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...

Bernard Doucette’s Higher Intelligence follows Jeremiah Reese, the scientist who created Archi, a synthetic mind that ended civilization seventeen years earlier. Living alone in the mountains of western North Carolina, Jeremiah hides from the machine that calls him Father, using his secluded position to help...

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...

Aspry Jones’s Beware the Golden Tigers follows the Protectors, a superhero team whose recent victories have made them celebrities across the Aeril. When seven witches from the distant world of Manipesh cross through a multiverse portal, the heroes learn of an old war between Somatran...

Inceptum Incubus by Xen Ovid-Sophron-Naso draws us into an immense galactic conflict set between 28,050 AD and 30,050 AD, an era triggered by corporate greed and ancient grudges. We watch Euro-Galactic Prime Minister Margaretta Du Plessis pull a highly controversial move by replacing millions of...

Holt Ashcroft’s Zero Footprint follows Cole, a field operative sent into a compromised industrial facility at midnight to extract Sarah Lin, an injured systems engineer carrying a code package inside a failing mastoid interface. Sarah needs the package copied at Holtwood, an isolated legacy archive,...

Ty Hersey’s Sacred Technologies follows Willow Dinn, an engineering student in Midbell, where every invention is declared a gift from Roh, the god worshiped as humanity’s sole Creator. Creating outside Church-approved designs is treason. A year after Willow’s father was executed for founding an outlawed...

M. Van Shamrai’s Scions of the Last Hope follows Gaag Zorb, a young astrophysicist traveling to Dubai as Earth prepares to evacuate millions aboard interstellar stations bound for Glezar on a journey expected to last three centuries. When Gaag’s shuttle crashes in the Arabian Desert,...

Life had not been easy lately for Ellena, an EMT based in Georgia. Her ex-husband, now in prison for embezzlement, had gambled their house away. And aside from losing her child at birth, she had also lost her EMT license over a mistake while on...