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A Slow-Burn Dystopian Mystery Worth the Journey

Mike Colapietro's Where Gods Whisper is an atmospheric entry into speculative fiction that earns its scope through patient, layered storytelling. This novel trusts its readers to piece together a shattered world from fragments. The book opens with Mencken Barnes, a young woman held in some kind of subterranean cell, interrogated…

BookTribAugust 11, 2026

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Bioethics and AI Collide in “Echoes of the Gene”

Echoes of the Gene, the second installment in John H. Thomas's Chronos Files series, is a tightly wound techno-conspiracy thriller that expands its predecessor's world but never loses pace. Picking up the fallout from The Terminal Gene, this book plunges back into a shadow war between the Chronos organization, the…

BookTribJuly 17, 2026

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Frozen Fear Meets Ancient Intelligence in “Icefall”

There's a moment early in Icefall where an Alaska state trooper pulls open the door of a stranded Amazon delivery van and finds the driver catatonic, frozen in place with Sinatra still playing softly on the radio. It's a small, eerie image, and it tells you everything about what this…

BookTribJuly 14, 2026

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Inside “Enter the Nightmare”

With Enter the Nightmare, author Jayne Ann Krentz, writing as Jayne Castle, returns to Harmony with a blend of paranormal suspense, Gothic atmosphere and unforgettable romance. The latest installment in her beloved futuristic series follows Alice North, a woman haunted by a dangerous psychic gift and determined to reclaim her…

BookTribJune 30, 2026

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“The Story Eaters of Yamm” Is a Delightfully Chaotic Sci-Fi Adventure

Through The Story Eaters of Yamm, critically acclaimed author Kevin Hincker brings to life a bizarre, laugh-out-loud and chaotic science fiction tale about a group of struggling science fiction writers tasked with crafting a hostile alien invasion story on Earth.

Natalia KavaleJune 23, 2026

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TJ Klune Turns the End of the World Into a Love Story You Won’t Forget

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.

Michael FerryApril 28, 2026

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The Next Wave of Storytellers Has Arrived — And They’re Rewriting the Future

If science fiction and fantasy have always been about imagining what comes next, then the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest offers something rarer: a glimpse of who will be imagining it. Each year, the contest gathers emerging voices from around the world and gives them…

BookTribApril 23, 2026

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A Dystopia Without Answers — And That’s the Point

What would a world without men be like? What would it be like to grow up without ever knowing a man at all? Jacqueline Harpman’s novel I Who Have Never Known Men offers few concrete answers in response to the questions it poses — of which there are many. The…

Sierra MayerApril 17, 2026

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In This Near-Future America, Freedom Is the First Casualty of Theocracy

Imagine America 20 years from now. How different is the U.S. in 2046? In James Chesterton’s dark speculative thriller Ashes of the Republic we see a future where our current political environment has laid the groundwork for an America that prioritizes surveillance and control over the preservation of freedoms. It’s…

Isabella DeJoyApril 1, 2026

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A Fever-Dream Journey in “Westward Women”

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.

Elizabeth KonkelMarch 12, 2026

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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

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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

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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

A Slow-Burn Dystopian Mystery Worth the Journey

Bioethics and AI Collide in “Echoes of the Gene”

Inside “Enter the Nightmare”

The Next Wave of Storytellers Has Arrived — And They’re Rewriting the Future

In This Near-Future America, Freedom Is the First Casualty of Theocracy

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

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