The novel “The Lost Colony” by A.G. Riddle was published for the first time in 2019. It’s the third book in The Long Winter trilogy and follows “The Solar War”.

A group of survivors try to create a new city where human civilization can be reborn. Some environmental problems must be addressed and the mystery of what happened to the humans who had already attempted to create a colony remains, as they seem to have disappeared into thin air.

James Sinclair searches for traces of the missing colonists but finds spheres buried underground. Is there a connection between the spheres and the lost colony? His search is made more difficult by the fact that he doesn’t know how much he can trust the android Arthur, especially when the answers it provides are far from clear.

The novel “Recursion” by Blake Crouch was published for the first time in 2019.

2018. Detective Barry Sutton intervenes in an attempt to save Ann Voss Peters, a woman suffering from False Memory Syndrome (FMS). Unfortunately, he’s unable to convince her to desist from her suicidal intentions and decides to deepen his knowledge of a syndrome that started affecting many people. This leads him to discover unexpected truths.

2007. Helena Smith is a neuroscientist who is conducting research about memory in the hope of finding a cure for her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, and for all people in the same condition. In order to achieve the developments she desires, she needs large funding, and the billionaire Marcus Slade offers to pay for her research. This allows Helena to obtain significant developments that, however, go in a very different direction from the one she imagined.

The novel “Zona III: Foundation” by Fred G. Baker was published for the first time in 2023. It’s the third book in the Zona series and follows “Zona II: Sabertooth Uprising”.

Grant Taylor and his group of explorers return to St. Petersburg after their time in Zona. They meet with Boris Ustinov to discuss the status of the foundation created to protect the Zona and how best to keep it secret. Unfortunately, among the people who have received samples of plants that exist only in Zona is Victor Romashin, who wants to exploit them and to do so intends to conduct an independent expedition.

The situation has become complicated but the people who support the secrecy around Zona intend to prevent anyone else from discovering its location. There’s another area where the new expedition can be directed but the dire wolves that inhabit Zona are afraid of it because they’re convinced that there are deadly presences there.

The novel “The Microcolony” by Gordon Williams was published for the first time in 1979. It’s the second book in the Micronauts trilogy and follows “The Micronauts”.

When David Gudenian goes to a tunnel that very few people know about to have some intimacy with Magda Hoessner, he discovers that a fox is dangerously close to the colony. He decides to risk punishment by revealing the danger but his warning is not taken into account and he risks coming to a bad end.

Seeing his situation, David Gudenian decides to rebel and escapes with other people who were prisoners for various violations of the colony’s rules after finding Magda. The new group must venture into a wild territory while in the colony there’s a power struggle. The discovery that Magda is the most important woman in the colony changes everything.