The stories of Tobias S. Buckell’s "Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories" explore relevant earthly topics in science fiction settings. Fantasies are used to reflect on real atrocities, like the loss of collective... Read More

Otherworldly encounters transform a teenager’s new life in Clyde Boyer’s science fiction novel "Girl Out of Time". Anna’s head has always been up past the stratosphere, but when her parents die, she’s forced to come back down to... Read More

Four people will determine the fate of multiple worlds in A. G. Riddle’s "Quantum Radio". All Ty ever wanted was to use science to unlock the universe’s secrets. But after a historic breakthrough, other forces seek to control what Ty... Read More

A man struggles with past trauma and an uncertain future in Jinwoo Chong’s novel "Flux". A few days before Christmas, Brandon is laid off, falls down an elevator shaft, and blows it with both his boyfriend and a new girl he likes. In... Read More

In Dorothy Tse’s novel "Owlish", a bizarre love affair upends a respectable man’s dull but orderly life in a city that is anything but ordinary. Perhaps it was inevitable that Professor Q, a middle-aged man caught in a dead-end job... Read More

A daring crew undertakes an adventure from which there can be no return in the exciting science fiction novel "Wolf Streak Beta: Awareness". In M. G. Brown’s science fiction novel "Wolf Streak Beta: Awareness", the small, tight-knit... Read More

With fantastical depictions of alien life, Wold Streak Beta: Alienation is an immersive science fiction adventure. Intergalactic crews encounter aliens, treachery, and the greatest adventures of their lives in M. G. Brown’s science... Read More

Human beings strive for autonomy in the face of stringent laws in the dystopian novel "When We Were Mothers". In Nicci Kadilak’s speculative thriller "When We Were Mothers", women’s secrets are threatened in a society wherein... Read More