Sharp Turns Ahead: Ventures Beyond the Beaten Path by Daniel P. Douglas is a curated collection of short fiction spanning speculative futures, quiet human moments, moral puzzles, and imaginative what-ifs. Organized into four sections, the book guides readers through stories that range from science fiction...

Chasing the Underground by N M Sotzek follows former competitive Scanner Cam Tylar, who is secretly involved in illegal research on Artificial Intelligence Morphers, or AIMs. Cam discovers that the AIMs sold by Trevor McCarthy’s company are unstable and can stop obeying human control, sometimes...

Bart Carroll’s Bolted to the Bone is an exciting, gritty, and tightly interwoven tale of fantasy and science fiction. The story is set in the Emerald Remanant, a broken fragment of Earth, when Earth was fractured to its very core. Emerald is in orbit around...

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...

A year after returning from a mission to the past to save Tempestria, Dreya the Dark, a powerful faery sorceress, and Catriona “Cat” Redfletching, a half faery druid, wed in a private ceremony. On their return from honeymoon, the Council of Mages summons the Guardians...

Psychotropia: Maestro's Creed by Bill Reinert is a dystopian novel set in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest. The story follows Liam, a grieving widower, as he embarks on a desperate quest to recover his late wife Joan's stolen ashes. What begins as a personal mission quickly...

Afterglow by Troy Kotanides is a psychological drama following Edyn, a 32-year-old man who has psychogenic amnesia, a very rare form of retrograde amnesia in which one loses all memories after some traumatic incident. Coming back to his psychologist, Dr. Gordon Raine, after a gap...

A Fragment of Chrome by Miikka Rautioaho takes place in Ocean City, a future city controlled by corporations and shaped by pollution and technology. Body modifications are common, and they create significant differences between the characters. Some benefit from them. Others don’t. The main character...

Shadow of Helios by R. J. Thompson launches with Kaelen Voss selected to represent Earth in the Interplanetary Ascendance, a televised competition that determines who will hold power on the ruling Council. Transported from his home on Earth to Helios Station, Kaelen enters a regulated...

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...