Ragnar Kroll has built a world, just over twenty-five years from now, where humans thrive in peace, and crime and anti-social behavior are a thing of the past. AI has proved invaluable in screening and correcting health issues in the populace through Directed Neuroplasticity Therapy....

In all the time Liam Mayfield had taken on the identity of the Iskander, the former air force officer had never experienced a situation like this. Reporter Onyx Sleater's attempts to garner sympathy for his cause have backfired as the people he once trusted turned...

For a decade, Mathis Grenier, a Toronto-based bio-digital architect at Hikari International, had been working on technology designed to enhance fundamental human capacity, and he was preparing for its trials. However, he is forced to yield control of the project to Aiden Frost, an American...

Quiichaar: The Adduco Ventum by Reed Sturm follows the survival, concealment, and eventual pursuit of a single forbidden weapon that was meant to be erased. During the final years of the Great Wars, the world devastator Priagrandis is secretly disabled by Djudg Clemmoth to prevent...

Hemlock Reefs by Darice Fetcher opens in a future where the Earth’s surface has been destroyed by war, climate collapse, and human ambition. Humanity now lives far below the ocean, protected by vast living walls known as the Hemlock Reefs. These reefs permit only approved...

In Hello Humans by Momoko Uno, for decades, Earth has been under quiet surveillance by offworld governments who believe the planet is nearing collapse. Princess Cupcake, sovereign of the Feline Federation, launches a program that embeds cats into human society to steer behavior at close...

To Avenge a Fallen Star by Qilanna Quinn follows Gemma Proctor, a miner on the planet Reva, who enters the Oranos Trials—a government program that takes twenty-year-olds to the capital city of Zion, and subjects them to public elimination tests in exchange for military placement...

Chronicles of the Gods by L. Scott Cisney is set in the twenty-fourth century, where Earth faces extinction as the generation ship Calypso departs with selected families aboard. Terra Winstead leaves as a child with her parents, Sam and Riley Winstead, growing up inside the...

Three years after the failed annihilation attempt on Earth by Icarus, an alien spaceship, a Centauri battleship intercepts a message from Icarus’ Polit-AI, reporting the treasonous acts of its captain by providing alien technology to Earth inhabitants and protecting human telepaths or mutants. The Centauri...

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...