Fiction - Science Fiction - General

In this sequel to Banner's Bonus, Zeke Slater poses as an average cargo pilot, yet in reality he's a privateer for a secret alliance of merchants turned vigilante. He captains a cargo ship that is covertly super-charged, heavily armed and anything but harmless beneath...

In a society of the lost, abandoned by the great cities of Vindiri, Floaters are forced to live in the unforgiving Booms, where the wind never stops blowing and an airborne drug, called dust, reigns as king. In this desolate, dystopian world, the strong...

Vero has always felt at odds with his community. As a trans man in near-future Puerto Rico, he struggles to gain acceptance for his identity and his vision of an inclusive society. After a hurricane decimates the island and Puerto Rico is abandoned by...

The monster within led to her exile. The monster she's become will free her. Botalia Ulton, 24yo daughter to highly revered Scholars, lives out her exile on an island, isolated from society. Despite being unable to partake in the scientific community she once dreamed...

"I know you mean well, my star. I know you just want to help everyone. But this is how it is. To share the truth is to die . . ."Mzia is a lowly village healer in an empire crumbling from years of drug...

Balancing high school and being a Legend is is more than they bargained for.Scarlett and Briana are tested by a new relationship. Allison and Connor stumble upon a gruesome murder that hits close to home and tears them apart.With changes to the prophecy, Vistrus...

A secret rebellion rages.Generations ago a plague ravaged the world. Grey-Stars rose from the ruins, formed the country of Pangaea, and created a society of peace and order. The caste system maintains this peace, and the Grey-Stars maintain the castes.Now, the lower castes fight...

You know that office bromance: two of a kind, always taking their lunch together, always wearing the same sly grin. Only ever a hair away from a cold joke about how spreadsheets are a living hell; about taking a bullet if it means going...

Mzia is a lowly village healer in an empire crumbling from years of drug wars and unrelenting illnesses. But her blood harbors a dangerous secret, and with it, she fights to bring balance back to her broken world. When the government discovers her location...

The dawn of the twenty-second century finds women in a new world where water ---the lack of it, or the over-abundance of it--shapes their inner and outer lives. Sara turns eighteen and longs to join the all-women's Kurdish army to wrestle control of the...

Former Detective Tal Davis is no stranger to heartbreak and loss. She, Link, and Avani were all saved from their broken lives by becoming Vessels-human hosts for spirits who return to right wrongs from their past and earn a chance at Elysium. Each Vessel...

The final completed novel by Ben BovaIntergalactic explorer, venture capitalist, and Casanova Sam Gunn may be gone, but his legacy lives on in his son, Sam Gunn Jr.In his first-ever adventure, Sam Gunn Jr. sets off to fulfill his father's left-behind mission of interplanetary...

From stories about teleportation and an apocalypse on Mars to Twilight Zone-esque stories about parallel realms, dreamlike technological perceptions, and new worlds, The Second Sky and Other Stories is a far-future work that explores the depth of human nature, love, grief, existential threats, and...

29 BRAND NEW SCI-FI HORROR STORIESThe future is now, and it's not what we were promised. The optimistic science fiction of old was wrong. Progress is not linear, technology creates as many problems as it solves, and the concept of a better tomorrow has...

A coalition of religious and corporate leaders band together to institute a new era of Reconstruction-herding the populous into dystopian communities controlled by cult leaders who regulate their religious, political, and ideological views. With privacy being a thing of the past, A.I. technology track...

Anterior Skies -- paying homage to such pioneers as H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Thomas Ligotti, as well as other associated writer -- is an anthology of the weird and cosmic. You'll find horror, science fiction, and fantasy; uncategorizable, genre-bending abominations; poetry; and...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER Official IndieNext Selection "Incisive and insightful." -- Texas Monthly From environmental journalist and founder of the #TransRightsReadathon Sim Kern, comes the eat-the-rich climate fiction you won't want to put down: In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election...

Kitt Kougar, owner of Chelsea Place - Manhattan's swankiest nightclub - is quite comfortable in her bronze skin. Then she learns that, during an emergency life-saving transfusion, she, unwittingly, became the recipient of enhanced DNA from a rare, melanistic jaguar, transforming her into a...

A man is waiting for his girlfriend, when he sees the most beautiful woman in the world. The weird thing is, she claims to be his girlfriend. But she's never looked anything like this at all. Is he going crazy? Is she playing a...

Balancing high school and being a Legend is is more than they bargained for.Scarlett and Briana are tested by a new relationship. Allison and Connor stumble upon a gruesome murder that hits close to home and tears them apart.With changes to the prophecy, Vistrus...

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...

The Almasi Ya Kifo diamonds, respected, esteemed and celebrated by many... feared, cursed and despised by others.These mysterious gemstones possess an energy that can bring good fortune and protection from harm to those that possess them. Whereas for others, there is profound calamity and...

Introducing "It Was Just Another Day in America," a thought-provoking book by Ryan David Ginsberg that explores a range of issues facing America today. Through eight short stories and a series of powerful poems, the author provides commentary on topics such as abortion rights,...

This is a book that will surely educate, entertain, as well as enlighten its readers. Never has social, as well as political issues of the day been introduced to its readers in such a way that children and adults of all ages can comprehend.Author:...

A pop idol in near future Japan. Her every move controlled in the present and haunted by the past.The stage is the surveillance society of near-future Tokyo. In order to become an idol, Rei has sacrificed her private life as she focuses on her...

A love story. A dream. A journey. An awakening. A race against time.A story that has never been told. A story about a man and a woman. A father and a son. Two friends. A story of a life rewritten. Finding truth in life...

Known for his Saint John-based novels, Jerrod Edson enters the world of speculative literature with The Boulevard, an ambitious novel featuring Ernest Hemingway, Vincent van Gogh, Satan, and a train ride through Hell. For the first time since Satan's banishment, God plans a visit...

A Cuban curandera who is haunted by the ghost of the doctor she is rumored to have killed. A 20th century matchmaker who refuses to admit the truth about a new client. One night with an invisible waitress and the customers she serves in...

Richard Jameson Morgan (1850-1906) was a pioneering American newspaperman, Congregationalist minister, lecturer, and author based in Florida, where he edited and published the Sub-Peninsula Sun and St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) newspapers. In 1902, Florida Magazine serialized his sci-fi novella that recounts...

A petty thief known as John Smith was arrested for fraudulent behavior in 1877. He tricked women into thinking he was rich, then stole their belongings and vanished. His guilt was obvious. In 1852, Adler and Adolf Beck's father died on an expedition to...

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...

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,...

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...