Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr.’s The Sedona Rift follows private investigator Griffin Knight after photographer Lena Petrova witnesses an impossible green flash near Cathedral Rock while searching for her missing brother, Mikhail. At the scene, Griffin’s Smart Goggles detect unfamiliar residue and a repeating signal inside...

Unlike some stories that begin with a bang, The Fleet Answers: Astraea's First Signal by Ultra Lumen Studios begins with a heartbeat as a mother must choose between her daughter and her world. Generations after conductor Arien Solara closed the rescue corridor, holding her daughter...

Phantom’s Revenge: The Adventures of Air Angel by John Witcher tells the story of Angela Carter, who suddenly becomes a superhero overnight. One stormy night at the Wilmont University lab, Angela is deep in researching a strange artifact covered in odd markings. Suddenly, lightning hits...

Christoffer Vuolo Junros’s The Delay follows Nash, a prisoner on Serenith, a lethal blue world where molten glass storms batter a vast forced-labor facility. Once a citizen of Bailot, Serenith’s inhabited sister planet, Nash is imprisoned after officials target her family when her brother, Zhilmo,...

T.K. Toppin’s The Dark Without follows Dr. Esme Morrant, a genealogist-anthropologist in 7631 whose discovery of an ancient journal threatens everything humanity believes about Sibyl, the woman credited with leading civilization out of a ruined Earth. Scientific testing dates the journal a thousand years earlier...

The Robokid is a science fiction novella by Thomas Chiang. At just fourteen, Eric Miller is already a gifted programmer. After his father gifts him the latest version of the popular family robot, RoboKid, Eric can't wait to personalize its attributes, and he names it...

In The Aerie Protocol, a photojournalist, Mac, launches an investigation into the plane crash that killed his friend and uncovers something shocking—a cloaked Sky City named Aerie, inhabited by the advanced ‘Sky People’ who for centuries have been harvesting Earth’s energy and controlling its weather....

The Algorithm of Us by S. Page is set in Deltara, a city where an AI called EVE matches every citizen with their supposed soulmate. No dating, no choice; people just get a name delivered straight to their vision feed. Zora is a data scientist...

Alan Felyk’s The Tatagonian Code follows Daniel Cadence, a Colorado ghostwriter. An unusual meeting with astrophysicist Raleigh Redmond changes his routine when Raleigh claims Daniel has spent seven years connected to a classified project without knowing it. Soon, a blue-green object drops through Daniel’s Subaru...

Terrarium by Joe Vitovec is filled with strange happenings that seem to have no clear explanations. When a Canadian couple witnesses a UFO withdrawing water from a lake, no one believes their story. At the same time, famous opera singers begin disappearing from cities around...