Goldberg successfully evokes empathy for characters who start out as self-absorbed, only to have their selfishness increase. “You are such a pretentious loser,” one character announces to the protagonist, Noah, of Leo Matthew... Read More

These two protagonists grow out of their tropes to become well-rounded, philosophical characters with big personalities. "A Case of Love and Squalor", by Steve Myers, his third novel and an engrossing, fast-paced thriller, mixes action... Read More

Takolander’s talent for narrating intimate tragedies across age, gender, and time reveals her as a master of the quiet and deeply personal storm. As a first book of short fiction, "The Double" is surprisingly eerie, restrained, and... Read More

Sproles movingly dramatizes the conflicts between good and evil that challenge the characters’ faith in God and each other. Set in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, Cindy K. Sproles movingly depicts simple country folk whose belief... Read More

These stories, all rich in both character and detail, don’t conform to a set genre or approach, letting their Jewish themes link narratives that have rich differences. "The New Diaspora" is an ambitious project, bringing together... Read More

Exploratory fiction at its most powerful and intelligent, "Maker" will challenge and reward all those who have ever wanted to believe in almost anything. Erec Stebbins concludes his Daughter of Time trilogy with a novel that manages to... Read More

Adventure, satire, dystopia, all in one well-written speculative-fiction package. Nature’s Confession, a new speculative fiction novel by J. L. Morin, works to combine adventure, science fiction, and some political satire. It also has... Read More

The human-machine interface is coming, and this book takes us on a wild tour of our possible future. The term is “techno-optimism,” and "Transcendence" has it in abundance. According to the authors’ view, humans will soon build... Read More