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...

Kritanut Wattana’s After Us follows Owen, a programmer living in a near-future where artificial intelligence has become part of everyday life. Recently laid off and separated from Jordana and their child, Rowan, Owen is alone in his apartment when every screen delivers the same order:...

In Kritanut Wattana’s Six Days Out, six days before his scheduled release from Ashford Correctional, structural engineer Ethan Cole watches a mysterious illness tear through the prison and escape into a country where systems have collapsed. He sets out for Harlow, two hundred and ten...

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...

Fables of the Oort Spiral is a captivating collection of speculative fiction short stories by Jay Veloso Batista. Brothers Ollie and Eli live very different lives on the mining support colony of Quaor. When Eli's wife tries to manipulate Ollie into giving up his life...

Richard Cutler’s Carbon Neutral follows Admiral Neil Dodson, who commands four enormous colony ships on a thirteen-year voyage from humanity’s first settlement outside the solar system to Tau Ceti. His crew must locate a habitable planet and build a wormhole Gate that will connect the...

In Craig W. Stanfill’s Carbon Zero, Abigail Thompson is an MIT doctoral candidate interning at Intelligenics who creates Xerxes, an artificial intelligence designed to manage networks. During a Fourth of July cookout in Somerville, Abigail demonstrates Xerxes by letting it enter her apartment’s devices. When...

In Marsell Morris’s Alien Offensive Book 1: Nanobot Storm, billions of ten-sided metal objects descend across Earth, reaching every continent and ocean. Each device rights itself before releasing a crystalline mist. Soon, animals of every species begin hunting people with coordinated aggression, leaving cities deserted...

Murder on Argus (Particle Death Book 1) by Shawn Conners is a science-fiction murder mystery set in deep space. Earth has long since died, and the survivors of humanity live in deep space on massive stations and suitable planets where habitation is possible. Ruling over...