In her novella Kept, Theresa Jacobs offers readers a tale of desperate humans fleeing a dying Earth on enormous spaceships. The story opens seven years after one of the ships, Gaia, has crashed-landed on Kepler, an unexplored planet. The survivors are kept alive by a...

Girl of Glass by Megan O’Russell is a young adult dystopian novel about what it means to be human. Magnolia “Nola” Kent is a young woman who has lived in the Dome her entire life. When a riot on Charity Day gets out of hand,...

Eden by Shade Owens is a dystopian story that features a unique kind of conflict, one I have never seen so well-developed in any story — the gender war. Before the American Rebirth, women outnumbered men 7 to 1, until President Price banned the abortion...

In When Stars Go Out, author Ransom Grey depicts a not-too-distant America, in which a new order has taken hold and the nation’s teens are rounded up and sent to special ‘communities’ to work. Reed, a new inductee, goes to the compound with an angry...

Miguel Traveler #1: The Man From Texas by Daniel McFatter takes us on a broad, sweeping science fiction/dystopian/philosophical/contemporary literature journey through the past, the present and the future. Miguel Morgan wakes up in the womb of a machine that he instinctively understands is his new...

Hell has come to earth. It began with tremors that grew in scale until the safety of a whole European town was at risk. Silence crept in with the aftermath, reports of animal attacks flooded social media, and then, when the whole world was watching…...

Indra was an Outlier. She was nothing, less than nothing within the city walls. For three years she had worked for Saffron, inheriting her mother's position of House Maid when her mother became too sick to work. Now it fell to her to provide for...

Earth has been evacuated. It belongs to the Mongers now. And the Mongers have one goal—enslave whatever humans are left behind. For Renaissance, the rules are simple. Survive at all costs and family comes above all else. But as she struggles with the solitary life...

Imagine, for a moment, an America that has turned inward, disrespected and disregarded the wishes and feelings of the rest of the world (not too hard to do in these times really). This is the premise of Pete Conrad’s novel Survival of the Sparrows. A...

The Before by Ben Jackson takes readers into a dystopian future in which a virus has wiped out most of humanity. The tragic part is that the virus was originally meant to benefit mankind. But all it did was leave a world in pieces. Small...