A lethal warrior without banner or cause rises to heights of heroism he never sought in The Hunter’s Rede by F.T. McKinstry, a dark and thoroughly fun new fantasy saga. Tapping into the best elements of high-genre writing, with cryptic wizards, [...]
For anyone who has ever dreamed of our species' future among the stars, Humanity's Greatest Leap: The Science and Technology Behind Feasible Interstellar Space Travel by Charles Mark Pickrell will be a revealing and inspiring look at our world's potential. This [...]
A whirlwind of an adventure set in the eternally mysterious city of London, The Timepiece and the Girl Who Went Astray by O.R. Simmonds is a bold and meticulously penned thriller. William Wells only wanted a special gift for his girlfriend [...]
Five boys meet and unite, drawn together by their innate spirit of defiance and determination, while each harbors secrets too horrible to mention that will gradually be revealed, in The Buzz Boys by novelist Edward Izzi, a powerful look at abuse [...]
Take a raucous ride through endless space, dark humor, and epic strangeness with The Doomsday Machine (Space Scrap 17 Book 1), a wild debut novel from Erick Drake. Magicians, alien war machines, spiteful coalescing gods, and one fearless scrap scavenger collide [...]
A skillfully layered whodunit created by mystery writer Edward Izzi, When a Rook Takes the Queen arrays multiple dirty deeds and numerous potential suspects in the chaotically crime-worn city of Chicago. The city’s first black, female, and openly gay mayor, Janice [...]
This novel sort of does you in. That could be the whole review, if I did not write reviews for a living. It's like when you are served a cup of coffee and you get tea, and it tastes weird, although [...]
A faux-autobiographical story of a frustrated middle-aged writer and his pending breakdown explores despotism in all its forms. This offering from British novelist Hari Kunzru pulls at the threads of a crumbling world to discover we've been in this special hell [...]
Claire Fuller's disturbing new novel about life on the edge of society, Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction 2021, delivers a new side to the English writer in this pared-back story of destitute siblings finding their way. Fuller has always [...]
Author and music journalist Edwin Ammerlaan brings readers on the tour of a lifetime with Lost Souls: A Fictional Journey Through 50 Years of Pink Floyd. This magical slice of history collides a fictional protagonist with real-life rock stars and celebrities, [...]