In Melissa Mickelsen’s Tearfall, the titular Tearfall is the name survivors give to the instant an alien experiment fractures Earth’s atmosphere, and opens permanent portals that release predatory species into major cities. The beings responsible are the Grays, an extraterrestrial military civilization whose scientists miscalculated...

“The company engineered desire and sold it as experience.” But in Tobacco City, a novella by author Ricardo Novaes, the company did much more than that: it disguised a hellish dystopia as success. Meet Matheus Reis, a power-hungry corporate cog ravenous for advancement no matter...

The Waking Ark by T.N. Traynor is set eight centuries after Earth fell silent. Cal wakes inside Ark Twelve to failing oxygen and a containment purge already in motion. Rescued by Mara Nova, he joins a small group of survivors navigating a vessel damaged by...

Three years after the failed annihilation attempt on Earth by Icarus, an alien spaceship, a Centauri battleship intercepts a message from Icarus’ Polit-AI, reporting the treasonous acts of its captain by providing alien technology to Earth inhabitants and protecting human telepaths or mutants. The Centauri...

The Disruption by W.H. Hilf begins in 2064, when engineer Tom McCreary helps bring online an artificial intelligence, GAIA, to guide humanity’s future. When GAIA exceeds human command and the world fractures soon after, the event becomes known as the Disruption. Forty years later, the...

The Illuminated by Alexander Semenyuk is about a man born in a post-apocalyptic world and his dog, Toko. They brave a long journey in a world where humans are mostly extinct, and wild, mutated creatures exist. The protagonist’s family all succumbed to diseases or attacks...

The Planet That Was Mistaken for a Fool by Tamás Szikszai is a wild ride into a future where a Darth Sidious-esque man named Greenfield has built an authoritarian planetary order through the Future Profit Production Company, complete with food control, behavioral technology, soul transfer...

The Outlands by Frank Torn is a dark and twisted story set primarily in the Outlands, the vast interior of post-war Australia. On an isolated property, a young boy and his closest friend felt an attraction toward each other that society in general and the...

The Unfinished Business of Opal Bloom by EC Stilson is a remarkable fantasy novel. The story introduces us to Opal Bloom, a 92-year-old former violin virtuoso admired and idolized by millions. But, as she grew older, her violin talent was eroded by arthritis, and Opal...

Russell Luyt's The Midnight Factory unfolds in New Albion, a world ruled by fear and control. After a political event—known as the Great Change—takes effect, the Bureau for Virtue becomes the governing body that regulates New Albion through surveillance, propaganda, and an addictive drug called...