Derailed Conscience is a standalone novella, a short quick read set in coming-day Britain about Jonathan, a research assistant to a psychologist, Kathryn Blake, who has her sights set on being a name that is dropped, known as a superstar psychologist. Without their knowledge, Blake…
For 15 years old, Madness is an impressive first older young adult novel that has fantasy, paranormal and horror aspects set in a dystopian game setting. There is a plot that keeps moving with enough light (or slow) moments for the reader to catch their…
Judith “Jack” Chen is a pirate biologist-engineer that reverse engineers patented drugs for delivery into the hands of those who need the drugs but cannot afford them. Eliasz and Paladin, a bot are investigators sent out by a governmental agency, the International Property Coalition (IPC)…
Arthur Dowekyo’s As Wings Unfurl is a dystopian novel set primarily in New York City, though parts of the story take place in Tibet, and South Vietnam. It is a world that features unusual characters and action. Remember that when you read the prologue; pay…
If you like Marko Kloos’ military dystopian series, you will like Ken Brosky’s The Proving. The specters which resemble dinosaurs, both the flying and the earth-bound kind, haunt the survivors of the Earth. The specters seek out and destroy the survivors who have fought a…
What is morality? Is something that can be judged on an objective basis? Or is it a subjective amorphous concept that is relative to facts and circumstances in any particular situation? Is it an ideal that only religious authorities can define? What about natural law? What…
Set in New York City, Sarah Rees Brennan’s Tell the Wind and Fire is a dystopian novel in which two worlds, the Dark and the Light are pitted against each other. In the afterword, the author relates about how Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two…
Part Twilight Zonesque, comic horror in the style of Gary Val Tenuta’s The Good Librarian, dystopian similar to Susanne Valenti’s Chained, and dark humor, Nothing is Strange could be classified as speculative fiction. Twenty stories comprise the short volume. It is a quick entertaining read.…
Alex Fayman’s Superhighway is a speculative fiction novel that is a mix of techno, science fiction, dystopian, and thriller elements. Superhighway is a good first start for Alex Fayman. His idea, the transporting of humans through the Internet via network fibers is not unlike the “Beam Me…
For a debut author, C.A. Higgins’ Lightless is an excellent foray into the world of science fiction that transcends the boundary between man and machine. Like most science fiction that has a dystopian/post-apcolyptic feel, Lightless’ premise is relatively straight forward and not unlike Terms of…
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