Fiction - Science Fiction - General

The year is 2090.Earth is a dystopian nightmare filled with lonely people seeking connection in virtual worlds while corporate conglomerates profit from war and secretly run every country's government.So, nothing's changed. Except there are more robots! Like the one the slovenly Null Lasker (he's...

EPIC: The Game, starts out with an entrepreneur pitching his idea for a Virtual Reality game. The game runs on a quantum computer platform. It leads players into dimensions where they explore their parallel lives, and confront fears, during 20 levels of game play....

There is something in the barn.When college student Lily Masters is called to pack up her recently deceased Great Aunt and Uncle's family homestead in rural Oregon, she discovers something incredible. A portal to another world.As Lily stumbles into the strange and wondrous Otherworlds,...

The Shadow Kingdom is on an epic journey to save its prince and the kingdom. Who could be chosen to fulfill the prophecy? As the tragedy continues, the Enigma of Six follows the prophecy to rise against all odds. The soul from the sleeping...

Before Martha Wells captured the hearts of MILLIONS with her Murderbot series, there was Khat, Sagai, and Elen, and a city risen out of death and decay... The city of Charisat, a tiered monolith of the Ancients' design, sits on the edge of the...

A survey vessel trawls up a man's body in the Outer Hebrides and ship's engineer Helen finds a compelling green stone in his pocket. On Rannoch Moor, her cousin Malcolm, a local ranger, is visited by a strange woman. She goes missing, and he...

DARK MATTER MAGAZINE'S THIRTY DARKEST STORIES FROM THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF PUBLICATION (2021-2022)Every story published in Dark Matter Magazine is a best-of story to our staff, and that's why we had to do something different when choosing stories for the magazine's first-ever trade...

The tale of Sleeping Beauty is true. There was actually a princess, and an evil fairy queen, and a terrible cursed spinning wheel. It did happen... so long ago that it's remembered now only as a "fairy tale". In real life, though, there was...

IT'S A WORLD RULED BY WOMEN. MEN ARE ALL BUT EXTRANEOUS AND VIOLENT CRIME IS ALMOST ERADICATED. WHAT COULD BE BETTER? Severed Roots (recipient of Literary Titan Gold Book Award) depicts a future where family, long considered a patriarchal construct, has finally been outlawed....

A New York Times 6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week A Los Angeles Daily News 25 Must Read Best Books of 2023A Ms Magazine September 2023 Reads For The Rest of Us "The impression left by The Last Interview is of an indomitable...

Cid is living a life of unfulfilled dreams. One day he wakes up to look out his window and see something that shakes up his life. He has to face it and when he does he begins to fulfill his dreams. He goes off...

A hundred years ago a prophecy foretold that a child will be born who will save therealm, not three. Nineteen years after their birth, the forgotten enemy, has returned, seeking to use the world's power for its revenge. They have already killed the first...

The Everstorm is merciless-the people who live beneath it are even worse.The earth has become a wasteland as a result of humanity's mistreatment. The sky has been dark for as long as anyone can remember, covered in an infinite roiling mass called The Everstorm....

Eerily Wrinkling is a nationalistic society created to shield those affected by the outsider's harmful radiation due to weapons testing. A city of splendor, with riches and horrors beyond your wildest dreams.For the past eleven years, Alan Ritson has lived and studied abroad while...

An elegant, beautiful, and inspiring epic exploring a semiotic paradise!Nietzsche called homo sapien the "murderer of all murderers" when he declared that "God is dead" at the turn of the 20th Century. Yet, the great god Pan died nearly 2,000 years ago. Thamus, are...

Bolt the doors and windows as you jump in to this spine-chilling anthology of stories from Wahammer Horror. An irascible veteran conceals a monstrous secret. A young victim of tragedy seeks the protection of their mysterious lord. On a feudal world, two men plot...

Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early...

Enter the StarGaze Society, a secret society who has plans for the three, thanks to their special bloodline. Mary's invitation to enter the StarGaze Society promises her answers, not only about her parents, but also about the origins of life, the existence of God,...

What happens to a mother when her superhero identity is exposed? Unbeknownst to her husband and daughter, Julie Lavelle secretly moonlights as a beloved costumed "ultra" known to the public as Hope. However, when her identity is unexpectedly revealed to the public and her...

There are many who believe that there is no such thing as coincidence, that events are guided by Providence to a pre-destined outcome. In Shepherds of Destiny, Providence incorporates the supernatural and futuristic medical technology to oversee and guide critical events, both past and...

Truth is obsolete. May the best lies win.Low-level "news" agency staffer Bex suspects her coworker Alia is an agent of the criminal faction Choose Truth, which sows chaos with its harmful stories. But when she confronts Alia and her warrior-journalist compatriots, Bex's own reality...

Wet areas got wetter and dry areas got drier. The rich got richer, and the poor got poorer. And they all met in Nineveh. A massive global drought combined with an epic contamination of the world's limited fresh water supply combined with the privatization...

The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaijū Godzilla Godzilla emerged from the sea to devastate Tokyo in the now-classic 1954 film, produced by Tōhō Studios and directed by Ishirō Honda, creating a global sensation and launching one of the...

A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity-these are the elements of Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely. "A highly sensational plot that will keep astonishing you...

The Knights of Peace must defeat those inflicting violence on a peaceful society, but their code forbids them to cause personal injury. Their mission is to intercept and destroy all forms of weaponry, explosives, and ammunition worldwide.As Roscoe Finley joins the Knights and embarks...

New York City thrums with energy, wonder, and possibility in this magical novel about the life of Nikola Tesla. It is 1943, and the renowned inventor Nikola Tesla occupies a forbidden room on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker, stealing electricity. Louisa,...

A woman consumed by hateOne man confused by it Another tasked with extinguishing it In a city plagued by humans with no emotion, one woman fights to find the truth that's been hidden for over a century. Born to be nothing more than a...

When Dallas Church ran full speed to the point of impact, his only goal was to help anyone he could. He did not know or care that being so close to the meteor would change him so drastically. In the year that followed, Dallas...

Get ready for a space-faring archaeologist who uncovers an ancient terror on a desolate moon, an immortal who hunts infernal creatures, a celestial being who lands on a polluted planet-destroyed by climate change-to render judgement on its inhabitants, and much more. From Earth and...

In the heart of Winter evil lurks and legends rise. In the dark and cold, we cling to the hope for spring. Yet, darkness cannot be defeated without the light. When the chill of winter's shadow is upon us, we look to dreams of...

Contained within this anthology are dark stories and works of art that explore the shadow side of reality. They are disturbed works that journey hopelessly through the downtrodden fringes of society, across the deepest reaches of space, and into the darkest, most troubled corners...

What if humans could find a way to travel through time? And if so, might these interactions in past events be the catalysts that prompted some of those unexplained historical events? Using accepted historical facts, Swallowed by Time weaves the lives of its characters...

I, TelepathBy: M. E. MillerI, Telepath mixes science facts and science fiction. Medical science states that the process of thought is an electrochemical reaction in our brains. When the brain suffers a hit by lightning, the dying neurons release neurotransmitters. These dying neurons begin...

The first trip to Mars on the new Mars Runner space train was expected to be a long one.Laden with supplies and merchandise a new and uncertain future awaited the passengers and dignitaries on board and with a very capable crew there were no...

Despite periods of heavy censorship and political opposition, science fiction has emerged in the People's Republic of China as a popular literary genre. This anthology of stories by six major Chinese science fiction writers is the first such collection to be published in English....

It's a not-so-distant era, when people pay top dollar to freeze themselves and hope to wake up in a more prosperous and ecological decade. Two friends take different paths to the future--but only one will make peace with the present. In other stories, the...

Transcending Fates, Arena Chronicles is an Action-Horror story rolled into a Sci-Fi Thriller with a splash of Erotic fantasy... The story takes place on a barren planet that has hidden beauty and fantasy fascinations to behold and revolves around a small group of humans...

Leonel wakes up expecting to hear the forest sounds around his camp. Instead he is lying on a hard surface, and hears a hum and feels a vibration deep in his very being. He is greeted by a tall white haired man who introduces...

"There is no one else at work on the American scene like her."--Laird Hunt, National Book Award finalist and author of ZorrieIn a dystopic future of unregulated gene editing, a woman named Emily wakes up on the wrong side of the universe as an...

The Lion Communique are thirteen darkly wound stories that examine the struggle between good and evil from multiple perspectives. Jim Morrison in the wilderness of Shamans and psychedelics, capturing the soul of General William Tecumseh Sherman, mysterious forces at play in the trenches of...

The war with the Weevil takes on epic proportions as Will and his crew attempt to stave off a major alien offensive when three new and formidable opponents surface abroad and at home. Will's diplomatic skills fail him and drive him to be the...

Who remembers the inventor, and forgets the invention? And even in that rare case, what do they remember? Explore the memories of the people that knew Marcus Jameson, the inventor of the Matter-Energy-Converter, and hear what they knew that perhaps, he did not. In...

David Walker disappeared in the summer of 1969 and was assumed dead.Imagine going to work one day, then waking up in 2019 without knowledge he had gone to sleep for fifty years in suspended animation.Would he be able to live successfully in the life...

"This bite-size tale packs an outsize punch." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)When the Southern Tier Strangler, a serial killer taking victims across the Rust Belt, winds up dead on Bina Morton's autoliner, she finds herself caught in a murder mystery in reverse: This murderer is...

There is something in the barn.When college student Lily Masters is called to pack up her recently deceased Great Aunt and Uncle's family homestead in rural Oregon, she discovers something incredible. A portal to another world.As Lily stumbles into the strange and wondrous Otherworlds,...

Destination drawn unceremoniously from a hat, quiet, bookish Shiloh leaves her cliché life and all the expectations that went with it without any intention of looking back. Upon arrival in her new city, a dark past lurks in her musty apartment and invades her...

What if humans could find a way to travel through time? And if so, might these interactions in past events be the catalysts that prompted some of those unexplained historical events? Using accepted historical facts, Swallowed by Time weaves the lives of its characters...

Will Saris and Shanna, his love, become the king and queen of the planet Yord, ruling over a hodge-podge of races, including their own. They use their royalty for diplomatic protection while taking on the enemies of their new alliance. The war with the...

The Stormbound Trilogy: Book 1: The Old GodsBy: J.T. BerryZachary Carol does not love being fourteen years old. At his prestigious new school, he is struggling in all his classes, and at home, his angry father is always on his case, criticizing Zach for...

There's always something under the bed. There's a world there. Usually you're unaware of it, yet you are certain that something comes out...after dark. After you are safely under the covers. That's when they come out. Psychotic dust bunnies. Eyeballs hunting for new heads....