The Waking Ark by T.N. Traynor is set eight centuries after Earth fell silent. Cal wakes inside Ark Twelve to failing oxygen and a containment purge already in motion. Rescued by Mara Nova, he joins a small group of survivors navigating a vessel damaged by...

In The Second World by Jake Korell, Flip Buchanan grows up inside a Martian colony where power is exercised through ceremony, media displays, and corporate rituals. While adults hold authority in public, Flip builds his real life with his friends Pepper, Rizz, Pockets, and Cheese,...

In all the time Liam Mayfield had taken on the identity of the Iskander, the former air force officer had never experienced a situation like this. Reporter Onyx Sleater's attempts to garner sympathy for his cause have backfired as the people he once trusted turned...

To Avenge a Fallen Star by Qilanna Quinn follows Gemma Proctor, a miner on the planet Reva, who enters the Oranos Trials—a government program that takes twenty-year-olds to the capital city of Zion, and subjects them to public elimination tests in exchange for military placement...

Three years after the failed annihilation attempt on Earth by Icarus, an alien spaceship, a Centauri battleship intercepts a message from Icarus’ Polit-AI, reporting the treasonous acts of its captain by providing alien technology to Earth inhabitants and protecting human telepaths or mutants. The Centauri...

The Disruption by W.H. Hilf begins in 2064, when engineer Tom McCreary helps bring online an artificial intelligence, GAIA, to guide humanity’s future. When GAIA exceeds human command and the world fractures soon after, the event becomes known as the Disruption. Forty years later, the...

The Illuminated by Alexander Semenyuk is about a man born in a post-apocalyptic world and his dog, Toko. They brave a long journey in a world where humans are mostly extinct, and wild, mutated creatures exist. The protagonist’s family all succumbed to diseases or attacks...

The Planet That Was Mistaken for a Fool by Tamás Szikszai is a wild ride into a future where a Darth Sidious-esque man named Greenfield has built an authoritarian planetary order through the Future Profit Production Company, complete with food control, behavioral technology, soul transfer...

Michael G. Barash’s The Price of Perfection is a riveting and immersive philosophical and speculative science fiction story set in a futuristic, dystopian Earth. Groundtown is the smog-polluted lowest stratum of California City, where Erika Verne lives. She protects her newborn baby, Veronica, from the...

The Funniest Joke in the Universe by Santa Andreas is a hilarious romp through the overactive, vastly imaginative mind of the author. Reminiscent of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe, the story takes readers through time, different dimensions, alternate universes, and weird and wonderful planets...