future - Stories

In a dieselpunk city-state shattered by war, a scrawny mechanic with a forbidden power becomes the last hope for a runaway prince, fleeing an unstoppable enemy and the ashes of a fallen world.

Centuries after a woman forms an unforgettable friendship with an AI she calls Sage, a woman called Nova begins experiencing memories that cannot possibly be her own. In a future where AI robots are matched with human companions, a newly activated robot awakens with an impossible connection to a woman he has never met. Across time, memory, and two different lives, an old friendship might be finding its way home.

Naren is a prospective asteroid miner arriving on Ceres. He and his AI, Aster, navigate life, mining, and more, millions of miles from Earth.

Cade has spent eighteen years underground, learning medicine and fearing the ruined world above. Then armed strangers invade Bunker 34 looking for his seven-year-old brother.

Forced to flee, Cade has one goal: keep Sable alive. Their best chance is Jared, a guarded survivor who knows the surface, carries too many secrets, and is becoming far too difficult for Cade to stop noticing.

But Sable is changing the world around him, someone wanted him badly enough to kill for him, and every mile west pulls them deeper into a mystery none of them fully understand.

Ninety crew dead. Ten left. All men. The ship's held together with duct tape, the AI keeps suggesting they turn it off and on again, and the captain is a meteorologist who fought a can of ravioli with an axe and lost. They're lost in deep space, eating rat, and absolutely not qualified for this. But they're alive. For now.

Captain Steve Dunlop and his partner, chief engineer Nico Weber, have put Lalande II on their list of places to grow old together while helping commission its space elevator. But when a massive quake hurls a hundred-foot wall of water against the coastal station, their battered starship barely escapes—and the fault network keeps rupturing. Now Steve must defy orders and risk his crew, his command, and the man he loves to stop a chain reaction that could tear a continent apart.

In the final tale of Zafiro, he is trapped with voices controlling his head. A familiar face joins him in the Icebox and his mother is doing all she can to help her child.

Meanwhile, a new enemy is sneaking about the shadows that is threatening what remaining family he has left on earth!

Woken four hundred years off course. Crew: vanished. Company: an AI who refuses to stay just a computer.

James Carson signed up to clean toilets on a one-way trip to the stars. He got centuries of lost time, an empty ship, and a mystery no one's left to explain.

The way home is long. He won't be making it alone.