In I, Robot Tessa by Joel R. Dennstedt, Tessa works as a Cranial Augmentation Technician in a future city. This is a place where robots must obey any human who asks for help. During a nighttime walk with her robotic dog Tucker, she discovers a...

In A Savage Nation by Leon Harris, a brutal alternate history inverts the transatlantic slave trade into a horrifying mirror. It is a world where African empires are advanced, and Europe has reverted to a world of primitivity. The story introduces the “Great Harvest,” which...

In Lance Jepsen's The Last Orbit, Nicole Gordon survives by salvaging wreckage from the dangerous debris fields that orbit Earth. Her mode of transport is the deteriorating banger of a vessel, Tethys. During a routine recovery operation, she discovers the ASV Mnemosyne, a missing arkship...

In Clinton H. Simpson’s Palisade Meridian, firefighter Carter Davis boards the luxury cruise ship Palisade Meridian with his wife, Leah, and their children, expecting a welcome family vacation far from the pressures of life near Chicago. Days after leaving New Orleans, communication systems fail on...

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...

Inside the Darkness: Eternal Book 4 by JP Ramzy picks up with former assassin Devyn and her companions, Isaac and Ryan, wandering a ruined Texas after the Blackout meteor strike. The atmosphere is terrifying, with winged monsters and human-faced beasts patrolling a sky that has...

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...