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SHADOW OF IMPERIUM  by Maerovigian9
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In the ashes of a fallen empire, one man carries the shadow of a thousand betrayals. The Supreme Imperium is no more. In its place rises the Supremacium-a cabal of zealots and conspirators who have erased history, silenced the old guard, and chained the Verge Galaxies under their tribute laws. Regent Thadeus Galantine, master of the Galactic Pantheon, rules with a hand as heavy as the void. Galek Kane Thaeron, once Lord Marshall of the First Fleet and heir of a noble house, has been cast down as a traitor. For ten Tetherhadron Cycles he has rotted in the prison-world of Perilion Prime, stripped of title, honor, and hope. But Kane's fall was no accident-it was a purge, meant to bury the truth of a murdered Emperor, a lost heir, and the vanishing of the Imperial Memorium itself. Now, with the aid of a cunning spy and a haunted psionic pilot, Kane escapes into the storm of rebellion. On the edges of the Verge he must forge unlikely alliances, uncover forbidden archives, and confront the mysteries the Supremacium has tried to erase. The fate of the galaxy trembles between shadow and flame-and Kane must decide whether he fights to restore the Imperium, or to forge something greater from its ruins. Shadow of Imperium begins the War-Giver Trilogy, a saga of betrayal, rebellion, and the last stand of empires.
Zee by ThomasHeasmanHunt
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In a Japanese laboratory, an experiment pushes cultural taboos by reaching deep into humanity's genetic past to produce an organism not seen on Earth for over four million years. What begins as a mere scientific curiosity spirals into events that will shape the future of our species - and theirs - as savage prehistory and troubled future collide. 'Zee' is a short sci-fi story that combines biopunk with anthropology, seeing a cruel near-future world through the confused eyes of a semi-sentient hominid. By holding a dark mirror up to homo sapiens, 'Zee' shows us how far we may yet fall, and what our ultimate fate might be if we are forced to answer for our crimes.
Edge of Eternity by KADowd
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Levi waits on the edge of Eternity, hoping for a way to escape his endless life where time and decay have no authority. When an approaching horde of monsters is spotted on the horizon, a stranger appears, quoting ancient literature and bearing unexpected gifts. Will this man provide the means of salvation Levi has been waiting for, or is he a destroyer who will bring about a permanent end to Levi's existence? 🏆🎉 Punk Fiction Winner of 2023 SciFi Holiday Contest on Eternity 🎉 🏆 Story Prompt, Death: "Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity." - John Milton Check out @WattpadPunkFiction to view all the different Punk Fiction Universes. This story taps into BioPunk & WattPunk.
The Rainbow Room by Thefahyexperience
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Abducted. Experimented on. Transformed. MengYuan becomes the unwilling vessel for something ancient and monstrous inside a pastel colored hell known only as the Rainbow Room. As her body mutates, her sanity slips and a new god prepares to be born through her.
Catalyst by PUhouse
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What if they controlled the water? Dehydration. Death. Dust. Alloy Houghton has never known anything else. Years before her time war, sickness, and greed tangled everything into a one-way course for destruction, yet life found a way. Under the maniacal rule of a dictator restricting water to anyone on the outside: she has two options, be who they want her to be or fight the system. In a strange set of events, Alloy is thrown into a world she never knew existed. A so-called rebel organization and an unknown power within her threatening everything she ever knew about her existence, an existence that may have been curated from the start. She's battling love and lies all while fighting for her life in an arena called The Bane, built for human battle and bloodshed. Omen. Bad Luck. Harbinger. Scavenger.
THE PASSENGER by GabrielNegus
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Ethan Rost was a hero-a firefighter, a husband, a father. The man who ran into the flames so others could live. But when cancer came for him, he took the miracle cure the world called Genesis, the patch for all human rot, the salvation sold in glossy ads and whispered boardrooms. It cured the tumors. It rewrote his cells. It promised forever. It never said who would live forever inside the rotting cage. Now Ethan is a Remnant-mind trapped behind bone and teeth, forced to watch as the monster in his skin tears through the world he died trying to protect. He can taste every scream. Hear every heartbeat before his hands rip it away. And in the static between kills, he finds others, a chorus of broken minds still awake inside their walking corpses. And far below the ruins, Connor Hale, the last scientist who warned them all, hides behind flickering screens and dying servers, fighting to crack the Genesis code before it devours the last hope for what makes us human. He knows the cure was a lie. He knows the monster is awake. And he knows some things should never be brought back from the grave. This is not your regular zombie apocalypse. No safe farmhouses. No cartoon headshots. No heroes with endless ammo and witty one-liners. This is the apocalypse from the inside out, the last fragments of memory and mercy fighting inside the gnashing teeth. THE PASSENGER is about what happens after the infection, after the flesh is gone, when the only thing left worth saving is your soul. They don't die. They don't sleep. And memory...is the only thing they can't kill.