Dystopian Science Fiction

Outthink. Outcraft. Kai and his wife are dying. Their only chance lies inside the Daisy Trials. This year, contestants must capture components, craft cards, and defeat their opponents in a merciless gauntlet where every decision matters. He’s trained for this moment his whole life—studying past Trials, memorizing every pattern. But so has everyone else, and they’re all just as motivated. Will Kai make it? Follow along in this dungeon crawling journey set in a post-apocalyptic world—perfect for fans of clever strategy, card games, and crafting.

Jason Sterling had a simple life by all accounts. He had worked the same job his entire adult life, he had never married, and he had no children. He was used to doing things on his own. His comfortable life was shaken to the core the day he learned of his fathers death. It was a mysterious meeting that set life-altering events in motion, and the allure of a new life was too great to walk away from. When an electromagnetic pulse brings the modern world to its knees, Jason's choice proves to be the right one.

Everyone knows who they are. This is how they began. Before the War Angels were legends, they were just people, soldiers—scattered, scarred, and trying to make sense of a broken world. Daryas: A Vanguard Origin follows one of the Coalition’s most iconic fighters through key moments of her life—from childhood survival, to the missions who broke her, to the challenge that changed everything. It’s a story of small choices, heavy consequences, and the people who helped shape her along the way. This is the first in a series of short stories exploring the origins of the War Angels—told ...

Powers She Never Wanted. Powers She Can’t Control… Being an orphan is never easy. For teenagers like Emily Heart, it’s nearly impossible when you’re living on the streets. Yet, none of this is her fault. Someone kidnapped her and rewired her DNA. Now every day is a struggle. Everyone wants a piece of her. All Emily wants is her old life back. A life filled with family, friends, and a future she can count on. But staying alive won’t be easy, not with powers she can’t control. Even the slightest emotion can send her rocketing forward through time, never knowing how far she’ll ...

In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. That’s why they’re banished for their 16th year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life - a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear.

This novel centers on the "It's me" telephone scam - often targeting the elderly - that has escalated in Japan in recent years. Typically, the caller identifies himself only by saying, "Hey, it's me", and goes on to claim in great distress that he's been in an accident or lost some money with which he was entrusted at work, etc., and needs funds wired to his account right away. ME's narrator is a nondescript young Tokyoite named Hitoshi Nagano.

The society is dangerously polarized. Violent mobs hit the streets. Some whispered a civil war was coming. Then the nukes went off. Survivors recruited freedom-loving citizens to armed resistance in Manhattan, Boston, and Valley Forge. The globalist enemy knows who to target… the hunt is on, but the resistance is wily, and supplied with technology from a billionaire industrialist. In Manhattan, enemy UN Peacekeepers and Islamists try to draw forces away from New City Hall and NYPD Headquarters, using the fear of Sarin gas which they placed in the Harlem National Guard Armory. Boston had ...

Enter the explosive world of the blockbuster Shatter Me series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi!

Five quiet years of the apocalypse have passed in No Where… but that’s all about to change. Bob and Violet have four small mouths to feed. Then another pair is dumped in their laps, followed by two more. That makes eight. Life is hard enough in the UP of Northern Michigan, miles from anyone, in the middle of the apocalypse, and it just got worse. A band of marauders, on motorcycles no less, invade No Where. What they want is simple; they want everything and will stop at nothing to get it. Bob knows they won’t survive with the Winter Warriors in the area. Violet agrees, Wilson agrees. ...

The society is dangerously polarized. Violent mobs hit the streets. Some whispered a civil war was coming. Then the nukes went off. Survivors recruited freedom-loving citizens to armed resistance in Manhattan, Boston, and Philadelphia. The globalist enemy knows who to target… the hunt is on, but the resistance is wily, and supplied with technology from a billionaire industrialist. In Manhattan, the UN is preparing for a wave attack with their Islamist allies. They’re placing munitions all over the island. Will Mayor Fine’s team see it in time? Boston is still a battleground, the UN ...

America is under attack! Bug Out! Texas is the story of Texas Patriots who fight the invaders. In Bug Out! Texas Book 11, the Fort Stockton Group fought the Battle of Dallas at great cost. In the gulf, the DPS Patrol Boat team was all but destroyed, with Richardson and Juan Carlos wounded. Bug Out! Texas Book 12 – The Gulf of Death continues the story of the war for Texas. The enemy is losing the battle for Dallas, but they aren’t giving up. They’ve found a new way to sneak people around un-detected. Our heroes figure out what they’re doing, but is it too late? Houston survived the ...

A fast-paced fifty-page short story book about two budding astronauts, a space hound named Chewie and a rather pissed off creature in the form of a Kraken. Contains epic storytelling, dark humor and general silliness.

Saff, a determined new doctor in the first year of her internship, had clawed her way out of a tumultuous past, only to be dragged back into it when the zombie outbreak hits. Forced to join her estranged father and his band of raiders, she's confronted with the harsh reality that desperation can make monsters out of anyone—even her.

*This book has been retitled and republished as "Plastiphobia" with minor updates to the text. If you have already read this, you don't need to read that one, but if you are looking to read for the first time, I suggest you read the updated "Plastiphobia". Nonbinary, cis, straight, queer, PhD, GED, human, microbe, AI. Labels don’t matter when you’re trying to save the world…and maybe make a little money. It wasn't supposed to be able to survive outside the lab, but when the microbe escaped into the ocean, it not only survived, it thrived and changed. Now it consumed not only oil, but ...

As the relentless storm ravages the desert lands of Aridex, Nour and her remaining people seek refuge deep within Mount Everglace. Battling starvation, cold, and despair, Nour journeys to the Glass Home of the Others to ensure their survival. There, she finds the place empty and desolate, or at least to the eye… Meanwhile, Derry struggles to unlock his power, strange visions from the past haunt Gerda, and relationships strain under the weight of starvation, including Nour's bond with Yegie. Can Nour trust her companions and the New Council? What led the once-respected scientist Saiko to ...

He could’ve left Earth like everyone else. He stayed. He had his reasons. After the exodus, Will remains behind on a dying planet. The cities are hollow. The rules are gone. And so are the good people. Kicking an old addiction is hard enough. Trying to do it while pretending to be a cop? Nearly impossible. Especially after he opens the wrong cell and releases Jack—an unhinged killer with no conscience and no leash. Will tells himself he can fix it. That he still has purpose. That maybe Rachel, with her guarded heart, might even believe in him. But this broken world has other plans. As a...

Is loader worth dying for? Here is your modest size appetiser for the series. Much shorter than my life. Hi, I am Min. My story takes you to a dying Earth where hope is as rare as the life that once flourished. Lez and I, united by love and a desperate mission to save humanity, are determined to find the last remaining loader—a being with the power to change everything. Something about us persuaded Vist to help relocate our people to a distant colony beneath a red star. And this book is just beginning.

Desperate to escape the dangerous streets of Old Triton, the buried city, Milla takes the ultimate risk. Could a dead girl's identity be her way out? A ticket to a richer, brighter world? Now she's part of a high tech contest, with a prize beyond money, fame, and everything she has ever known. A chance to become something...new. But if anyone finds out who Milla really is, she's dead. The other competitors come from privilege, their faces and bodies tweaked to perfection. Rich and handsome Cale could be the most dangerous of all.

Lark Ainsley has waited for years to be selected for the harvest when a child's magic is taken to supply energy for the City. It's a rite of passage, marking the end of childhood. Yet when Lark's name is finally called, she discovers she's a Renewable, with enough magic to supply the City with power for the rest of her life. Now, to escape becoming a human battery, Lark must make a run for t out of the City, beyond the Wall, and into the unknown.

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the "Transition". Now, eating human meat - "special meat" - is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.