The young captain of the airship Independence has the unusual name of Rat - a result of his hunter-gatherer activities as a boy. A Man Called Rat by Regina Puckett presents us with a dystopian future where a great war has destroyed a large percentage...

A Time to Speak is Book 2 in the explosive sci-fi/dystopian series, Out of Time, by Nadine Brandes. With plenty of suffering, conflict, tension and action, A Time to Speak takes its readers to another place, a fractured world where time is a precious commodity,...

A few years ago a sub-genre of science fiction called Cyber Punk became very popular. I liked it a lot and read a lot of stories by guys with styles similar to William Gibson. One aspect of these stories that I found very fascinating, but...

A young Washington DC journalist is travelling on the city’s Metro when it is destroyed by a nuclear attack. One thousand years later, she is found perfectly preserved in an icy radioactive pool by researchers studying the blast site. A World Rebuilt by R.K. Ward...

Ares by K.A. Finn is the story of Gryffin, a cyborg who was left to die in the Outer Sector by the Foundation. Part of a failed experiment, Gryffin was a lost cause, but he survived. The human in him was almost dead, the machine...

Ian Patrick Williams’ A.I. P.I. sets a perfect scene for a down-at-the-heel private eye. A jaded, cynical ex-cop with an office he owes rent on in a bad neighbourhood, Raymond, or RMD3000, is one of a minority of artificially intelligent androids, feared and discriminated against...

Clara Spinner's genetic code, occupation and expiration date have been predetermined by the government. So when her innermost desires conflict with her rigidly planned life, she must hide them or risk losing everything. Avant Nation by CD Verhoff had hints of several of my favourite...

Ain't No Grave by S.A. Softley tells the tale of a man facing a changed world after a virus outbreak. The story begins as he is on a plane, on a flight to see his mother. While on the plane, the man next to him...

Christian fiction tends to come in two flavors: books written for other Christians, and books written for a secular audience (though usually with some sort of apologetic goal such as Tosca Lee’s work). A Time to Die by Nadine Brandes is solidly in the first...

Alliance.125: Hirunda by Raita Jauhiainen is a unique and well crafted dystopian novel. Jani is a young man who lives in one of the biggest cities in the world. It's a city of progress that managed to survive the Great War, and bring about an...