Five Score and Ten by Col. Bill Best begins in 1991. Twenty-two-year-old author Jennifer Lane lives in Atlanta. She witnesses the murder of Fred Jackson killed by Louis "Bull" Thatcher. Jennifer calls Mick Thompson for help. Fred Jackson, the owner of Jackson Longevity Research Center,...

Montgomery Hughes scored a negative on Dr. Sonja Woodward's genetic test conducted at their school. His friend Joseph, however, scored a positive and happens to be the perfect candidate for Woodward Academy. According to the test he is predisposed to bad behavior. After graduating from...

The Winter Purge is a dystopian sci-fi thriller by M.L. Lloyd. It's the 28th century, and humanity has achieved immortality by transcending their biological forms and gaining the ability to transfer their souls through multiple lives. However, a devastating accident fifty-six years ago caused the...

A Distant Earth by Nick Iuppa and John Pesqueira is an imaginative look at a world visited by aliens. People are divided into multiple factions, some for the message the alien people deliver and some against it. And still, other factions operate with their own...

T.E.D.D.I.E. B.E.A.R. in S.P.A.C.E. by Victoria Bastedo succeeds in its premise by delivering a psychiatrist to the forefront of the plot where such a character often plays a support role in space opera stories. The SST Featherfleet is no USS Enterprise, but it fares impressively...

New America 2042 is a dystopian sci-fi thriller written by Brett Krausse. In the not-so-distant future, the world is governed by the Co-Op, an algorithm fulfilling the needs of the general public following the ideals of neosocialism. Henry Smith and cofounder Derwyn Davis have successfully...

The First Robot President by Robert Carlyle Taylor is a sparkling satire. Geraldine Jenkins is shocked to discover her son has purchased a robot wife. Powerless to change his mind, she insists he marry the android in a traditional ceremony. The robot is supposedly programmed...

Hard Kill by Bill Eckel is an action-packed sci-fi novel set in the distant future. After being exiled from Earth two hundred years ago, Transhumanists set up a colony in the dwarf planet of Eris. Faced with ever-rising costs to maintain their immortality, The Royal...

The Terminal Code by J.W. Galliger is a dystopian sci-fi thriller. It's the year 2050, and SCAPE, a virtual reality program, has taken over people's lives as everyone stays online. Dashiell Kincaid, a security consultant, is summoned to analyze the scene of a peculiar murder...

At first, Babouc's Vision seems a bit Dickensian, a la A Christmas Carol, as our main character Harl Babouc gets a spectral visit from a phantasm/angel/spirit with a compelling mission. However, in this case, Babouc is more the reporter, tasked with weighing and measuring the good...