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Forfeiture: Humanity Caught in the Act by JP Nebra

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…
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By Artificial Means (The Mechanic’s Diary Book 4) by Ian Domowitz

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…
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Jovian Son (The Jovian Duology Book 2) by Kim Catanzarite

A twist-and-turn, intelligent SF thriller… Catanzarite concludes her award-winning The Jovian Duology with this immersive installment, taking readers on Svetlana’s journey across the globe as she tries to look for Evander. It has been ten years since Svetlana sought refuge…
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Spindrifts by A-M Mawhiney

Tender and lovely… A superb novel. Debut author Mawhineyt’s near-future novel is set in a world 50 years in the future on earth where everyone works together for attaining sustainability. Racism, climate change, and violence are the things of the…
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The Deadly Crocus (Falling Sky Book 1) by E. T. Ellison

Pure madcap fun… Award-winning Ellison’s series kicker in the Falling Sky series is a thrilling ride, featuring a winning mix of dystopia, fantasy, and hard SF. When the first skyfall blasts a huge hole in the lively planetoid of Hallah,…
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The Immortality Wars by A. Keith Carreiro

Dark, original, and engrossing… Stunningly realized. Set in a world reminiscent of middle ages, this ambitious, deeply intricate speculative fiction thriller series, the first trilogy of a nine-book series by Carreiro brings together an unlikely band of heroes on a…
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Memory Dungeon by R.T.W. Lipkin

An un-putdownable SF mystery… A total knockout. Set in near-future, Lipkin’s outstanding latest explores the themes of memory and ethics through the lenses of science fiction and mystery thriller. Colin Birch, owner and operator of the Memory Palace—a facility for…
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The Friends of Allan Renner by Dave J. Andrae

A cleverly constructed and deeply moving account that enthralls… Andrae debuts with this immersive and complex story, a fine blend of literary fiction and SF. The easy going and careless Allan Renner is approaching forty and currently living in Florida…
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Survival (3 book series) by Chris Wright

A bombshell-laden blend of horror and hard science fiction… Wrights begins his sci fi trilogy with a heaping serving of thrills, scares, adventure, and dark intrigue. Survival, the gripping first book in the series takes readers into a bizarre world…
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Repenter: The Hidden Chapters: Players of the Game Book 1.5 by James McGowan

A thrilling ride… This thoroughly enthralling companion novella to Repenter, the first installment in the Players of the Game series, finds McGowan’s engaging antihero Ashe Stelfire on hunt for a lost adapting blade crafted by Gathiner, God of Invention. Emotions…
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Rats in a Maze by Peter Bailey

A well-executed and deeply engrossing SF tale… Bailey visits a bleak future in his deeply engrossing part-mystery-part-dystopian which features NYPD Detective Ray Fisher. After an unusual accident leaves two people dead, Ray Fisher, the NYPD Detective, begins his investigation into…
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Surviving Crazy by Frank Crimi

A fun, zany romp… Crimi’s highly entertaining follows a group of eccentric travelers as they navigate chaos and dangers in an apocalyptic world. As a newly appointed scout for Arizona Prickly Heat, the Major League Baseball team, Riley is on…
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Wasting Time (Physics, Lust and Greed #2) by Mike Murphey

A darkly humorous romp… Murphey’s swiftly paced second installment in the Physics, Lust and Greed series is an invigorating and emotionally satisfying SF drama. After the time travelers failed to significantly alter the past, Global Research Consortium is in danger…
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The Perfection of Fish by J.S. Morrison

A zany, darkly humorous, and perfectly executed literary SF tale… Gender wars, corporate chicanery, sibling love, family ties, trauma, regret, and yearning are the themes of Morrison’s outstanding debut, a tale of gender wars set in futuristic America. It’s near-future,…
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Stranded in Eloi by Jim Hamilton

A lighthearted, perfectly executed SF romance… Hamilton adeptly mixes gentle science fiction elements with just enough romance, a dash of fantasy, a nostalgic small-town setting, and the sweetly exotic storytelling of a classic fairytale in his latest SF tale. Nick…
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Amir of Guelph by Albert Marsolais

A whopper of a near-future SF mystery… Set in Near-future, Marsolais’s excellent latest, a sweetly charming, delightedly entertaining tale of a group of people trying to unravel a government conspiracy examines friendship, family ties, and loyalty while probing bigger questions,…
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The Pystead Group by James Pryor

An intricate mix of hard SF and philosophy… Set in near-future in 2052, Pryor’s elaborate SF tale features a young cognitive scientist wrestling with superbly real moral, ethical, and political dilemmas. Hoping to escape the violent extremists and oppressive government…
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It Gives You Strength by Philip Raymond Brown

A rip-roaring blend of space opera, history, and fantasy, this is entertainment at its best… In New York City of the prohibition era of 1920s, when the mobster Jack “Legs” Diamond is not the man to mess with, the heavyweight…
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PIERCING THE CELESTIAL OCEAN: The Saga of the Cerulean Universe Begins by Kip Koelsch

A standout… In this multifaceted and rewarding novel, Koelsch has created a world which features some of the most ambitious aspects of SF: faster-than-light travel, alternate reality, multiple universes, and artificial intelligence among other intergalactic scientific elements. When Captain Anton…
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Taking Time: A Tale of Physics, Lust and Greed by Mike Murphey

Vibrant characters and scientific intrigue mark this engrossing SF thriller… Set in 2044 in the Eastern Arizona, Murphey’s intriguing latest science fiction tale featuring a young insecure hero finds the latter trying to fit in with a motley crew of…