Science Fiction Book Reviews

A sharp-tongued satire on progressive utopias and species salvation, The Pystead Group: Daring to Be by James Pryor is a thought-provoking prophecy for the coming generation.

Thirty years in the future, the foundations of global society are fracturing, but a secretive cabal of researchers, dreamers, and futurists working for The Pystead Group has a plan for humanity’s redemption. Philip Russell unexpectedly lands a job with this enigmatic organization on its Caribbean island base, plunging him into a conspiratorial tangle of allegiance, advancement, and the intellectual dishonesty of American culture. Navigating the high-stakes battlefield of this philosophical playground and pseudo-utopia, Philip […]

The third stellar novel in Tom Kranz’s Earth-Moon Rescue series, Hack Rescue: Chasing A Cyber Killer is a high-stakes hunt for a vengeful cyber-villain determined to bring a young lunar colony to its knees.

Inexplicable system failures are pushing the population of the Dome to a breaking point, and saving the day once again falls to Chairman Rick and his adorably curious android daughter, Peach. From foul waste management crises and explosive terrorist attacks to robotic suicides and hyper-modern malfunctions, time is rapidly running out for the father-daughter team to keep their moon-bound community safe.

The off-world setting is brilliantly […]

A spectacular third act to the Reign of the North Forest saga, Defiant Dominion by Athene Z. Adam is an off-world allegory in a far-flung future.

The crash landing of a starship and two aliens from Earth has sent a shockwave through the childlike population of Eiyesia. Rather than arriving as a harbinger of a third war with their ancestral planet, Dr. Alex Nymaria and his brilliant mind may be the key to solving the arrested development of the Antisenents. However, not everyone on Eiyesia sees a permanent cure for this “disease” as a good thing, including King Drimys, putting […]