With action and characters that would feel at home in a Gibson novel, this reads like a loveletter to the cyberpunk genre.
Science Fiction
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: Contact Front (Drop Trooper #1) by Rick Partlow
Full transparency: I’m the Director of Publicity for Aethon Books. However, this review is 100% honest, unbiased, and based solely on my reading experience. TL;DR Review: Fast-paced story, great character work, and a perfect balance between easy reading and complex tech. Incredibly addictive military sci-fi evocative of Warhammer, but without the grimdark. Synopsis: The Choice: […]
Review: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 edited by Nnedi Okorafor
Synopsis: A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by award-winning author of Death of the Author and the Binti Trilogy, Nnedi Okorafor, and series editor John Joseph Adams. The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and […]
Book Review: Against All Odds (Grimm’s War #1) by Jeffrey H. Haskell
Full transparency: I’m the Director of Publicity for Aethon Books. However, this review is 100% honest, unbiased, and based solely on my reading experience. TL;DR Review: Grand in scope, as complex as any David Weber or Tom Clancy story, and with an idealistic flair that resonated deeply with me. A sci-fi series I can’t wait […]
Review: Toothsucker (Toothsucker #1) by Kaden Love
Toothsucker has a unique mash-up of genres and tropes, with vampires born of cybernetic implants.
Review: Every Dark Cloud by Marisca Pichette
A deep and atmospheric eco-apocalyptic novella.
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 […]
Shadows Upon Time (Sun Eater #7) by Christopher Ruocchio
Synopsis The seventh and final novel of the galaxy-spanning series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe at last lights the greatest fire humanity has ever seen. The trumpet sounds. The end has come at last. After his victory at Vorgossos, Hadrian Marlowe finds himself a fugitive, on the run […]
Into the Storms: A Hell Divers Prequel by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Synopsis In the shadow of extinction, legends are forged. From The New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes Into the Storms, the untold origin story of humanity’s darkest day. Two and a half centuries before the Hell Divers, the Machine War erupted—autonomous killer robots turning Korea into a battlefield that threatened to consume civilization. As the […]
Review: Tracer by Brendan Deneen
Synopsis From bestselling and award-winning author Brendan Deneen comes Tracer, a fast-paced sci-fi romance adventure that sends one mercenary on a dangerous mission across a postapocalyptic landscape. Perfect for fans of Mad Max and Blade Runner. In the near future—after a virus has swept the globe and oil has run dry—what’s left of humanity has created a new technology, […]
Review: Some Body Like Me by Lucy Lapinska
Synopsis As the world falls apart around them, piece by piece, Abigail Fuller spends humanity’s final days looking after her husband David. But that’s not true, not really. Abigail isn’t David’s wife. She’s not even human. She’s a replacement, built in the image of the real Abigail, who died sixteen years ago. When the law […]