If we could visit other planets, what would we find? Would human expansion reveal the Universe to us or simply confirm what we already know about ourselves instead? How will we react at first contact, and what can technological advancements tell us about the human condition? The twelve stories in Interstellar Objects: A Science Fiction Anthology, which range from high-concept science fiction to noire, explore these questions and more. Motivated by real science and a pragmatic, often comedically … [Read more...] about Interstellar Objects by Dillon Sienko
Residual Belligerence (Thieves’ Guild Book One) by CG Hatton
Residual Belligerence is the first book in the Thieves’ Guild series of fast-paced action adventure military sci fi novels. The almost mythical Thieves’ Guild has no qualms about playing both sides of the line, manipulating and exploiting the ever-present rumblings of discontent between Earth and Winter. No one messes with the Thieves’ Guild. Except someone just did. Zach Hilyer is in trouble. Taking a package from A to B always gets more complicated when A doesn’t want to lose it and C will … [Read more...] about Residual Belligerence (Thieves’ Guild Book One) by CG Hatton
Point of Contact by Richard Ayre
In the city of Newcastle people are dying. But not from natural causes. Something is burning them. Turning them to ashes, seemingly in an instant.Tasked with investigating these deaths, fire expert Ian Fenwick finds himself drawn into the murky world of a man known only as William. A man with seemingly limitless powers. A man hell-bent on changing the world into an environment fit only for his strange and terrifying allies; The Visitors. With time running out Fenwick must stop William from … [Read more...] about Point of Contact by Richard Ayre
Whisper Gatherers by Nicola McDonagh
In a world populated by clones, Adara is unique. She has six fingers on each hand and a power she must keep hidden from the desperate survivors of a ravaged world where the Agros rule and corruption thrives. In a land disfigured by famine and disease, panic spreads throughout the scattered population of NotSoGreatBritAlbian as the Agro Empire cuts food supplies and special children known as Meeks, disappear. Now, starving Renegades are gathering, ready to storm the last haven in … [Read more...] about Whisper Gatherers by Nicola McDonagh
Holding Sequence: Cycles Of Fate by Kassandra L. Heglund
PART ONE: A Work of Fate: Shelane Trefarrgha was a scientist, an engineer. She was the best in her field save for one man, Bradford Callormen. And she had studied every shred of his work she could get her hands on. She had determined that, one day, she would even outshine him. But there was one piece of his work she had never gotten a look at, had not even known existed. And it was that work which would change her life forever. Greyden Forrdha was a true Scientist, studying the things which … [Read more...] about Holding Sequence: Cycles Of Fate by Kassandra L. Heglund
Who by Karen A. Wyle
Have they changed their minds? Or have their minds been changed? Death is no longer the end. Those who prepare, and can afford it, may have their memories and personalities digitally preserved. The digitally stored population can interact with the world of the living, remaining part of their loved ones’ lives. They can even vote. Except - someone's in charge of the code. Someone who may have an agenda. After the young and vital Thea dies and is stored, her husband Max starts to wonder about … [Read more...] about Who by Karen A. Wyle
Boston Metaphysical Society: A Storm of Secrets by Madeleine Holly-Rosing
Politics and power. Demons and spirits. When ex-Pinkerton detective Samuel Hunter married Elizabeth Weldsmore, the heir to one of Boston’s Great Houses, he knew his life would change forever, but he never expected the return of Elizabeth’s psychic abilities. Not only do they have to keep it a secret, but Elizabeth must learn quickly how to master them. For a psychic in a Great House is a political liability which her father, Jonathan Weldsmore, knows only too well. As the Great Houses jockey … [Read more...] about Boston Metaphysical Society: A Storm of Secrets by Madeleine Holly-Rosing
Harvest by Olga Werby
Almost a century after Keres Triplets asteroid impact and subsequent nuclear exchange almost ended all human life on Earth, a strange artifact is discovered on one of the moons of Saturn. Who should be sent to the outer reaches of the solar system to initiate the first contact with an alien culture? Dr. Varsaad Volhard, an evolutionary-socio-historian, is chosen to help the world understand the alien civilization that left an artifact some thirty thousand years ago, before humans even learned to … [Read more...] about Harvest by Olga Werby
Sky Parlor by Stephen C. Perkins
From the dawn of mankind... Through America's Civil War and into the distant future... Two ancient gods have made romance and waged conflict... After the Great Rapture... Will Sky Parlor become their final battlefield? Do we ever really die? Or, do we return to live again with those we knew before? In the future, will man and machine learn to procreate? For generations, the population of Sky Parlor has believed that, long ago, the lands beyond the walls of their domed city were made … [Read more...] about Sky Parlor by Stephen C. Perkins
Time Travel by Roxanne San Jose
Angelie Thompson invented a time machine in 2015 and her boyfriend, John Salvador, was accidentally transported back to 1970. Left with no other option, Angelie journeys through time, searching for John. Along the way, she encounters several adventures, meeting new people on her desperate search for her lover. Meanwhile, stranded in 1970 and with no hope of ever returning back to his own time, John begins a new life, working as a receptionist in Lesti Hotel where he finds a new love, … [Read more...] about Time Travel by Roxanne San Jose
