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When Power Devours Purpose and Justice Turns Ferocious

Jonathan R. Miller’s Animal Control is a bold, cerebral and unnervingly intimate exploration of what happens when the need to make the world better collides with the corruptive pull of control. Set in San Jose, this story follows 17-year-old Shay Garner, a young woman whose moral compass starts out strong…

Monique SnymanOctober 8, 2025

From Personal Loss to Cosmic Terror: The Relentless Ride of “Veil”

Veil by Jonathan Janz is the spiritual lovechild of movies like Predator and novels like The War of the Worlds and The Three-Body Problem. A story of endurance and perseverance, love and humanity. It’s impossible not to relate to the characters in this novel, asking yourself, “What would I be…

Caleb ThomasSeptember 19, 2025

Feminist Dystopian Novels from the Same Era as Handmaids Tale2

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The Forgotten Feminist Dystopias That Predicted Our Present

At a time when women’s rights are once again threatened, it’s worth looking back at what feminist authors warned us about decades ago. When Margaret Atwood published The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985, she was part of a powerful wave of women writing feminist dystopian science fiction, which we now call…

JeriAnn GellerSeptember 19, 2025

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Lit Picks: 7 Haunting Spooky Season Reads

The following books don’t care if you survive. They tear through your head, leave you questioning what’s real and what isn’t, and they don’t let go. Fantasy hits with grit and blood, sci-fi scrambles your sense of everything, horror crawls under your skin and stays. You’ll find mirrors that lie,…

BookTribSeptember 11, 2025

Listicles

Cli-Fi Novels with Rich People Building In Inadvisable Places, Inadvisably

SALVAGIA, my debut sci-fi mystery, is set along the future flooded Florida coast. Mean season is twice as long and twice as strong, and Miami is long abandoned. Despite this, lots of money is about to come in to build it all up again and make most of the same…

Tim ChawagaSeptember 3, 2025

Fiction

A Groundbreaking LGBTQ+ Crime Fiction Anthology

There have been some excellent novels published in the last several years looking at historical crime fiction through a queer lens — books set in 1950s Los Angeles, 1950s Washington, D.C., 1828 Edinburgh, 1866 Paris, an English manor house in 1899, the dockyards of Tacoma, Washington, in 1888. What we…

Neil NyrenAugust 27, 2025

Fiction

Romance, Research and a Riveting Murder: The Start of an Addictive New Series

History Lessons is real-life tenured college professor Zoe B. Wallbrook’s debut novel, heralding a new series. In nearly equal parts humor, romance and murder mystery, it features captivating young heroine Daphne Ouverture, who will be an instant fan favorite. Daphne has the bragging rights of a freshly minted doctorate, which…

Linda HitchcockAugust 20, 2025

Fiction

Elly Griffiths Reinvents Crime Fiction with a Time-Traveling Twist

Elly Griffiths began her career with a charming series of women’s romantic fiction set in Italy under her birth name, Domenica de Rosa, before becoming an immensely successful mystery writer whose work is widely translated and published in many countries, with over five million copies sold. Born in London and…

Linda HitchcockAugust 4, 2025

Thrillers

Holly Jackson Delivers Fierce Countdown in Woman’s Quest to Solve Her Own Murder

What would you do if you found out you only have seven days to live? In this page-turning mystery thriller, Jet Mason chooses to spend her final week on earth solving her own murder. Not Quite Dead Yet is the latest novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of…

Natalia KavaleJuly 24, 2025

Miscellany

Blurring the Lines of Reality: Creating Characters That Are Robots or AI

I’ve been a science fiction fan for as long as I can remember. Whether watching Star Trek reruns as a child or spending hours engrossed in the works of Asimov, Bradbury, Butler and others, escaping to universes populated by aliens and robots is one of my greatest joys. Once I…

J.E. ThomasJuly 10, 2025

Author Spotlight

High-Stakes Pulse-Pounding Techno-Thriller Combines Adventure and Intrigue

Imagine a covert operative enhanced by microscopic technology, only to discover the very tools that empower her might also be used to control her. This is the exhilarating premise of The Hidden Pulse, a high-octane blend of science fiction and thriller that grabs hold from page one. In this Q&A, we…

BookTribJune 18, 2025

Fiction

A Sheep-Led Mystery with Humor, Heart and Hair-Raising Stakes

Big Bad Wool, written by the pseudonymously named Leonie Swann, was translated from the German by Amy Bojang, the translator of the previous two novels in the Miss Sharp Investigates series. The current thriller, or “Sheep Detective Story,” was first published in Germany in 2010 with the title Garou, derived…

Linda HitchcockJune 12, 2025

Listicles

10 Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Reads for Pride

Happy Pride Month! To celebrate, we've curated a list of ten science fiction and fantasy novels that showcase the richness and diversity of LGBTQ+ narratives. These stories span a variety of genres and settings — from precolonial island nations and cyberpunk metropolises to gothic castles and magical circuses. Each book…

Katie BloomerJune 2, 2025

Recommended Thrillers

Nanotech Conspiracy Ignites a Pulse-Pounding Fight for Free Will

From the very first chapter, readers are thrust into a scene that is as explicit as it is explosive. Catalina’s covert sexual encounter is not just provocative—it’s pivotal, setting the stage for a high-stakes mission powered by nanotechnology, espionage, and erotic intensity.

BookTribMay 28, 2025

Author Spotlight

Teaching Machines to Care: The Ethical Heartbeat of “Moral Code”

What does it mean to teach a machine right from wrong? In Moral Code, the boundaries between technology and humanity are tested through the creation of Elly, an artificial intelligence designed not for efficiency or profit, but for compassion, protection, and ethical decision-making. In this Q&A, author Lois Melbourne explores…

BookTribMay 22, 2025

Miscellany

Predicting the Future, from Ancient Greece to Modern Sci-Fi

The concept of predicting the future has changed over time. If we were to go back to Ancient Greece, say, and ask the Oracle at Delphi about the future, the answer, wreathed in riddles, would be about a specific event. Croesus (the “rich as” guy) famously asked if he should…

Adam OyebanjiMay 22, 2025

When Power Devours Purpose and Justice Turns Ferocious

The Forgotten Feminist Dystopias That Predicted Our Present

Lit Picks: 7 Haunting Spooky Season Reads

Cli-Fi Novels with Rich People Building In Inadvisable Places, Inadvisably

Blurring the Lines of Reality: Creating Characters That Are Robots or AI

High-Stakes Pulse-Pounding Techno-Thriller Combines Adventure and Intrigue

10 Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Reads for Pride

Nanotech Conspiracy Ignites a Pulse-Pounding Fight for Free Will

Teaching Machines to Care: The Ethical Heartbeat of “Moral Code”

Predicting the Future, from Ancient Greece to Modern Sci-Fi

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