Mars Colony Rescue is the fourth book in the Interstellar Refugees series by Daniel Ellrick, and this story introduces new adventures and high-stakes missions. Comet Icaro is headed toward Hellas Planitia with the potential to turn Mars into a frozen wasteland. The worst could happen,...

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...

MIR.EXE by D.K. Dillenback follows Echo Kinyata, who works at a Cryosaga-controlled port in a future Alaska where global power depends on a proprietary energy material. His role links his nervous system directly to corporate logistics infrastructure, binding his health to uninterrupted compliance. After a...

For a decade, Mathis Grenier, a Toronto-based bio-digital architect at Hikari International, had been working on technology designed to enhance fundamental human capacity, and he was preparing for its trials. However, he is forced to yield control of the project to Aiden Frost, an American...

Monster Hunting in Newtonville by Viktor Csák follows John Debenham, who lives inside a fortified Boston where a strict boundary, the Red Line, separates the surviving colony from the ruined city. He stays afloat by secretly escorting people and cargo past the Red Line, into...

In Midtown: The Forsaken Virus of the Black Realm by Karsten De Bolt and Isaak Uriarte, the cities of Halvade, Capital City, and Ashenfell are on the edge of ruin after an experiment fails and fractures reality. An entity of metal and will comes through,...

Moonchild Rising by B. Ward Powers and Marti Ward tells the story of Irene Pennington, a quiet and capable young woman born and raised in the colonies on the moon, now attempting to build a new life and career on Earth. With a traumatic past...

When Noah saw the news announcing the death of Dr. Martha Ortega, the leading authority on Black Plague research, he was unaware that her death would upend his life. The year is 6992, and, as it turns out, aliens are not so bad. Although humans...

My Soul to Keep by Lynette M. Burrows is a hard-hitting dystopian story set in a very different version of America to the place it was in 1961. This is a world where cruel leaders force everyone to follow strict rules and punish those who...

Can war ever be justified? Can war prevent further wars? Bauder sets out to dissect these questions using a series of short stories. Each reflects an aspect of warfare and prevailing attitudes to it, from misplaced patriotism to the reasons that soldiers enlist and the...