Ultralumen™: Episode II – Planetary Ascendant: Origin in the Astraea Continuum by Ultra Lumen Studios follows Adrian Vale, who, three rotations ago, survived the Wavelength Anomaly, the Construct that is still keeping secrets. The Prism Heart coupled to him at a depth no model predicted,...

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...

Charles Kern’s Haldane Endures follows Kertis Andor Haldane, Sovereign of the five-world Haldane Hold, as coordinated attacks push the Human Imperium toward open war. Communications begin failing across Haldane territory, leaving Kertis to act on fragments of information as rival powers move against his people....

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,...

Rodger Fooks’ Where the Feather Falls follows Leo Yonge, a London AI specialist who leaves work for the Greek island of Paxos after becoming uneasy about systems designed to influence human behavior. Hoping for distance from technology that predicts people too well, Leo settles into...

In Quill Holland’s Corrupted Race, years after the Horror is destroyed, and Project RESTORE rebuilds humanity’s damaged worlds, Raith lives on Gaia with his children after having once been Tynan Khidar, the emperor whose identity was overwritten. His attempt at farming is interrupted when the...

Irina Kvistberg’s Continuum follows Lea Voss, a researcher in the Biological Reserve, one of the few places left outside the smooth routines of an optimized future. When an unexplained perceptual event reaches Lea during synchronization, the System labels it harmless noise, yet sealed records connect...

Reed Pederson’s Rise of the AInimals follows Theorin Silverling, heir to Silverling & Sons Circus Extraordinaire, as he steps toward leadership of the famous family business. Theo has spent his life preparing for the circus, but shrinking audiences place its future in question as opposition...

Alexander Heed’s Pulsar: The Time Traveler follows Chase Monadi, an alien from Rhaland whose people developed handheld machines that jump forward through time. After a jump brings him to Earth, Chase spends two years modifying his device so it can travel backward, seeking a lattice...