Summary Publication Date: June 3 2025Publisher: Ezeekat Press / Bindery Books416 pgsAudio: 8h 20mNarrator: TBD Spaceships aren’t programmed to seek revenge—but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, […]
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Review: Dreambound by Dan Frey
Summary: When Byron Kidd’s twelve-year-old daughter vanishes, the only clue is a note claiming that she’s taken off to explore the Hidden World, a magical land from a series of popular novels. She is not the only child to seek out this imaginary realm in recent years, and Byron—a cynical and hard-nosed reporter—is determined to […]
Review: The Coincidence Makers by Yoav Blum
Summary: In this genre-bending novel, there is no such thing as chance and every action is carefully executed by highly trained agents. You’ll never looks at coincidences the same way again. What if the drink you just spilled, the train you just missed, or the lottery ticket you just found was not just a random […]
Review: The Fourth Consort by Edward Ashton
Summary: Dalton Greaves is a hero. He’s one of humankind’s first representatives to Unity, a pan-species confederation working to bring all sentient life into a single benevolent brotherhood. That’s what they told him, anyway. The only actual members of Unity that he’s ever met are Boreau, a giant snail who seems more interested in plunder […]
Review: Colossus by Ryan Leslie
Summary: For fans of psychological SF novels like THE GONE WORLD and SIX WAKES Economics professor Clay West has always explained the world through the lens of his profession. But after his girlfriend Karla takes Dying Wish—a drug that supposedly reveals the nature of reality moments before it claims your life—Clay is devastated. No amount […]
Review: I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin
Summary: A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America’s age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin. Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC. But […]
Book Review: The Quiet Room (Rabbits #2) by Terry Miles
Summary The lore and legends around the underground game known as Rabbits gain new dimensions in this twisty tale set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast. After nearly winning the eleventh iteration of Rabbits, the mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas, Emily Connors suddenly finds […]
Review: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Synopsis Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time. To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they […]
10 SciFi Horror Books for Your October TBR!
October means spooky season is upon us and like many of us out there – we’re looking for that ‘mood’. So for the sake of giving some of my favorite reads a boost, here are 10 excellent Scifi Horror books to get you going. In this curated selection, I’ve selected books where Horror and Technology […]
Review: The Hexologists by Josiah Bancroft
Summary: The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled […]
8 ‘Black Mirror’ Type Books That Examine the Future to Come
Technology is leading us down a rapid and uncharted path. And while we can assume that the intentions of these technologies are to better our lives, many cases have already arisen where, when placed in the wrong hands, technology can be pretty scary. This is a collection of books that take a good hard look […]
Review: Battery Life by Brennan Gilpatrick and Gregory Lang
Summary: Equal parts Z for Zachariah and Mad Max, Gilpatrick and Lang’s darkly funny debut follows a girl from outer space and an aging scavenger who must learn to trust each other in order to survive. Welcome to the Junkyard, a toxic wasteland where humans, machines, and everything in between fight for survival among the […]