Volk's Bane by Zach Fortier is the second book in The Overseer series, which began with book one, Volk, when over 100,000 gamers made contact with aliens. In Saudi Arabia, an AI named Sophia becomes a citizen, and Spinners, innovative gadgets, become wildly popular. Viktor...

Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don't Get Hungry by Daniel Lawrence Abrams tautly examines the consequences of technological advancements and their impact on human society. Set in a near-future world, the story revolves around the lives of several characters, including Stu, an AI programmer; Maria, an...

“We all dream of an honorable world,” but the world depicted in the novel Win Condition by Libby Schultz is anything but honorable. It is a techno-hell on steroids run by a self-serving decadent elite. A world where players of a strategy game called Break...

The animals of City Zoo have finally been liberated! Fed up with how the humans had run things, the furry and not-so-furry inhabitants of City Zoo had fought hard and had finally been granted their freedom. A democracy created by animals for animals – what...

Iceapelago 3 by Peter Brennan is the final episode of the excellent futuristic series based on seismic events that effectively destroyed much of civilization and created small self-sustaining communities in various parts of the world. These communities are still struggling to survive, now three generations...

“Poverty was one thing; a catastrophe was another,” and there is plenty of both in the novel Below by Alaric Cabiling. Young 12-year-old Luzvimindo Arnaiz (Min) scavenges through the polluted wastelands of Tondo, Manila, trying to earn some extra cash for his poverty-stricken family. He...

Marcus Douglas Presents The Cycle of Completion is set in a Christian environment. Nebuchadnezzar, once the Chief Scientist and the Orator of New Jerusalem at the beginning of the story, has led the region away from its once utopia-like setting. He dismisses God as the...

The Psyman by Nick Bruechle is set in a dystopian society shaped by a century of conflict, with three classmates—Biz, Necker, and Bock—on divergent paths. Biz, who carries the "Leadership Gene," is destined for government, while Bock, the smartest among them, fears a surveillance role...

Uri Kartoun offers fifty fascinating short stories set in 2029, exploring different hypothetical scenarios in A Future Without. Truth erodes from the collective human consciousness, leading to the downfall of many institutions, including the judiciary and the scientific field, pushing humanity to adapt. When adolescence...

In Transference by Ian Patterson, society is divided between the rich and the poor. Technology is highly sophisticated but only benefits the rich. There is a machine that can transfer diseases from person to person, and the rich have taken advantage of it. Though the...