Not getting enough sunlight can have adverse effects on a person’s psyche. It’s something writer Michael David Ares explores — and takes to the extreme — in his new dystopian thriller Dayfall (hardcover, Kindle). Though in talking to Ares about this sci-fi novel, he explained that the inspiration for his science fiction story wasn’t exposure to sunlight, but exposure to someone else’s classic tale.
In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, sales of such dystopian novels as Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and George Orwell’s 1984 spiked. Though if you’ve already read them, but still need something dark to sooth your soul, I present Tropic Of Kansas (paperback, digital, audiobook), a new dystopia sci-fi novel by writer Christopher Brown.
Since there seems to be a new Star Wars book every week, you’d be excused if you mistook Nik Korpon’s new novel The Rebellion’s Last Traitor (paperback, digital) for being yet another story about Luke and Leia and The Force. But in talking to him about it, it’s clear that this dystopian crime novel is less inspired by Han Solo, and more by another Harrison Ford movie.