A richly imagined tale of cowboys, aliens, and an ethnographic clash of cultures, Starmen by Francis Hamit is a genre-bending adventure with enough historical touchstones to brilliantly blur the line between fact and fiction. In this slightly alternate universe, legendary anthropologist [...]
Bitter enemies become unlikely allies and chart a new course for the shattered remnants of humanity in The End of the World: Rise of the After Lord by H.S. Gilchrist, a stunning work of genre-bending sci-fi. Cut off from the mind-controlling [...]
Romance, religion, and familial duties clash in Leigh Grant's historical novel, Mask of Dreams, a 15th century drama centered on the fates of two unlikely loners. Imprisoned in a life she never asked for, the rebellious Caterina is far from the [...]
A satirical romp through the mind of a muddled nation, told through the eyes of an undercover alien leader, Daft Mejora's Infinite Madness (Or, How to Travel Near America with Friends) by Karl Dehmelt is a scathing piece of trenchant brilliance. [...]
The rare kind of memoir that makes one forget it's not a novel, From Bonham to Buddha and Back Again: The Slow Enlightenment of the Hard Rock Drummer by Clementine Moss is an exhilarating and enlightening read. Slowly revealing the autobiographical [...]
A touching tale of brotherly devotion and the life-altering consequences of war, In the Shadow of the Sun by Poli Flores Jr. is an outback California drama that echoes across small-town American life. In the shifting cultural landscape of the Vietnam [...]
Thrilling, well-paced, and surprisingly dark, Naked Came the Detective is Glendall C. Jackson III’s beautifully written debut novel with a noir soul. A highly intelligent escort is the fascinating detective in this story in which sex, love, despair, and power mix [...]
Luring readers into a carefully crafted tale of supernatural mystery, author James McKenna delivers a profoundly puckish novel in An October's Journey: Poe's Final Gift. On October 1, 1849, on the occasion of his 22nd birthday, Jonathan Brandt's party is graced [...]
With this stunning observational record of the natural world, poet Robert J. Tiess has curated a brilliant collection in May We Learn From the Earth: Nature Poems and Reflections on the Environment. A self-described ecopoet with a remarkable eye for the [...]
An instantly immersive story of innocence lost and justice miscarried, Karl Myers by Jeff Lee is a patiently profound piece of 1950s fiction - a visceral, dark, and poignant drama, which offers a snapshot of a sinister time that America has [...]