The Dusk Chronicles is a time-travelling adventure written by Vicki-Ann Bush. After witnessing a man disintegrating to dust in the middle of the street, Noah Winston returned to the scene later, only to find four people where the body had disintegrated. The female of the...

At the very first glance of the cover of Lies We Will Tell Ourselves: Science Fiction Short Stories by Andrew Knighton, one finds it riveting. It generated a complex image of my many faults in my mind – followed by an intense curiosity as to...

The Mod Code by Heidi Tankersley is about one girl and the twin brothers who love her. The only life Sage remembers is on her mother's farm in Kansas. Her best friend is Beckett. When her world is turned upside down, she learns she had...

In Neworld Papers: The Warriors' Tale (Volume 2) by KB Shaw, Fallon is this generation's Indiana Jones, but with more whimsical twists and turns in his adventures than ever before. Our hero and his friends will journey throughout Neworld, but Fallon has reached a dilemma....

Tomb of the Triceratops: Fossil Explorers Book 1 is an action and adventure novel for young adults and preteens written by Michael Ajax. Gabriel and his friend, Leo, were amazed to find that his older brother, Daniel, had left his bedroom door unlocked. He never...

The Sino-American War lasted from 2028 to 2045 and decimated several generations of men. But that wasn’t the worst thing. Along came the Sterility Epidemic that made 90% of the surviving males sterile. A year into the war, the Chinese detonated a nuke over Yellowstone....

Sheep is the precursor to Cows! Both books are by Martin D. Rothery. I read them out of order, but I can truly say I don’t think that it diminished my enjoyment of either. The point is not the plot so much as it is...

Not since Animal Farm by the legendary George Orwell have I seen such an entertaining and astute use of animals to portray the foibles of people. Martin D. Rothery has created a book that is both funny and philosophical in Cows! Imagine for a minute...

Saving Honor is a novel by Melissa C. Water, presented in an extraordinary first-person narrative. Honor O’Neill is plagued by strange visions on a daily basis. A seventeen-year-old victim of high school bullies, she sometimes pictures herself getting revenge. When one of those revenge scenarios...

MAR Rising by Craig Brusseau kicks off with several scenes from humankind’s history. Starting with the evolution of life on planet Earth, to the years 1588 and 1867, Brusseau introduces the antagonist without identification. These vignettes are short stories in their own right and, to...