Funny and readable, this story successfully pulls off the sci-fi alien point of view. Gene Snow Olsen’s "First Contact with Humans" nests philosophy, colonialism, and a first-contact scenario inside a Russian matryoshka doll of a... Read More

Terry Pratchett’s kin crafts a smooth, new branch of the Arthurian legend. Debut novelist Vincent Pratchett takes readers from Celtic Europe to China’s Middle Kingdom in a fantasy tale that commingles Western European, Northern... Read More

In David Khara’s "The Bleiberg Project", Wall Street hotshot trader and millionaire Jeremy Novacek is descending into a very dark emotional hole despite his worldly gains. His father’s abandonment when Jeremy was a boy continues... Read More

Interweaving ancient and contemporary events through the lives of two women in "The Beach at Herculaneum", first-time novelist Susan G. Muth takes a page or two from Anya Seton’s Green Darkness and Daphne du Maurier’s The House on... Read More

In "Starman Heart Stargirl", the third installment of the Sanctuary series, S.C. Williams delves into the continued adventures of a human family whose members have some major run-ins with powerful nonhumans. In the process, Christina... Read More

British novelist Nikki Dorakis begins “The Hand of Justice” fantasy series with a novel featuring themes of loyalty, discipline, love, and loss. Highly skilled mage and adviser to his king, Anubis takes on an apprentice to save the... Read More

Blake Walker’s debut novel takes the reader down the roads that Tolkien built, makes a left turn into Robert Howard’s lands, and goes straight on into the world of a young warrior named Katrina, who faces the greatest challenge of... Read More

Out of the planet-spanning conflict between Auphora, the God of Gods, and Baran, his rebellious son, comes a war that will determine the fate of planet Corin in The Corin Chronicles: The Light and the Dark, the first installment of a... Read More