The Auction by Elci North is a speculative fiction novel set in a moderately near future where the laws surrounding reproductive rights have drastically changed. Rape is a myth. Women are at their best in the home. Their husbands are the best caretakers. Babies are...

Mardine Perrins’ Expiration Date is set in a future that is trying to recover from the overexploitation and destruction of resources, making this book perfect for dystopia fans. For a hundred years, everyone has been born with their expiration date marked somewhere on their body....

A Keen Betrayal by Linda Deenen commences by introducing the reader to genetically modified Meandre, who is out patrolling her assigned “zone” for a range of unique creatures, including the apparent enemy “Shadowbeasts”. Meanwhile, Dustin and his patrol partner have instructions to test a new...

The Uprisers is J.C. Gemmell’s second book in the Tion series. When the oceans rose at an unprecedented rate, humankind faced an existential threat. So they solidified the oceans and kept them in space. The forfeður (forefathers) then engineered an existence in the space above...

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...

Facing Off by Tanya Ross is the second book in the dystopian science fiction young adult Tranquillity series, preceded by the remarkably well-received first book in the series, Rising Up. The series is named for the land its troubles are centered on, a place called...

Killer Kudzu by Julius Thompson is a sci-fi apocalyptic horror novel set in the American deep rural south. Scientist John Miller stumbles upon an unknown variant of kudzu while experimenting with a Venus flytrap and trying to assimilate it with the native kudzu. John and...

The Stone Thread by J.R. Evangelisti is a most interesting book and very unusually written. It is a story within a story and it showcases how good triumphs over evil. It is science fiction, the paranormal, and a detective story all rolled into one. The...

Oblivion Awaits: Infinita Book 1 by Christopher Hopper is a dystopian science fiction thriller set in the aftermath of an environmental event that decimated Earth and most of all things living on it. Those that remain are still on borrowed time, but the deep ideological...

Moth City by Kenneth James Allen is a speculative fiction novel that centers around a dystopian future where the laws that govern families are sweeping in both scale and enforcement. Once considered a unifying piece of legislation and roundly embraced by most, once implemented, the...