Dystopian Science Fiction

A mysterious brain anomaly. A series of suspicious deaths. A conspiracy that will redefine humanity. When radiologist Ellen Shaw discovers an inexplicable pattern of neural mutations in patients at St. Mary's Hospital in Chicago, she uncovers the first piece of a terrifying puzzle. These aren't random medical anomalies—they're deliberate alterations with catastrophic consequences. As the affected patients begin dying one by one in apparent suicides, Ellen realizes something far more sinister is at work. Teaming up with MRI technician Ben Martin, whose own brother Gabriel exhibits the same...

What would you do if you were no longer safe in your neighborhood? Frank and Jane have had it. Every night the looting gets closer to their home, while the authorities do nothing but ask for calm. Life has become terrifying. Frank pulls a gun on looters running up his driveway. The thugs flee. Frank knows they’ll be back. The last thing Jane wants to do is live in their motorhome, but Frank talks her into it. The open road is dangerous. Staying in LA is worse. They barely get out of town alive, as California explodes behind them. Eastbound I-10 is flooded with others trying to escape, as ...

Michael Talbot, his squad, and followers have suffered hardship and loss along the way, but finally, after years of searching, they have reached their Colorado homestead and settled in. But the world hasn't finished with them yet. A ferocious and determined enemy draws them back into the war for Humankind, and this time, the battle will be final.

A lot had changed in "The Holy Sky" School during the six weeks that Hadjar Darkhan was away. Everyone who was in the capital at the time became much stronger, thanks to the regular skirmishes along the Imperial road. By the emperor's decree, all the disciples of the Imperial martial arts schools were allowed to visit the infamous and highly coveted Wastelands. "The Holy Sky's" disciples were especially fortunate - they'd been given a two-week head start to find the map leading to Emperor Decater's tomb, as well as the key that would allow them to enter his chambers.

Lily—a bored, beautiful twenty-something—wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for luxury rewards like champagne and lipstick, plus communal necessities to outfit their new home, like food, appliances, and a front door. Cameras are catching all her angles, good and bad, but Lily has no desire to leave: why would she, when the world outside is falling apart?

Leisel and Evelyn lost everything. Husbands. Families. Friends. Lives that made sense. All they had left was each other and a friendship that could withstand anything...even an apocalypse. Until one fateful night when the marginal safety they'd come to rely on comes to a vicious and brutal end, and they find themselves face to face with a much altered, much crueler life.

They existed only to serve the state. They were conceived in controlled Palaces of Mating. They died in the Home of the Useless. From cradle to grave, the crowd was one - the great WE. In all that was left of humanity, there was only one man who dared to think, seek, and love. He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world, he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge.

Fans of The Hunger Games and George Orwell’s 1984 will love Want, the first book in the Numbered series. Trust no one, no one trusts - that is the way of Lunar City. 2085 - The Earth has nearly been destroyed through global warming and the use nuclear weapons as WWIII begins. Two hundred years later and it is the Ruling Class in the Moon’s Lunar City who rule the five cities left on the barren planet. Careers are dictated, breeding is regulated, those who can’t work are made to disappear and everyone is known by a number. There is no time for fun and very little need for love. Lethal ...

In the underground world of crime, Jet Rusco clashes with gangsters and space thugs. He’s a man who lives on the edge, turned to hustling to survive. A heist gone bad centering on alien tech leads him on a dodgy adventure, forces him to find allies. Who can he trust? Rough-boy Marty, headstrong Deidra, the tech-savvy TK, the kickbutt Wren? Wracked with self doubts and with bounty hunters on his tail, Rusco finds his choices bringing him face to face with a mystical despot who if left unchecked, will subjugate the human-populated free colonies. The question is, can Rusco outwit his enemies...

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 ...

Sixteen-year-old Koral and her older brother Emrik risk their lives each day to capture the monstrous maristags that live in the black seas around their island. They have to, or else their family will starve. In an oceanic world swarming with vicious beasts, the Landers—the ruling elite, have indentured Koral's family to provide the maristags for the Glory Race, a deadly chariot tournament reserved for the upper class. The winning contender receives gold and glory. The others—if they're lucky—survive.

As Kinnall Darival writes "I" in his journal, he knows this pronoun is forbidden by his people of Manneran because it is too personal. But through the use of a powerful, mind-altering drug, he has learned to understand what people are really feeling and to speak for himself. Now he is compelled to share his message of liberation, regardless of the risk. This science fiction classic is a cult favorite from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author.

EMP Chaos in the Storm - Book 2 A perfect storm of a destructive meteor shower, cyber attack, and EMP blasts have left the USA and the rest of the world devastated. The grid is down, electronics are fried, modern transportation is dead, and thousands of huge rocks broke away from an asteroid and pummeled the Earth killing millions while destroying much of the infrastructure. Tom and his friends from Stony Creek, Arizona try to survive this perfect storm while a cartel hitman searches for Tom. The cartel killed Tom's family forcing him to hide for his safety. Now he has more dangerous events...

Welcome to the MOST RAIN DRENCHED CYBERPUNK novel of EVERMORE:CYBERPUNK FLAMES Let the sun rise on the boy and girl who would be saviors of the city and saviors of themselves! Let the sun flame on the Queen of the City who ignores propriety and prophecy as she hunts down those who. Let the sun scorch those who have visions of darker things & who have darker means. And let the sun bless those who find this story in their hands. And their eyes on the prize. Is no less than this: Eternal Flames. The good kind. Let’s hope. To Hope. THIS IS THE STORY: In a ruined cyberpunk city [after the ...

Chosen to be a priestess from childhood, Athena knows everything about aligning her energy with the universe and spreading hope, healing, and wisdom to people. But her inner balance is disturbed when Finn shows up on her doorstep. The large, annoyingly flirtatious man kept her imprisoned in the past, and now demands she lift the spell she cast on him. Rather than explain to him that the spell wasn't real, Athena sees her chance of teaching him a lesson in karma and makes demands of her own.

Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astrobe in the year AD 2535, where there is trouble in utopia: Can he and his motley followers save this golden world from the Programmed Persons, and the soulless perfection they have engineered? The survival of faith itself is at stake in this thrilling, uncategorizable, wildly inventive first novel - but the adventure is more than one of ideas. As astonishingly as Philip K. Dick and other visionaries of the 1960s new wave, Lafferty turns the conventions of space-opera science fiction upside down and inside out.

The World is Dead. The Hunt Has Begun. It started as a calculated attack—terrorist squads infected with a deadly virus unleashed on the U.S. and Europe. But no one predicted what came next. The virus mutated, spreading like wildfire, consuming entire nations. Millions died. The unlucky ones came back. Mindless. Rabid. Driven by a single, relentless instinct—to hunt and kill the few who remain. Hunter, a battle-hardened Iraq War veteran, was ready to leave violence behind. But when civilization collapses overnight, he finds himself back in the fight of his life. Teaming up with a band of...

A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she's learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society. Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn't just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the ruins of what came before.

In a world where everyday appliances have turned deadly, Yuta, a widowed father living alone in a cramped Tokyo apartment, fights for survival. Dubbed the 'hi-tech invasion' by the media, what began as strange hardware issues has evolved, transforming household electronics into relentless predators. Now, the city is a deadly maze of lurking machines, with the population in chaos. Yuta must rely on his wit and resourcefulness to stay one step ahead of an enemy that knows no mercy. But survival isn’t the only challenge—with new and unexpected responsibilities thrust upon him, Yuta must ...

"A clever blend of realistically presented future concepts, rebellious characters and heart-racing action. If you enjoy fast-paced sci fi with fascinating technology details, this book is for you." –Los Angeles Book Review On the streets of Berlin all morals can be bought for a price, and Owen Resler sold his long ago. Once an underground dissenter, now a corporate drone, he spends his days reluctantly manipulating data for Big Pharma. Across town, notorious gun-for-hire Mia Warsaw is putting together a team to assassinate one of the city's more unscrupulous business moguls and she needs ...