Pinche, a smuggler working for Colombian drug lords, had fallen out of favor with his bosses, an outcome of failures in his operations. Given a last chance to redeem himself, Pinche is tasked with smuggling a group of immigrants, alongside “merchandise”, through the Gap, a...

The Curtain Between Us by Jenny Liang is a Christian dystopian novel that follows several characters as they are forced to face the collapse or aftermath of human civilization, the losses this incurs, and their connections with the divine, sacred, or supernatural. Hagar, a young...

The Consent of Shadows by Naza Semoniff is a frightening narrative about a dystopia that feels eerily familiar. Jack Aldren appears at the start as a conscientious citizen, dutifully following his role as a city bureaucrat, going through the motions of meaningless repetition, while deeply...

Time and Space by Shireen Jeejeebhoy tells the story of Time, a forty-year-old woman living an ordinary life in Toronto. One day, she is abducted by youths from the future, forever altering her destiny as she knows it. Carried across centuries, Time finds herself trapped...

The Convergence Chronicles: Cyber Inference by Eric Yocam is about Cy Quinn, a cyber quantum researcher who, along with his team, JT and Tari, is working on an AI project. The team seems to be making great progress in artificial consciousness as they create Ramsey...

David R. Beshears' The Caravan follows the story of a close-knit group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic America. Human civilization has fallen. Cities have been abandoned, while different groups of marauders have claimed various small territories for themselves. The Carver family caravan in the Northern...

It had been seven months since the Violent People Flu (VFP), a mutated form of a deadly virus, had hit the world, and a lot had happened. Michael and Madeline had helped establish a community of dozens of survivors in Binoomeal, a town secluded from...

The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust by Tak Salmastyan is a well-written dystopian novel about a world ravaged by a dangerous virus outbreak. It follows Ethan, a 15-year-old boy whose brother Leo is infected with the virus. Ethan, who is emotionally shaken, promises to save...

The Final Shelter is a dystopian mystery by Rob Ramos. The world order has collapsed. Cities are overpopulated, power cuts have become normal, riots are common, and citizens live amid poverty and squalor, barring a privileged few who live in protected areas. Phoebe Jones, a...

After the mass shooting of July 2020, a disastrous event orchestrated by angry extraterrestrials on Earth, human beings had signed ‘The Pledge’, a peace treaty of sorts, to help make peace with the extraterrestrials. Now, five years later, a lot has changed on Earth for...