Category Archives: science fiction
Iceling – Sasha Stephenson
Lorna’s father is a scientist and was working in the Arctic when he discovered a boat drifting. They board and discover babies. No crew. Just babies. Many died, but those that survived were placed with families that had a child … Continue reading
Flashfall – Jenny Moyer
Generations ago, a series of radiation storms began to destroy civilization. The government erected a shield made of a unique element, cirium, to protect the capital city. Some of the population were labeled as subpars and they and their offspring … Continue reading
The Mad Scientist’s Daughter -Cassandra Rose Clarke
When Finn first arrived, five-year-old Cat knew he was different. She suspected that he was a ghost and was afraid of him. But he was kind and gentle, never got angry with her, so she decided he was the sort … Continue reading
The Diabolic – S.J. Kincaid
A murderous empire that rules the galaxy uses gruesome atrocities to keep all colonies in line. The wealthiest families secure Diabolics, genetically engineered killers, to serve as ruthless bodyguards. Nemesis is the Diabolic that one galactic senator purchases to protect … Continue reading
A Trail Through Time: The Chronicles of St. Mary’s Book Four – Jodi Taylor
It looks like Max and Leon are really dead. (Well, Leon is alive in another universe.) Without the primary protagonists a fourth book doesn’t look all that interesting. I’m just not in the mood to really care about some other … Continue reading
The Forgetting – Sharon Cameron
Every twelve years, the citizens of the walled-in city of Canaan lose their memories. Parents have no memory of their children. Relatives and friends forget they ever knew each other. After the first Forgetting, the citizens were required to keep … Continue reading
Learning to Swear in America – Katie Kennedy
Russian boy genius Yuri Strelnikov is a 17-year-old with a PhD in Physics. The Americans recruit him when it is discovered that an asteroid is blazing toward Earth on a collision course with California, exactly where NASA has assembled the … Continue reading
Into the Dim – Janet B. Taylor
Hope knew she was adopted at a young age, but that’s about all her mother told her. Many years later, her mother is presumed dead, killed in an earthquake. Hope is sent to Scotland to reunite with her mother’s family … Continue reading
Starflight – Melissa Landers
Solara has spent most of her life in an orphanage and has learned to fend for herself. It’s not been an easy life and she is now a convicted felon trying to get passage to the outer planets. She’s able … Continue reading
Arcadia – Iain Pears
Henry Lytten, an Oxford don, is writing a fantasy novel. As he writes, his gentle pastoral world emerges. Meanwhile a few hundred years in the future, Angela Meerson has discovered a portal to another world and uses it. Thus, the … Continue reading
Return Once More – Trisha Leigh
Humans left a ruined Earth and now reside in space colonies. Kaia is in the final years of training to be a Historian. This elite group travels back in time to observe history presumably to keep from making the same … Continue reading
The Scorpion Rules – Erin Bow
Future Earth has scarce resources and has been ravaged with wars as a result. For generations, an AI by the name of Talis, has endeavored to reign in the wars by holding the child of each ruler hostage – the … Continue reading
The Fifth Season – N.K. Jemisin
The land is just a normal land, with rivers and mountains, cropland and forests. But it moves a bit. Well, more than a bit. It moves a lot. And so we call this land the Stillness. The Stillness has a tendency to … Continue reading
Alive – Scott Sigler
She awakes to pain and panic. Shackled inside a coffin pitch dark. Sketchy memories fly through her mind. She must escape and fight through the pain to break free, only to find she is trapped in a room with other … Continue reading
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