Readings from New Fiction

In Brian Bandell‘s novel, Silence the Living, a former police officer carries in her bloodstream the most deadly substance on the planet, an intelligent alien microorganism that seeks to transform Earth into a habitat suitable for their aquatic species, which fled their destroyed planet. Judith Guskin‘s historical novel, of friendship, love, religious conflicts, politics, and war, Longing to Be Free: The Bear, the Eagle and the Crown, is set in 1630-1677 in colonial New England and London.