questions in the midst of grand conflicts, all peppered with elves, goblins, and otherworldly creatures—and James Bartholomeusz juggles them all well. This last installment in James Bartholomeusz’s Seven Stars Trilogy... Read More

This amazing story concept will have teens clamoring for more. In this exciting fantasy adventure, Joan Lion, aka Lionheart, breaks free from the donor system and learns a great deal about herself in the process. In the future, donors... Read More

The Antorus Saga: Prequel, by Mukhtar Farid, is a short sci-fi story with a conventional premise that needs more work before it can stand out in the crowded science-fiction market. The twenty-six-page, large-print format makes it unclear... 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

Pagan rituals and herbal medicine team up with laser beams and space travel in "Khamlok", the second installment in Regina M. Joseph’s Alterran Legacy series. With Colony Earth in 2012, Joseph began to explore an alternate history of... Read More

"There Comes a Prophet", a young adult novel by David Litwack, focuses on three friends—Nathaniel, Orah, and Thomas—who have grown up together in the village of Little Pond, part of a carefully controlled network of settlements... Read More

"Shadows and Fire" is set in a future in which mankind shares the world with genetically engineered beast-people. Both human and so-called “supernatural” society are in dire straights: Humans are under the repressive yoke of the... Read More