A feisty teenager tries to solve the biggest puzzle of her life in order to bring a billionaire tech genius home in Dwight D. Karkan’s engaging novel Bixby Timmons and the Dragonthorp Riddle. When Bixby and her family move so her... Read More
Otherworldliness informs the eighteen stories of Julian Mortimer Smith’s "The World of Dew and Other Stories", which range from traditional science fiction to speculative fiction, and from flash fiction to long-form short stories,... Read More
A cast of famous fictional and real-life characters navigates a high-stakes, Victorian-era adventure in the exciting graphic novel "Adler". Irene Adler, first introduced in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, takes the lead... Read More
The fate of Earth hangs in the balance in Gerald Brennan’s alternate history novel "Infinite Blues". The year is 1968, and the Cold War is in a deep freeze. An astronaut arrives at a space station orbiting Earth. He is there on a... Read More
A lonely boy befriends a charming but dangerous robot in Giacomo Sartori’s science fiction novel "Bug". After a horrible car accident leaves his mother in a coma, a disabled boy is left to fend for himself among relatives and teachers... Read More
Rebecca Phelps’s inventive novel "Down World" crosses multiple dimensions and timelines as a teenager searches for a way to heal her family and correct a tragedy that should never have happened. Sixteen-year-old Marina recognizes some... Read More
In Elly Bangs’s science fiction novel "Unity", two people, haunted by their past deeds, outrun an apocalypse to find new purpose. Danae was already planning her escape from Bloom City, an underwater aquapolis, when the war started. She... Read More
Two sisters find very different destinies in Francesca G. Varela’s novel "Blue Mar". Laurel and Paloma have never been to El Salvador, where their beloved Abuelo grew up; gang wars fueled by climate change have made Central America too... Read More