Twist by Alan S. Kolok
When Iowa State University environmental science professor Alex Pendergraf reads about a horrific mass murder in Stockton, California, his scientific curiosity is piqued. Could the killer’s rage be somehow related…
Castle in Water by Cassia Green
Mica Lavoui is a typical 17-year-old in the year 2203. It’s a world embedded in fear of superbugs and diseases. The city she lives in, however, has adapted to deal…
Connor’s Gambit by Z Gottlieb
Brad Johnson, a lone witness to a UFO sighting becomes an alien target and quickly finds himself on an off world adventure, relying on his skills to survive an intergalactic…
A Point of Honor by Dorothy J. Heydt
A world-renowned knight in the virtual reality land of “Chivalry,” Mary de Courcy sees her fantasy and real worlds collide when someone attempts to kill her after she wins the…
Columbus Day by Craig Alanson
Expeditionary Force Book 1 We were fighting on the wrong side, of a war we couldn’t win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day….
Blitzball by Barton Ludwig
When a teenage boy discovers he was cloned to be Hitler, he must fight his genes, family and upbringing to choose a different path in a school where soccer symbolizes…
Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that…
The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency) Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible―until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in…
The Municipalists by Seth Fried
In Metropolis, the gleaming city of tomorrow, the dream of the great American city has been achieved. But all that is about to change, unless a neurotic, rule-following bureaucrat and…
Prey by Michael Crichton
Deep in the Nevada desert, the Xymos Corporation has built a state-of-the-art fabrication plant, surrounded by miles and miles of nothing but cactus and coyotes. Eight people are trapped. A…
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars Trilogy For centuries, the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet has beckoned to humankind. Now a group of one hundred colonists begins a mission whose ultimate goal is…
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Hyperion Cantos On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear…
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender”…
Dune Mass by Frank Herbert
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides—who would become known as Muad’Dib—and of a great family’s ambition to bring to fruition humankind’s…
1984 by George Orwell
Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to…
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—a dark…