In Philip J. Rutherford's Lithosphere Rising, the year is 2122, and climate change has had a devastating impact on the earth and its surviving occupants. The world is almost a deserted wasteland due to years of harsh environmental abuse. Alina is a gifted young hacker...

Loy: In the Forests of the Mind by Todd David Gross follows the story of the Rehloy, people who have evolved in such a way that they are finely in tune with nature. Born blind, they rely on their other senses until puberty. All is...

L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 31: The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year by L. Ron Hubbard is an anthology of short stories by 12 new or amateur writers in 2015. The authors were award-winners in The Writers...

Lifecast by Marc Opsal is set in a city with no laws and no government; control is maintained through advertising which is the driving force of many of the decisions made. This control is supported by the Idol, a young woman who is the standard...

Lost Bits is a dystopian sci-fi novel by Kerry Nietz. Automated human robot K-404 wakes up to find himself in a desolate wasteland covered in unwanted and damaged machines. Having sporadic memories of his ten-year-old human child, Ele, and her family, 404 makes it his...

Love in the Age of Dragons by Fatima R. Henson follows one of the survivors of a destroyed world, Ayanna Grace. She is a citizen of an underground community with a strict system of rules to survive. Supplies are scarce, and people are barely hanging...

Light From the Dust by Matthew William Frend is a compilation of the author's original science fiction short stories, each independent of one another within the genre and each reading entirely as a stand-alone. Frend's stories embody a full range of speculative themes, from Introduced...

Lost and Found: Book 1 of the E Apocrypha by Alex Andre follows Yun-mi, a young woman living in a broken world after all the technology has been wiped out and people are barely surviving. Under the tutelage of Kim Joon Woo, Yun-mi trains to...

Learning “Human” by N.J. de Natris is an engaging story with strong, post-apocalyptic themes. The setting is after a full-blown and devastating war between humans and aliens. The narrative follows an alien, Sigma, who finds himself among humans after the war in a dystopian world....

The pursuit of freedom and democracy can be difficult, especially if your enemy is as evil as President Stoner. The important thing when dealing with someone like him is not to be discouraged after a failed attempt. Zammi Grainger and the other members of the...