Within its compact length of six stories, Amy Lee Lillard’s collection "Exile in Guyville" packs a major punch with its hard-hitting science fiction that centers women’s perspectives. Sometimes darkly humorous and sometimes just... Read More

An incurable, inexplicable condition brings humanity to the breaking point in Kevin Prufer’s novel "Sleepaway". They call it “the sleeps.” This strange phenomenon works its way across the world, forcing whole communities asleep for... Read More

In the wake of a pandemic, fear shapes human existence and beliefs in the speculative, theory-heavy novel "The Shift". In Carolyn Buffington’s musing science fiction novel "The Shift", the question of how much is known about humans and... Read More

In the rich futuristic settings of the novella pair "Dusted by Stars", diverse histories, religions, and technologies are detailed with aplomb. G. A. Matiasz’s adventure-filled science fiction novellas explore themes of racism,... Read More

Earth burns, placing billions of people in a state of crisis in Natasha Pulley’s visionary novel "The Mars House". January accepts a spot on a refugee ship to Mars as a means of escaping the “fairy-tale nightmare” of fire-, flood-,... Read More

In the eerie, suspenseful fantasy novel Fog & Fireflies, a brave girl confronts a relentless and mysterious force. The world is encased in fog that births dangerous phantoms and false voices and that spirits away anything that falls... Read More

In the spirited novel Juno’s Song, a writer awaiting an alien arrival overcomes his fear of death. Electrified and soulful, Michael Kelley’s novel Juno’s Song includes Buddhist meditations on death amid possible extraterrestrial... Read More

A virtual reality game causes widespread mayhem in "Final Video Game", an exciting science fiction novel with a lonely young hero at its center. In order to save the world from an AI takeover, a teenager equipped with a VR headset... Read More