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...

Time Travel Academy: Kurt Rogers and the Four Crystals of Time by Reginald Williams follows Kurt Rogers, a twelve‑year‑old boy who has spent a year trying to hide an ability that shattered his classroom windows. When an invitation to the Time Travel Academy arrives, he...

It has been more than a decade since the war began on Solara, a world of sprawling lands and isles. It was sparked after the Nightshade Empire, the government that rules most of Solara, launched a persecution campaign against Arcanists, people who can draw on...

Cassian Dolton’s They Were Torn Asunder follows 11701, a twenty-five-year-old coal miner in the Rénlèi Republic, where the state placement test decides each citizen’s occupation and social standing. Unable to read, 11701 saves for her two annual days of leave so she can retake the...

In Mendy Sobol’s The Eternal Blue Sky, humanity has left Earth and built colonies on distant planets, where people regain the dreams lost elsewhere in space. Elderly war veteran Eric Stratton lives outside Noahstown until Jenny Harvard arrives, asking him to explain the Dream Wars,...

It is 2550. Humans have spread into space, colonizing hundreds of worlds. The Human Systems Alliance (HSA) has been governing this vast network of planets for generations. However, for three decades, the HSA has been stuck in a brutal war with the Ascendancy, a powerful...