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Marlen Bodden Explores Climate Change and Humanity’s Fight for Survival

What happens when humanity’s greatest hope for survival becomes its most dangerous threat? In In Defense of Earth, author Marlen Bodden blends science fiction, climate change and the complexities of human nature into a story about a planet on the brink of destruction. As Earth struggles with devastating environmental disasters,…

BookTribOctober 14, 2026

Fiction Young Adult

Return to Veronica Roth’s World of “Divergent” in “The Sixth Faction”

One of my most anticipated reads of the year is finally here! The Sixth Faction by Veronica Roth is a new adventure into the world of Divergent, retelling the bulk of the original story, but an alternate version of it. The story opens essentially the same way as the original…

Kiersten BjorkOctober 6, 2026

Fiction Recommended

An Alien Promises to Save Earth. A Scientist Has Reason to Doubt.

In Marlen Suyapa Bodden’s In Defense of Earth, the prospect of planetary destruction begins with a family trying to survive the storm of the century. By the time an extraterrestrial android offers to rescue humanity from climate catastrophe, Elaine Johnson-Coleman’s world has already been shattered. Seventeen-year-old Elaine is a competitive…

BookTribOctober 6, 2026

Author Spotlight

Charles R. Cooke on the Fight to Survive in “Orphans of the Sea”

In Orphans of the Sea, Charles R. Cooke introduces readers to Sook Joo, a fifteen-year-old girl whose sheltered life at an orphanage is shattered by loss, violence and betrayal. Forced to navigate a dangerous world where powerful forces prey on the vulnerable, Sook Joo relies on the martial arts training,…

BookTribSeptember 30, 2026

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Ancient Secrets and Modern Ambitions Collide in Sci-Fi Thriller

Maya Lin has barely begun to mourn her father when someone tears through his immaculate Miami Beach home looking for a package her grandmother sent her. Inside is a gold medallion Maya cannot identify. The police officers who arrive seem unusually interested in it, too. Soon, the architectural historian flees…

BookTribSeptember 22, 2026

Fiction

Chloe Benjamin’s “Under Story” Bends Time in a Tale of Love and Loss

Your next book club read has landed with Chloe Benjamin’s new fantasy sci-fi! Under Story will leave you with the need to discuss every last chapter in detail. I’m reeling after finishing Laurel and Eli’s time-bending journey. This is one of the times that reading an early copy is painful…

Kristin KeatonSeptember 1, 2026

Author Spotlight

C. William Tressler Blasts Off Into an Endless Universe of Possibilities

What began as a simple short story quickly grew into an entire universe for C. William Tressler, author of Poncia Problems, the first installment in his planned Kash and Calynn’s Adventures series. Blending fast-paced action, inventive worldbuilding and plenty of sharp-witted banter, Tressler introduces readers to a sprawling sci-fi world…

BookTribAugust 27, 2026

Fiction Recommended

C. William Tressler Launches a Wild Space Adventure in Poncia Problems

Poncia Problems is the first entry in C. William Tressler's planned multi-book "Kash and Calynn's Adventures" series, and it reads like a writer who set out to tell a few fun short stories and then got happily ambushed by his own imagination. The book wastes no time establishing its voice.…

BookTribAugust 24, 2026

Fiction Recommended

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

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

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

Fiction Thrillers

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

Fiction Miscellany

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

Fiction

“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

Fiction Romance

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

Fiction

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

Marlen Bodden Explores Climate Change and Humanity’s Fight for Survival

An Alien Promises to Save Earth. A Scientist Has Reason to Doubt.

Charles R. Cooke on the Fight to Survive in “Orphans of the Sea”

Ancient Secrets and Modern Ambitions Collide in Sci-Fi Thriller

C. William Tressler Blasts Off Into an Endless Universe of Possibilities

C. William Tressler Launches a Wild Space Adventure in Poncia Problems

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

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