Future Tense: Eleven First-In-Series Young Adult SciFi Novels

by Susan Kaye Quinn

From eleven USA Today, Amazon and award-winning authors comes Future Tense, an electrifying YA sci-fi boxed set. Inventive first-in-series with trans-humans, sexy alien romance, cyborg gunslingers, unusual dolphin research, time travel, computer games with doors into faerie realms, mind readers, eternal life adventures, extraordinarily gifted teens and so much more. Available for a limited time.

Books included:

Susan Kaye Quinn's OPEN MINDS When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.
Vincent Trigil's THE ENEMY OF AN ENEMY In a universe of science and magic a new hero will arise.
Anthea Sharp's FEYLAND: THE DARK REALM When a high-tech computer game opens a gateway to the treacherous Realm of Faerie, only two teen gamers can save the mortal world.
Catherine Stine's FIRESEED ONE What if only your very worst enemy could help you save the world?
PK Hrezo's DIARY OF A TEENAGE TIME TRAVELER Welcome to Butterman Travel, Inc., where time is always in your hands.
Patti Larsen'sDIDI AND THE GUN SLINGER When an Underlord kidnaps her father, Didi Duke resurrects an obsolete cyborg gunslinger to rescue him.
Lisa Nowak'sTHE McCALL INITIATIVE EPISODE 1.1: DECEPTION What if the Pacific Northwest seceded from United States? In 2063, it has.
Rose Garcia's FINAL LIFE Multiple past lives she can't remember, an enemy driven to finish his task. Can Dominique survive her final life or will she die for the last time?
Magan Vernon's DEFY THE STARS What happens when an awkward teen girl falls for an alien boy?
Amy Evans' CLICKS -THE DOLPHIN PROPHECY An inspiring Cli-Fi romance about an island off the coast of California where the dolphins and the lifeguards have more in common than they know.
Lee Strauss' PERCEPTION Eternal Life is to Die For.

Genres: Science Fiction, Collections, Anthologies, Young Adult

2677 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 7, 2015

About the author

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Susan Kaye Quinn has designed aircraft engines and researched global warming, but now she uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works range from hopeful climate fiction to gritty cyberpunk. Sue believes being gentle and healing is radical and disruptive. Her short fiction can be found in Grist, Solarpunk Magazine, Reckoning, and all her novels and short stories can be found on her website. She is the host of the Bright Green Futures podcast.

SOLARPUNK
collections
Bright Green Futures: 2024 (edited by SKQ)
Halfway to Better

novels
Nothing is Promised series
When You Had Power
You Knew The Price
Of Kindness and Kilowatts
Yet You Cry When It Hurts

short stories
A Moon Goddess to Watch Over Me (Luna Station Quarterly) (hopepunk)
It's in the Blood (Reckoning 8)
Once and Future Kilowatts (Solarpunk Magazine)
Rewilding Indiana (Little Blue Marble)
Seven Sisters (Grist)
The Joy Fund (DreamForge Magazine)

SCI-FI
Singularity Novel Series
The Legacy Human
The Duality Bridge
The Illusory Prophet
The Last Mystic

Stories of Singularity
Restore
Containment
Augment
Awakening
Harvest
Defiance
Resistance

YA SF
Mindjack Series
Open Minds
Closed Hearts
Free Souls
Locked Tight
Cracked Open
Broken Wide
Mindjack Short Story Collection

WATCH the award-winning live-action Mindjack Book Trailer!

STEAMPUNK ROMANCE
Royals of Dharia
Third Daughter
Second Daughter
First Daughter

CYBERPUNK
Debt Collector
LIRIUM (Season One)
WRAITH (Season Two)

WATCH the Debt Collector Book Trailer

ANTHOLOGIES
Synchronic
Telepath Chronicles
AI Chronicles
Dark Beyond The Stars
Future Chronicles
Cyborg Chronicles
CLONES: The Anthology

MIDDLE GRADE FANTASY
Faery Swap

WATCH the Faery Swap Book Trailer

CONTACT SUSAN
Susan's Website | Sue on Bluesky | Sue on Mastodon
Susan's Email: sue@twistedspacepub.com

Reviews

[James]

Definitely for the young adult reader. However many of the stories were good enough to hold the attention of the senior reader and several I may continue reading the series. Only one story was too firmly aimed at young adults that I skipped the novel after a few chapters. I recommend this book for all those who enjoy SciFi with young characters.

[History_and_scfi_buff · Rating 3 out of 5]

not bad

[Lauren]

OVERALL:

Susan Kaye Quinn's OPEN MINDS - 2.5 Stars
Kira Moore is a zero, she cannot communicate telepathically and link minds with all of the people around her. She is looked down on by the rest of society and is a social pariah. The day she meets Simon everything changes. Kira realizes that she is actually a mind jacker and can get other people to do what she wants, not only that but she is more powerful than most other jackers making her that much more dangerous to everyone.

Interesting concept for the future of evolutionary change where people no longer have to talk to one another. Kinda makes you think about what your brain can do.

I was interested in the story at first but it quickly became boring for me. There was too much going on in such a short period of time that I started to lose interest in what was actually happening.

Vincent Trigil's THE ENEMY OF AN ENEMY

Anthea Sharp's FEYLAND: THE DARK REALM - 3 Stars
When lines are blurred between reality and gaming, Tam Linn discovers that a game can turn into a different realm making him the hero of the show. As his world is turned upside down (for the better) Tam is tasked with helping the rich-girl Jennet pushing their limited in the Dark Realm of the Fairyland.

The world building the author is able to create was fun and inventive with the characters flowing in and adding to the concept. I thought the rich girl, poor boy kind of thing was a little overdone with the characters styles but overall I found them to be well developed.

Catherine Stine's FIRESEED ONE
PK Hrezo's DIARY OF A TEENAGE TIME TRAVELER
Patti Larsen's DIDI AND THE GUN SLINGER
Cidney Swanson's SAVING MARS
Lisa Nowak's THE McCALL INITIATIVE EPISODE 1.1
Rose Garcia's FINAL LIFE
Magan Vernon's HOW TO DATE AN ALIEN
Amy Evans' CLICKS -THE DOLPHIN PROPHECY
Lee Strauss' PERCEPTION

[Rodney J Going · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great collection of stories. I recommend this as a must read for everyone. The stories were suspenseful but overall positive. I enjoyed the variety and marvelled at the subjects addressed. Well done everyone!


I would have to recommend this series to everyone. Read and enjoy. The science is sound enough to carry you along with the characters and see things through their eyes.

[Diane Gilman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow what a books

I enjoyed reading them they're really mind-boggling thrilling and downright interesting I enjoyed them very much and gave me a really big thrill to understand the logic of the words really got me going thank you very much

[Erin Brooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of fun

These books are full of:

1. Boys and girls who are attracted to . . .

2. A conflict that has no easy solution.

3. A solution to said problem.

Will these people be together or separate?

Enjoy!!

[lisa michaels · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good mixed in with bad

There's twelve novels to choose from but only a few really good ones. Skip around until you get to one you like.

[MRC Undertaker · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is wonderful!