As we all (unfortunately) know, some people can be really superficial. But in the world of Joma West’s dystopian cyberpunk sci-fi novel Face (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), people take it to such extremes that even touching ...CONTINUE
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Usually when there’s a mysterious stranger who doesn’t talk, they’re the kind of person who kills everyone but the lone virgin girl who normally would’ve stayed home, but her friend insisted and, well, you know… But in Ty Drago’s ...CONTINUE
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As the sci-fi loving son of a grade school science teacher, I’ve long lamented that our missions to the moon ended after only six trips. And no, not just because I’d love to eat a breakfast burrito while hopping ...CONTINUE
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In his ongoing series The Galactic Cold War, writer Dan Moren injects elements of sci-fi and space opera into spy stories. Or should that be the other way around? In the following email interview, he discusses what inspired ...CONTINUE
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When it comes to putting together their first short story collections, some writers start out with a theme or a plan and stick to it. Then there’s writers like Izzy Wasserstein, who, in assembling hers, All The Hometowns You ...CONTINUE
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With Primeval Fire (hardcover, paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer C.T. Rwizi is concluding the science fantasy trilogy he began in 2020 with Scarlet Odyssey and continued a year later with Requiem Moon. In the ...CONTINUE
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As the co-founder and editor for eSpec Books, Danielle Ackley-McPhail has overseen all of the entries in the Systema Paradoxa series of novellas about cryptids. But now, after eleven previous entries, she’s taking matters into her own hands with ...CONTINUE
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War…war never changes. Which may be why some people are just happier when there’s a war. Such is the problem facing the crew of the Starlight’s Shadow in Jessie Mihalik’s sci-fi space opera trilogy of the same name. ...CONTINUE
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Don’t you hate it when you get hired to be the enforcer for the ruler of a corrupt city-state, but the new job requires you to have magic that’s flesh binding, and will thus kill you if you do ...CONTINUE
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