Dystopian Science Fiction

Who knew that escaping reality might just be the way we destroy it? Will Robin does what no one should: pluck microchips from people’s heads. In an age where AI has been fully integrated with human life, Will clearly sees what everyone else doesn’t; that it’s a ploy for control and power. What started out as using his skill to exercise his own free will quickly became a passion and a mission to free the world around him. Even if it’s just one pluck at a time. When the government gets wind of this, they target Will, and it sets off a cascade of events that threatens to take the one ...

Infiltrator, Forager Series, Book Two *** 83,500 words *** For Ethan Jones, Nanako, and the surviving members of his foraging team, the trip back to Newhome is a nightmarish journey fraught with danger. When they do get back to Newhome, Nanako's dreams of a normal life are shattered when Ethan's jilted ex-fiancé makes it her personal goal to turn Nanako's life into a living hell. And as if that isn't enough, she and Ethan fall afoul of a senior officer of the town's draconian Custodian police force. To complicate matters, more memory fragments from Ethan's missing year surface, bewildering...

Deep underground, 39 women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the 40th prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others’ escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.

THE LAST STARSHIP Before her sentencing for a murder she did not commit, River Langstrom had been an external station repair technician aboard the space station Danbury. Hovering in a geostationary orbit above what had once been the North American continent, Danbury, a massive spoked wheel, was home for ten thousand colonials, refugees from Earth. Two hundred years earlier, Earth’s atmosphere was rendered toxic in a catastrophic conflict now long forgotten. Despite its many dangers, River found working in the vacuum of space both challenging and exciting, or at least she did before her ...

"They're after you. But which you...?" Mistaken for her imperiled, notorious genius scientist alter ego, Laney's accidental trip to a parallel world could very quickly turn very deadly. Dr. Laney Carter is a Nobel-prize-winning physicist, awarded for her groundbreaking experimental research on string theory and quantum universes, and then led her team to successfully develop the first working prototype allowing safe, stable and educational inter-dimension travel. Two months ago, she disappeared. So did the prototype. So, why are there government trackers hunting down seventeen-year-old ...

HUMANITY’S LAST HOPE... The clock is ticking to stop a second asteroid from striking Earth, and Elliot Adams is humanity’s only chance. But saving his home world will push him and his friends to their limits as they return to a planet torn apart by devastation. Beneath the ruins, salvation may lie—if they can survive long enough to find it. Earth, however, isn’t the only battleground. On Lunar, strange occurrences threaten the fragile peace, and the Telvanni’s thirst for vengeance burns brighter than ever. With deadly secrets uncovered and enemies closer than they appear, Elliot ...

It began on New Year’s Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed - and more than half of the world’s population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place.

For a decade, Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind at the edge of his sword, he must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury. But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance.

The Games of the Atlantis Grail have come to a ground-shaking halt and Gwen Lark, nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl, survived the remarkable ordeal, for the time being. But the worst is yet to come! Now, both the colony planet Atlantis and Earth are under a threat of annihilation, and everything is up in the air, including dire and stunning wonders in the Atlantean skies. Will there be a Wedding? Will there be a future for Gwen Lark, her beloved, and all their families, friends, and loved ones?

California is on the edge of disaster. The banks are nearing collapse. Fear rises. The State Government can't cover its pension payments. Talking heads argue, while retirees wonder when their next check is coming. Unrest grows. There's murder in the streets. Gangs terrorize the population in the big cities - Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Sacramento. It's not just gangs, though. Somebody else is stirring things up. Who? Why are they doing it? People flee if they're able. The military tries to shore up its bases in San Diego. Unrest continues to build. Local law enforcement can't...

Mature readers only: intense combat, graphic violence, horror elements, some sex, some language. In future America, the downloaded consciousnesses in the Ten Sigma Program fight endless battles. The struggles span all possibilities: face-offs with knives and clubs, skirmishes as Roman legionaries, pitched WW1 trench warfare, duels with ultra-modern hypersonic weapons, and everything in between. The combatants who live are rewarded with another battle until they reach the unreachable score of ten sigmas. Those who die are expunged from the system, gone forever. The methods, so harsh they go ...

Edited by Frankie Sutton July 17th 2011. The peacekeepers travel to Saginaw Michigan in the hopes of locating the factory where the alloy that composes the backbone of their technology was manufactured. They locate the owner of the factory and a trade arrangement is worked out that will secure the peacekeepers a supply of the alloy. A boat loaded with the sick and the dead washes ashore in southern Louisiana. One of the passengers makes it to a small city and hitches a ride with a kind hearted man who transports him to New Orleans. Along the way they stop at every small town gathering food ...

A psychotic modern-day shaman caught in a zombie apocalypse without her meds. Scientific studies of Jocelyn Radomski, immune to a zombie pathogen, may lead to a cure. But first she must find a military safe zone in a world of countless zombies and few survivors. Fortunately, she possesses shamanic and zombie-like powers. And a tenth-century magic sword forged to fight zombies. But without her meds, no one is safe from her violent psychotic breaks. Especially the eclectic band of survivors pledged to her cause. Overwhelmed with guilt at what she has become, Jocelyn is driven by the hope that...

America is under attack! Bug Out! Texas is the story of Texas Patriots who fight the invaders. In the Bug Out! Texas Book 2, Texas prepares for battle as a new Republic. Bug Out! Texas Book 3 - Republic in Peril continues the action, adventure, and romance behind the sealed borders of Texas Texas is on her own now. She must fight foreign invaders while protecting herself against an out-of-control Federal Government. Islamist Fighters flood into Texas by the hundreds of thousands. How are they getting there? Cities large and small are attacked by Islamic Terrorists with tanks and infantry. ...

Le monde s’écroule. Les dieux dorment depuis trop longtemps. Partout, des guerres éclatent. Les humains se soulèvent contre la souveraineté des elfes qui se déchirent entre eux. Quelque chose patiente dans les ténèbres, déterminée à faire basculer les Terres Mères. C’est dans ce sombre contexte qu’Azaëlla apprend l’assassinat de ses pères. Pour retrouver les responsables, elle opte pour un choix aussi radical que douloureux : négocier les services d’un conteur-d’os afin de se plonger dans leurs souvenirs contenus dans leurs ossements.

In a world ravaged by endless conflict, two nations (The Civillains and Psyclops) stand on the brink of annihilation, divided by their desperate struggle for a resource more precious than any other. Amidst the desolation of a once-thriving planet, the fate of millions rests on the deployment of the most devastating weapon ever conceived—the Thermal Heat Ignition Nuclear Gun. Powered by the sun’s potent energy, this weapon promises not just victory but the total eradication of the enemy. In this gripping dystopian tale, the very essence of humanity are tested in the shadow of the ...

Five years after a pneumonic plague killed two-thirds of the world’s population, army veteran Marcus Battle is isolated. He’s alone with his guns, his food, and the graves of his wife and child. If anyone steps onto his property he shoots first and never ask questions. But when a woman in distress, chased by marauders, seeks asylum, Marcus has a decision to make.

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within.

Sixteen-year-old Nate is a Gem - a Genetically Engineered Medical Surrogate - created by Gathos City scientists as a cure for the elite from the fatal lung-rot ravaging the population. As a child, Nate was smuggled out of the laboratory where he was held captive and taken into the Withers - a quarantined, lawless region. He manages to survive by becoming a Tinkerer, fixing broken tech in exchange for food or a safe place to sleep. When he meets Reed, a kind and fiercely protective boy who makes his heart race, Nate finds the family he's always longed for.

In our own time, when the dark threat of a dystopian world is not an alien or avoidable concept, The Last Man (1826) is revealed as a trailblazing novel. With a truly global view, Mary Shelley’s futuristic romain à clef–containing portraits of her husband Percy (Adrian), Lord Byron (Raymond) and several others–spearheaded the apocalyptic genre for an intimidated 19th-century readership that rejected her ‘diseased imagination’ and ‘polluted taste’.