The planet New Galveston has been terraformed and it is Alan Decker’s job to inspect the work and diagnose problems-and New Galveston has problems. An unstable sandy area has appeared and is spreading uncomfortably close to a colonized town. In addition, there are tubes beginning to push through the sandy area, and Alan almost loses his life in an accident when a platform collapses. Read More »

Alex Romanov is a spesh, a human that has been genetically modified. Alex’s specialty is as a pilot spesh, an ability that allows him to care for the lives of his crew and passengers above all else. His first mission after he recovers from an accident that could have taken his life is to pilot the ship, Mirror, and take two non-human Zzygou on a tour of human planets. Read More »

As the wife of the Vice President and ambassador in her own right, there are all sorts of things Kitty Martini is supposed to do. Insulting the Australian Prime Minister and causing an international crisis is not one of those things. Luckily, Kitty’s various experiences make her a pro at handling a crisis, but she never imagined that a bit of comic interference would be the way to solve her problem. Of course, Kitty never realized that it was also possible to trade places with one of her cosmic alternates who also has a problem. Read More »

Jessica Drake has always been a vivid dreamer. Though her dreams inspire her intricate artwork, she only shares the details of them with her younger brother, Tommy. Then one day, while she is at at school, she gets a cryptic text from Tommy who stayed home from school with “gamer’s fever” after pulling an all-nighter. He tells her that someone has been snooping around the house. Read More »

Vampire Syndrome by Daven Anderson is the story of Jack Wendell, a young man with Down Syndrome who is bitten by a rabid vampire. With this bite, Jack is yanked out of his comfortable world and thrown into the battle between human vampires and the alien vampire species known as Pures. The human vampires scoff at the way popular fiction portrays them, since they are not the undead, they can eat anything they want, and they cannot fly or levitate. They do, however, have superhuman Read More »

There is a plague loose in Babylon, which is what the near future New York is being called. Dr. Morgan Sterling is a junior pathologist doing autopsies, but she is driving herself hard to find a cure for this Manhattan Virus. Morgan places her faith in science, the answer can always be found if one works hard enough. When she opens one of the autopsy bags and finds a dead guy inside with wings she just assumes there’s a plausible reason. Until dead guy’s brother shows up with his own wings. Read More »

One year after the event of Alien Research, American-Centurion is still healing, trying to recover all of the data lost when Chernobog hacked them, and figure out what is wrong with the Imagers. What is worse and so completely typical, Jeff Martini has been tapped for the Vice Presidential nomination. While the very idea terrifies Kitty, she realizes what everyone around her already knows-the other ticket winning would be indefinitely scarier. Read More »

Princess Olivia of Andromeda will do anything to avoid her arranged marriage to a greedy prince from a neighboring planet, including running the night before her wedding. But not all is as it seems on board the Hummingbird. Captain Roy and the rest of the crew are the best con-artist in several galaxies, and rescuing princess is just a small part of their greater mission.
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Daimones starts off by reminding the reader of the actual deaths of thousands of birds and fish all around the world over the past several years that have gone unresolved. But in this book, there is a definite reason why.

Dan Amenta had recently been fired from his job and was taking his daughter to school one morning when they noticed all of the crashes on the road, everybody dead. Read More »

Riggs is a retired intelligence officer who just wants a little peace and quiet. Still mourning the loss of his wife, his only desire is to be left alone. After being coerced into one last mission by the government, he is about to make a discovery that will change his entire belief system. But will he come out the other side better or worse? Read More »

For romance fans looking for something unique, Strange Little Band will be right up their alley. This story has main characters that would make fine villains in a more conventional romantic story.
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All Kitty Katt-Martini wanted was a normal day out with her daughter-well, as normal as a day in her life can be. Anti-alien protesters, corporate scheming, and the FBI’s concern over a alien-linked super-drug are the least of Kitty and American Centurion’s concerns. Area 51 and Dulce both go radio-silent while a large portion of the A-C security team are supposed to be on a training exercise at those locations, and the entirety of the AC computer system is hacked by someone who is supposed to be a myth. Read More »

The Puritan Vampire’s long reign of terror had brutalized several members of the Hardigan family, beginning with Colleen, who was murdered but whose body had been recovered by the Zogones, aliens with the advanced technology to not only save Colleen’s unborn child but also to reincarnate her life force years later. Colleen’s husband Brian, a Zogone scientist, had himself cryogenically frozen until he was able to return to Colleen once she was reborn.
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This is a series of short stories written by Philip Jose Farmer. Science Fiction stories, they concern humans and their interaction with aliens set in futuristic settings.

In The Lovers Hal Yarrow hates his life. He is a Jack Of All Trades in the discipline of linguistics, following various master’s work so he can share important information with those to Read More »

Jecis Lukas runs a circus that doesn’t have the usual animals for show—his has aliens in cages, male and female Otherworlders from different planets. And even though aliens are a known thing on Earth and allowed to live here peacefully, they are still different enough that humans would pay a good price to view them. Jecis has his daughter, Vika, in charge of the feeding and handling of these beasts. Read More »

Firmly entrenched in DC, Kitty, Jeff and the rest of the AC Diplomatic Mission are dealing with the newest crisis: since the interstellar invasion event in the previous book, Alien vs. Alien, the general public now knows there are aliens here on Earth. The hate groups, political intrigue, and new political structure that openly acknowledges aliens are the least of American Centurion’s problems. The newest representative from New Mexico is murdered while attending a party at the Read More »

Kitty, Jeff, and the rest of the American Centurion Diplomatic Corps are back and still adjusting to the hustle and bustle of DC. When dirty pictures surface it seems tame compared to past emergencies, but events quickly spiral out of control. Strange gifts from Alpha Centari, killer androids, escalating international tensions, and new alliances keep Kitty busy, but when Jeff and Chuckie go missing Kitty gets down to business and not even an intergalactic threat will stop her from finding her men. Read More »

Rising Darkness is the first a new series by Thea Harrison that has a different vibe than her Elder Races novels. Mary has dreams that keep her awake, she feels different and alone, and is going crazy hearing voices on the wind. When her ex-husband insists Mary go to a doctor for the problems, she decides to skip it and drives off, unknowingly saving her own life. It is this decision that propels her towards Michael — a man she feels connected to, and who finally explains who she is and what that means for both of them. Read More »

Heaven’s Shadow takes place in 2019, the near future. NASA and a joint operation between Russia, India, and Brazil both launch explorations of a Near Earth Object (a celestial body that has come into orbit with Earth) that is 100 km in diameter. Zack Stewart had to miss out the last NASA launch when his wife was killed in a car accident, so this launch means even more to him. He is doing it for the memory of Megan, his dead wife, and for his daughter, Rachel. One of his accompanying astronauts, Tea Nowinsky, is now is girlfriend, although they keep things strictly business while on the launch.
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Morgan returns with her latest edition into her thrilling Paladins series with The Darkness Beyond, the book centered around the young cyber-whiz Paladin, D.J. Clayborne. D.J. has been a constant presence in the series, and it is high time that he receive his own book—and heroine.
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