In "Slaves to Neurons", Kaliannan Raju investigates the near future of robotics and the nature of human consciousness through the lenses of authentic and imagined science. Pete McRae, a neurologist-cum-robotics engineer, is bedeviled by... Read More

Tanja Kobasic’s "Angels in Stone" is a supernatural thriller about a woman and the lengths she goes to for a chance at “happiness.” The seedy characters populating the novel—from voodoo priestess to rich philanderer, from harelip... Read More

The universe of "Hideous Exuberance", the new novel by Stephen C. Bird, is one of demented imagination and verve. It can also be exhausting. The work lies somewhere between Harry Potter burlesque and Tolkien satire, with doses of... Read More

Ken Goldberg’s second novel, "Peter Cubed", delivers an existential adventure that strains the boundaries of taste with goofy scenes of sex and violence along with detailed forays into fantasy and the mechanics of sanity. Yet with this... Read More

Swedish writer Inger Frimansson is back with a new thriller, "The Cat Did Not Die". After absorbing this psychological descent into madness you may want to rethink how private that summer cottage is. You may even hide your ax. "The Cat... Read More

Fiction for young adults (YA if you are pub-geeky) is taking the world by solar storm. We have seen the novels and the movies, now Underwords Press brings us an anthology of YA shorts. True to trend, "Futuredaze" features both space... Read More

John Barr, writer of epic poems or poetic epics (the poetry-illiterate may not draw a distinction), has returned with Book II of The Adventures of Ibn Opcit. This second volume, "Opcit at Large", mires our eponymous poet-hero in more... Read More

Michael Jarvis’s "Field of Vision" is about a young photographer’s visit to the fictional Caribbean island of Soufriere. Upon his arrival, Jacob antagonizes a local named Rollo, whose ensuing wrath is predicated on his rage at... Read More