Synopsis: Meet an extraordinary father and son in this captivating, heart-wrenching speculative debut. It’s a day like any other when Scott Treder first jumps forward through time. One moment, he’s on his way to work, fingers drumming the steering wheel. The next, he’s tumbling head-long down the road, his car gone, a dozen panicked voicemails […]
Time Travel
Review: Star Trek: Picard: To Defy Fate by Dayton Ward
Synopsis A thrilling new adventure based on the acclaimed TV series Star Trek: Picard! 2401: Just weeks after defeating a devastating joint attack by rogue Changelings and remnants of the Borg Collective, Starfleet and the Federation face a long period of recovery that requires replacing lost personnel and ships. While touring the U.S.S. Titan-A, which is just […]
Review: Terrible Worlds: Destinations by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Synopsis: The Future Is The Journey. The vastness of space, the endless ribbon of time, worlds beyond our own: humanity has always been driven to explore, to pass the horizon and enter the unknown. For too many, that drive is what ultimately destroys us. In three critically-acclaimed novellas, the “British master of science fiction” (Reactor) […]
Review: Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur by Ian McDonald
Synopsis: Come one, come all to the dinosaur circus! Tif Tamim wants nothing more than to be a dinosaur buckaroo. An orphan in search of a place to rest his head and a job to weigh down his pockets, Tif has bounced from circus to circus, yearning for a chance to ride a prehistoric beauty […]
Review: War of the God Queen by David Hambling
Synopsis Jessica: a modern woman, thrown back into the bronze age, alone among a strange and violent people. Amir: a nomad warlord, leading a hopeless battle against monstrous invaders, looking for a miracle. To Amir, the beautiful stranger is a sign from heaven. And Jessica, though no warrior, has hidden talents even she does not […]
Review: A Swift and Sudden Exit by Nico Vincenty
A clever sapphic sci-fi romance—one that leans more into the romance than the science.
Review: God’s Junk Drawer by Peter Clines
Synopsis God’s Junk Drawer is a mind-bending tale of mystery and adventure set at the dawn of time. Welcome to the Valley … Forty years ago, the Gather family—James, his daughter Beau, and his son Billy—vanished during a whitewater rafting trip and were presumed dead. Five years later, Billy reappeared on the far side of the […]
Review: Tailored Realities by Brandon Sanderson
Synopsis: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson-creator of the Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy-comes Tailored Realities, a new short fiction collection including the never-before-published novella Moment Zero. Spanning the genres of fantasy and science fiction, this collection features stories from beyond the bounds […]
Review: CTRL-Z by Iain Benson
Synopsis: Welcome to the apocalypse. On repeat. On any given day, millions of people are in London. Now they’ve gone. But they’re still hungry, and these dead don’t walk… they run. At moonrise, London reboots: sirens, smoke, sprinting dead. Parkour-hardened survivor Zane survives by motion, flying from roof to roof, balcony to bus. He wakes […]
Book Review: Extremity by Nicholas Binge
TL;DR: Murder mystery with a little bit of horror, and a whole lot of “WTF is going on?” Engaging, zippy pacing, and an all-around great read. Synopsis: A time-traveling, end-of-the-world police procedural, Extremity is True Detective if written by Philip K. Dick. When once-renowned police detective Julia Torgrimsen is brought out of forced retirement to investigate the murder of […]
Review: Extremity by Nicholas Binge
Synopsis A time-traveling, end-of-the-world police procedural, Extremity is True Detective if written by Philip K. Dick. When once-renowned police detective Julia Torgrimsen is brought out of forced retirement to investigate the murder of Bruno Donaldson, a billionaire she worked with whilst undercover, she doesn’t expect to find two bodies. Both are Bruno–identical down to the […]
Review: Hive (Madders of Time #1) by D.L. Orton
Synopsis: What if saving the future meant rewriting the past? In a dying world overrun by microdrones, humanity’s last survivors cling to life inside the Eden-17 biodome. Isabelle Sanborn knows her time is running out, but one desperate plan might give humanity a second chance. With the help of Madders, an enigmatic AI built from […]