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Speculative Thriller “Azalea Bluff” Explores the Human Costs of UFO Cover-Ups

"Artist's impression of Die Glocke" by WeskerX incorporated into this artwork under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. "Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury at his best and reading like a great episode of The X-Files, this is science fiction writing of the highest order." —Jon Land, USA Today bestselling author of The Rising…

Cynthia ConradJuly 30, 2021

Fiction

Strange World, Faithful Friends — and Monsters Await “Beneath the Ruins”

It’s getting dark. Residents of Arkdale soon will shelter for long weeks behind their town’s locked gates until the weak sun begins to shine again. Even in the light time of year, only the brave — or foolhardy — venture out to explore the nearby ruins of an unknown civilization,…

Joanna PoncavageJuly 19, 2021

Fiction

“The Book of Bob” Takes You From the Present to the Future in the Blink of an Eye

Aaron Hodges is fresh from an argument with his wife, Cynthia, when he leaves for a business trip early one morning. On his way to the airport, he tells himself they will reconcile once his plane lands. It had been a small, trivial misunderstanding and the two of them would…

Nicole MaherJuly 9, 2021

Fiction

A Journey Into Inner and Outer Space Awaits in “New Moons: The Seed Songs, Book One”

Background art: Lotus Life by Nancy Ashmead, acrylic on canvas; used with permission of the artist It’s 800 years in the future, and an interstellar odyssey is underway. Earth had become too toxic for habitation 700 years prior, triggering a mass migration known as the Ascendency. A group of indigenous…

David ToddJuly 1, 2021

Fiction

“Dreamworms” Series Opener Is a Complex and Layered Story of Two Futures

If you are looking for an exciting, detailed, intricately woven science fiction novel, look no further than Dreamworms: The Advent of DreamTech (Future Notion Press) by Isaac Petrov. A story told in layers of dreams within dreams, this first installment of an intended trilogy takes the reader on a mind-bending ride…

Gevera Bert PiedmontJune 28, 2021

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Genetic Engineering Takes a Murderous Turn in the Thriller “Bodies”

What makes a person themselves? If you clone someone's body and replicate their memories, which one of them is "real" — the original or the copy? What if it's the President of the United States or the Queen of England? What if you make dozens of copies? And tweak them…

Gevera Bert PiedmontMay 25, 2021

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Sci-Fi Novel “Luray” Introduces New Series Filled With Far-Future Intrigue

In Luray, the far-future science fiction novel that opens the series Behind the Last Gate by Dennis Haupt, we’re introduced to the title character, Luray Ulyssa Cayenne, 31, risk evaluator for SafetyNet. Highly intelligent, skilled and disciplined in her thinking, Luray happens to be the best at her job. So…

Gevera Bert PiedmontApril 27, 2021

Fiction

“The Lost Diary of Anne Frank” Imagines the Final Days of an Extraordinary Young Girl

Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl, first published in 1947, is a universal classic and perhaps the most powerful, important and tragic account of the Nazi occupation of Holland in the early 1940s. It has sold 30 million copies in 67 languages. Some 1.3 million people visit…

Jim AlkonApril 14, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” Explores Humanity and the Ethical Conundrum of AI

“A haunting fable of a lonely, moribund world that is entirely too plausible.” — Kirkus Reviews —∞— “Moving and beautiful … an unequivocal return to form, a meditation in the subtlest shades on the subject of whether our species will be able to live with everything it has created." — The Los…

Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitMarch 2, 2021

Fiction

Urban Fantasy “How to Be a Badass Vigilante” Magically Thwarts LA Crime

Tight leather bodysuit? Check. Sleek getaway motorcycle? Check. Desire to thwart the plans of criminal masterminds and keep the city streets safe? Check, and check. Oh, if only fighting crime was as simple as that, but as readers will discover in Michael Anderle’s How to Be a Badass Vigilante: Book…

Chelsea CicconeFebruary 19, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

Feminist Reimagining of the Old West, “Outlawed” by Anna North, Intrigues Readers

As is fitting for the alternative history genre, the setting of Outlawed (Bloomsbury Publishing) by Anna North plays an essential role in the novel. Though this setting — the Western United States in 1894 — is a real place and time, its premise is entirely fictional. In the world North…

Mary Helen SheriffFebruary 1, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

“Franklin Rock:” The Man Who Could See the Future in the Past

"Franklin Rock is the New Age Candide!" —Jane Stanton Hitchcock, 2020 Hammett Prize winner for Bluff —∞— “A page-turner that leaves you feeling good about the future.” —Donna Brazile —∞— There’s a moment in Franklin Rock when Franklin’s professor tells him, “If you pay attention, you can see the future in…

BookTribJanuary 15, 2021

Young Adult

YA Time Traveler Shows Smarts in Brush With da Vinci

Saving Time does three things extremely well: serves up an engrossing story sure to captivate its targeted teen audience, provides great learning for those teens about STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Math), and beautifully captures the language of this generation to a tee — a language to which…

Jim AlkonDecember 11, 2020

Fiction

Paolini’s SciFi Debut Is a First-Rate First Contact Story With Epic Sweep

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/to-sleep-in-a-sea-of-stars-christopher-paolini.jpg “A powerful piece of SF, with intelligent writing and big ideas.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time “Dazzles with otherworldly delights — and unearthly nightmares.” —Newsweek “This is Paolini's best book so far, skillfully done, brilliantly imagined and cleverly executed." —Starburst Magazine “Sure to be one of the…

Dennis HetzelOctober 8, 2020

Fiction

“A Beginning at the End” Offers a Story of Hope and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic America

“An intimate, surprisingly gentle vision of post-disaster humanity, less concerned with how we might survive than with why — and for whom." — Alix E. Harrow, Hugo Award-winning author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January "An intensely human story about people reaching out through trauma and loss and discovering…

Nikki ErlickSeptember 9, 2020

Fiction Thrillers

Thought-Provoking Supernatural Thriller “The Vessels” Challenges Our Ideas of Forgiveness

Unfinished business — that’s why they say spirits linger on our mortal plane. It’s our soul’s need for not just closure, but resolution that keeps us tethered. So, what if humans could help these souls journey forth into the next life and fill their current existence with purpose? Perhaps it’d…

Chelsea CicconeSeptember 2, 2020

Speculative Thriller “Azalea Bluff” Explores the Human Costs of UFO Cover-Ups

Strange World, Faithful Friends — and Monsters Await “Beneath the Ruins”

“The Book of Bob” Takes You From the Present to the Future in the Blink of an Eye

A Journey Into Inner and Outer Space Awaits in “New Moons: The Seed Songs, Book One”

“Dreamworms” Series Opener Is a Complex and Layered Story of Two Futures

Genetic Engineering Takes a Murderous Turn in the Thriller “Bodies”

Sci-Fi Novel “Luray” Introduces New Series Filled With Far-Future Intrigue

“The Lost Diary of Anne Frank” Imagines the Final Days of an Extraordinary Young Girl

Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” Explores Humanity and the Ethical Conundrum of AI

Urban Fantasy “How to Be a Badass Vigilante” Magically Thwarts LA Crime

Feminist Reimagining of the Old West, “Outlawed” by Anna North, Intrigues Readers

“Franklin Rock:” The Man Who Could See the Future in the Past

YA Time Traveler Shows Smarts in Brush With da Vinci

Paolini’s SciFi Debut Is a First-Rate First Contact Story With Epic Sweep

“A Beginning at the End” Offers a Story of Hope and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic America

Thought-Provoking Supernatural Thriller “The Vessels” Challenges Our Ideas of Forgiveness

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