Augmented Reality by A.R. Milton describes a dystopian world of BioCyber warfare. Headed by twin brothers, an organization had taken over society by means of an AI-driven web, becoming The Eternal Intelligence Entity (E.I.E). Designed to rule the world, it played on human desires, persuading...

In Tom Strelich’s Mustard Seed, after President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, selected American families are secretly transported into Mustard Seed, a vast underground city beneath the hills outside Bakersfield that is built to preserve civilization during an expected nuclear war. Gill Hill grows up...

Into the Dax by Bob Welch follows Kiley, a systems engineer working with pollination drones in an agricultural region, whose routine changes when hostile machines destroy her network and target her directly. A recorded message from her father, Lucas Van, a scientist in hiding, reveals...

In the anthology Undercity by Monte Schulz, we primarily move alongside Marco Grenelle, through a city consumed by fire after a coordinated attack forces the residents into flight. He travels with Geismar Brecht while searching for Mirés Grillet, a performer whose path leads into a...

Son of Osivirius by Cathryn deVries tells the fascinating story of a new world torn between two human factions living on the recently colonized planet, Osivirius: The Colony, ruled by Commander Tun, and the rebels, a smaller group of agrarian-minded people who have hidden themselves...

In Jason Middleton’s The Last Harmonic, at a diplomatic event in Geneva, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presents a reset in relations with Russia, marked by a symbolic button that conceals a critical translation error and signals a deeper shift already in motion. Years later,...

In Joanne Woodley's Destiny, Oklahoma roofer Jacy Deere is ordered into a government relocation program. The world has undergone a complete environmental collapse, and global war has reshaped daily life. People are at the mercy of those in power who have restricted access to food...

Escape from Perihelion by Diego Tovar takes place in a scorched, climate-ravaged future, with Earth as a wasteland. The situation is worsened by environmental injustice and extractive capitalism. The people are divided into two classes: the privileged “insiders” of the domed Los Angeles and the...

When Lieutenant Lily Starling, of the United Earth Union fleet, is summoned by Caris to her lab on Bimini, she is shocked by Caris’ revelation about the dark truth behind the planet’s renewal cycle. Shortly after, through a tip from Datch’s digital backup, Lily heads...

Auralis: The Bridge (Book 1) by R.A. Wagener is a praiseworthy, speculative, sci-fi technothriller. We meet Asher Newman, a mid-level systems integration engineer at Luminate Technologies. When Asher’s team was assigned to run final-stage testing on a new hi-tech chip, Asher discovered that the architecture...