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...

In Alexander Semenyuk’s Sea Diary of Johnny Unknown, Johnny, an orphaned factory worker hoping for a fresh start, boards a passenger ship filled with migrants, businessmen, and families on their way to a distant shore. On his very first night at sea, he hears the...