Phase one, infect a local population and turn them into engineered zombies. Phase two, relocate the patients who had the mutated strain for further experimentation. That appeared to have been the plan for Baseborn Identity Research, or at least the immediate one, but they hadn't...

No matter what a story is about, the first thing I want to listen to is the voice or tone. The author must be able to get my attention and sustain it for the first few pages to get me interested in reading more. In...

William Mears is working towards his doctorate at the University of Southern California. But he doesn't want to take the easy road; he wants his thesis to matter, to impact the world, and be complete on presentation. He wants to take it beyond the lab...

Silent Survivor by Deborah Shlian is a military medical thriller that churns out suspense at a pace to put a reader's pulse into overdrive. Mackenzie Dodd is a war veteran with the horrors of both what she witnessed and what she endured through deployment, and...

Playing in the Rain: When All That Matters is Freedom by Sandra J. Jackson is the first book in the author's Escape Series. It starts with an awakening in a sterile hospital after the teen protagonist, A2, is kidnapped. Unable to even recognize herself in...

Legend of Sumeria: Life · Blood · DNA is a high-tech, hard science fiction graphic novel written by Jay Webb and Dr. Biju Parekkadan. Webb launched an independent film production company in 2004. Dr. Parekkadan is an award-winning Professor of Biomedical Engineering focusing on cell...

Astounding side effects of a rampant virus stun the medical world in the fascinating short story The Disorder by Dez Haidley. The Ontario Centre for Disease Control has called a news conference. They are releasing the bulletin that an outbreak of a new strain of...

Detached by Wendy Weiss tells the story of a father’s desperate attempts to obtain medication for his daughter who is dying of cancer. Jason has failed in his chosen profession and now works as a medical director for an insurance company. He and his wife,...

Malthus Revisited: The Cup of Wrath by Lin Wilder follows Morgan Gardner, a teenager unlike any other around her. She has an exceptional skill; she can talk to animals, only this is something that she does not share with anyone else. For a very long...

Martin Bennett was at the hospital for medical tests after he’d had a stroke. He met John Hardin, an old friend whom he had not seen for 25 years. They had been climbers together and shared a flat with Lester Adams. John had come between...