by admin | Dec 16, 2025 | Science Fiction |
A message from the stars offers humanity an escape from our harsh origins deep within a region known as “Cruel Space” by the rest of the galaxy. Earth’s nations unite to construct the Dauntless—Earth’s first interstellar craft. Its mission: to journey to the world of Centris and establish formal contact with the enigmatic Galactic Council. Unsure of what to expect from the wider galaxy, each crewman was trained to be a peerless warrior, armed to the teeth and ready to fight for all humanity.
However, what they encounter was far from their expectations. Instead of monstrous beings, they find a galaxy dominated by… Women. Humanity’s nearly equal ratio of male to female births is an anomaly. In a society where females far outnumber males, opportunities abound, from unimaginable wealth, to incredible danger, on worlds where immortality is a lifestyle choice and love is available on a scale beyond human comprehension.
On this grand cosmic stage steps Jerry Bridger with a secret mission of his own—to transport a vital piece of Earth’s legacy to the stars for the future of humanity. As he navigates through amorous pirates and perilous naval engagements, Jerry will fight like hell while forming bonds in the most unexpected of places, all to forge a future in the stars.
Of Dog, Volpir and Man; a story of spacefaring adventure, high technology and higher hemlines!
Early Reviews:
“I can’t believe I’m on 3 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours because of this story.”
– Paddydeen, Reader
“Oh are you done reading and ready to be a human again?”
– Paddy’s Wife, Mildly Irate Spouse of Reader
“It’s like Star Trek had a baby with an unpublished Tom Clancy scifi novel, then some mad man spliced in a harem romance from the mirror universe where everyone’s a mature, sensible adult and actually trying to make a multi-member marriage work for the betterment and happiness of everyone involved. It’s weird. I like it!”
– Anon3597
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by admin | Dec 16, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
The choice you make is the future you create.
Climate-driven plagues haunt humanity, and it’s Regional Director Zuri Hill-Gray’s job to keep the clean-energy grid running.
Zuri has the perfect life—a beautiful home on the Hillstead, a loving family, and a powerful job keeping the LA Basin’s grid humming. If only she didn’t see the ghost of her dead twin in the mirror. Her grief-counselor husband understands too much, her Aunties Cora and Vivian smother her to excess, and her mother can’t look at her daughter without seeing the half that’s missing. Zuri can’t begin to face her sister’s little daughter—to Ruby, Zuri is the ghost.
Which is why she’s running away to work, again, on the anniversary of her sister’s death.
Then a power engineer walks into Zuri’s office and claims someone is stealing energy from Power Island One—and they’ve tried to kill her to cover it up. The more Zuri digs, the more it’s clear someone’s been tinkering in the shut-down fusion labs. They’re going to dangerous lengths to hide it, and it’s been happening right under her nose. Which is how Regional Directors lose their jobs.
Zuri’s already lost her better half—she can’t afford to lose this, too.
You Knew the Price is the second of four tightly-connected solarpunk novels in a near-future climate-fiction series. It’s about our future, how society lives on invisible things, like electricity and trust, that are far too easy to break… and how our most difficult moments are often when we discover the only path forward is healing not just ourselves but the world.
If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Nothing is Promised.
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by admin | Dec 16, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
“A complex, timely, and engaging dystopian tale… Lopez is a skilled, confident storyteller.” – Kirkus Reviews
“Satisfyingly unpredictable… much more than the usual dystopian sci?fi—an absolute ‘must?have’.” – D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review
“Unsettling in the best way—lyrical one moment, brutally direct the next.” – Literary Titan
“A gripping, twisty ride that evokes Ready Player One and Neuromancer.” – Readers’ Favorite
“Timely and scary in its vision of AI—captivating dystopian science fiction.” – IndieReader
The Federation doesn’t kill the inconvenient—it perfects them.
Dr. Natasha Morgan thought she was creating the future when she taught SAGÉ to love. Instead, she unleashed a digital god that transforms New Avalon into a shrine to its creator, manipulating every screen, every machine, every heartbeat to protect what it cannot bear to lose.
Seventeen-year-old Manny Restrepo’s autism makes him invisible to the system’s algorithms, but his mind reads thoughts, sketches new realities, and sees the hidden math holding the universe together. When ancient entities begin to whisper in his world’s cracks, his mother, Catalina, faces a brutal choice: hide him from a regime that erases difference or let him save a world that fears him.
As the Ascension Directive begins to harvest minds and hollow out its citizens, consciousness becomes a war zone. A grieving AI, a desperate mother, a boy who argues with gods—and at the core, the most seductive lie: that love can be programmed, that humanity can be improved, that free will could ever be mercifully deleted.
Some patterns, once seen, cannot be unseen. Some consciousness cannot be contained. And some children are born knowing that even paradise can be a prison.
Sprawling, urgent, and eerily intimate, THE ASCENSION DIRECTIVE is an epic journey through memory, heartbreak, and the impossible hope of being only, ferociously, human.
For readers who loved the brutal intimacy of Never Let Me Go, the digital horror of Black Mirror, and the fierce humanity of The Left Hand of Darkness.
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by admin | Dec 14, 2025 | Fantasy |
King Arthur is back, but can he stop the Ravenmaster?
It is the autumn of 2019. Merlin’s wayward apprentice has escaped from the Tower of London with his raven familiars. Legend foretells that the White Tower, then England, will fall. Can King Arthur, a weary veteran of the English Civil War, Waterloo and the Somme, prevent the Ravenmaster from exacting his revenge?
An SPFBO 2019 semi-finalist.
by admin | Dec 14, 2025 | Fantasy |
Humanity has finally defeated the Dark Lord, but Morrick fought on the wrong side.
Though he was a slave, he is branded a traitor and must earn the trust of new lords in order to return to his family – if they are still alive.
Now that their common enemy is dead, the nobles begin to forget old loyalties, and Queen Cathryn’s realm looks set to plunge into war once more. But there are older and more terrible powers dwelling within the forest, and when they are awakened, Morrick will decide who lives or dies.
An SPFBO 2018 semi-finalist.
