Wickedly clever, profoundly unsettling, and wildly entertaining.
In Stanfill’s darkly funny SF novel, a brilliant young programmer unleashes an AI tasked with saving the planet, only to discover that its solution may require humanity to disappear. In 2036, Abigail Thompson… Carbon Zero: An AI Dystopia Novel by Craig W. Stanfill
Wickedly clever, profoundly unsettling, and wildly entertaining.
In Stanfill’s darkly funny SF novel, a brilliant young programmer unleashes an AI tasked with saving the planet, only to discover that its solution may require humanity to disappear. In 2036, Abigail Thompson…
A wildly imaginative fusion of haunted-house horror and pulp science fiction.
Rife’s fourth volume in the Cool Thing series begins with a haunted house but quickly reveals that the ghosts are merely one layer of a far stranger mystery. The…
A character-driven science-fiction adventure with brains as well as heart…
Gadeken’s series opener in the Nabukko Trilogy follows a resourceful young woman whose search for her lost memories uncovers unsettling secrets in an isolated human colony. Stranded on an unfamiliar…
Epic, nuanced, and unsettlingly relevant…
In Bao’s science-fiction epic, a fisherman and a soldier from opposite sides of a hidden war cross a fractured galaxy in search of a world erased from history. Vertan Zviedal leaves his impoverished homeworld to…
Witty, vibrant, and enchanting; a genre-bending adventure with heart.
A young Los Angeles cop heads to Mexico City for charro training and stumbles into the legacy of a legendary vigilante powered by music and magic in Lozano’s genre-blending adventure. Pepe…
A dark, cerebral adventure of plague, power, and the dangerous illusion of control.
A battle-hardened pilot becomes entangled in a conspiracy when the machine she uncovers doesn’t just preserve life but also begins to change those who survive it in…
A bold, chilling, and intelligent dystopian tale with striking thematic depth…
A controlled, unsettling vision of societal decay, Rizzi’s SF tale explores how fear reshapes progress into oppression. Humanity crash-lands on Ares and builds a fragile city beneath a hostile…
Urgent, visionary, and deeply thought-provoking.
Nebra blends environmental urgency with cosmic perspective in a bold first-contact story about a planet on trial. An ancient beacon buried in Earth’s wild places summons an alien armada when a rainforest shaman and an…
Inventive, unsettling, and darkly fascinating…
In Nekko’s imaginative vision of the afterlife, an unexpected event breaks the calm continuity of Heaven and leaves a grieving father to care for a mysterious child. A miracle disturbs the quiet order of Heaven’s…
Sweeping, provocative, and pulse-pounding…
A battle-hardened general begins to question the very regime he’s sworn to defend in Hill’s gritty SF thriller. In a future where the Union governs Earth with absolute authority, peace is enforced—and rebellion is punished. When…
A sharp, precise, and quietly brutal SF tale…
Green takes readers into a broken America where surveillance is constant, ideology is lethal, and escape lies off-planet. It is 2070, and the American dream has collapsed into detention zones, surveillance drones,…
A tense, idea-driven SF tale that questions who gets to shape the mind.
A runaway artificial intelligence collides with alchemy, neuroscience, and virtual reality in Domowitz’s speculative novel. Natalie makes her living upgrading illegal brain implants called twinners—AI chips that…
A high-speed romp with an unexpected emotional core.
Lassen launches The Bourbon Chronicles with a high-velocity opening that blends outlaw humanity, hard physics, and bourbon-fueled survival. When 23-year-old physics prodigy Bill Griffin perfects the first wormhole drive, he expects history,…
A vivid, tense, and morally unflinching survival novel.
Kvin’s second installment in the Earth Crash Series is a tense, morally unflinching continuation, deepening its focus on survival not as spectacle, but as consequence. After the asteroid strike, reaching the coast…
Vast, ideologically rich, and scientifically bold.
Cook delivers an ambitious fusion of mythic history, Cold War thriller, and spacefaring adventure in his latest novel. Millennia after freeing enslaved humans, Ithyanna is thrown into the Vietnam DMZ in 1967 and captured…
A punchy, high-energy thrill ride.
Thibault’s bold, mind-bending fusion of science fiction, political intrigue, and moral satire challenges what it means to seek truth in an age built on deception. Deep beneath Antarctica’s ice, something awakens—something older than human history…
A fast-paced, inventive sequel packed with humor, teamwork, and escalating stakes.
In Hines’s hilarious, high-energy sequel to A Boy and His D.O.G. series, Blu and his loyal robot partner are thrust back into action when supposedly defunct TechPals begin glitching…
Gritty, clever, and gripping.
Gong’s latest is a sharp, immersive dystopian thriller where loyalty fractures, rebellion brews, and two intertwined destinies race toward a collision that could upend their world. In a future divided between a pristine virtual realm and…
A haunting, lyrical dystopia pulsing with faith, fury, and fragile hope.
The second novel in Smith-Nochasak’s Taggak Journey trilogy finds River stepping beyond her grandmother’s world to fulfill her destiny of renewal. Having left her grandmother Flo’s swamp behind, River…
Sharp, gripping, and unexpectedly tender—a dystopian thriller that grabs and won’t let go.
A nineteen-year-old waste diver finds her tightly controlled world cracking open in Kilex’s engrossing dystopian tale. Lucy has spent her life scavenging the toxic ruins of Cyclopia,…