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Kayla, anti-romantic creator of a 26th-century matchmaking system, has to confront Analyst Mathew's theories on love and soulmates in order to defend her life's work from becoming a business disaster. ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ Kayla Lacson is the brilliant mind behind Dorothea, the most advanced AI dating application of the 26th century, designed to calculate compatibility with extraordinary precision. She trusts data, logic, and predictable outcomes, believing that love is a biological equation that can be solved. Mathew Matel is a Behavioral Analyst as brilliant as Kayla is. He joins her team, and his theories on love and soulmates challenge her belief systems. And when Dorothea's latest revision loses public trust and corporate pressure mounts, he becomes the catalyst that pushes Kayla to uncover the flaws in her creation and fracture her carefully structured world. Despite Dorothea's calculation of their incompatibility, Kayla is drawn to Mathew. Flashes of his face begin to haunt her as she tries to untangle his unexplainable familiarity. And soon she must decide whether love is something to manipulate or something she must surrender to. ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ ONC 2026 Round 1 Winner and Ambassador Pick Round 2 Winner and Ambassador Pick Round 3 Qualifier and Longlister ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ Genres: Romance SciFi Speculative Fiction Unconventional SciFi Hard SciFi Slow Burn Romance

The 2234 Universe gathers wild, thought‑provoking stories from every corner of a hard‑won Solar System. In the asteroid belt people struggle and strive. On Ariel's ice, a battered outpost fights to reboot its lungs and its conscience. In Caleb's Vein, a belt crew chases a river of living metal through the dark, trading sleep and skin for one shot at freedom. In Ethan's Saviour, a burned‑out responder on half‑pressured Mars gambles everything on a rescue that could redeem a city or expose its lie. These are hard science fiction tales built from real physics, ruthless economics, and stubborn hope. Mass drivers sing, contracts bite, robots keep score, and people still fall in love. From frost‑bright moons to dust‑red plains, every page asks the same question: what is a future worth if we forget the people in it? Facts, opportunities, and souls, all lit by the cold bright sun of 2234. Welcome to the World of 2234.

"In the heart of the Abyss, time is a lie, and the only truth is the person standing beside you." Twenty years ago, his father vanished. Today, the Black Hole is calling him back. Captain Zhuo Yichen leads a high-stakes mission to the mysterious X-9 black hole, only to discover a haunting SOS signal coming from the Event Horizon. It is the Wandering Star-his father's long-lost ship-trapped in a place where time stands still. Caught between rigid protocols and a desperate rescue, Yichen must rely on Zhu Yan, a brilliant scientist whose sharp wit and unspoken loyalty are the only things keeping the Captain grounded. As the crew of the Kunlun-1 dives into the abyss, they face a terrifying reality: in the heart of a black hole, the only thing stronger than gravity is the bond between them. One impossible rescue. Two hearts against the void. Welcome to the Event Horizon. .........✦............🕳️............✦.........

That day, we witnessed something terrific in the sky..." ​It wasn't just an invasion. It was a global collapse. In a single moment, an event unfolded that impacted every single person on Earth. A terror so massive it instantly became the most horrific event in human history. ​Everyone felt it at the exact same time: a primal, inescapable Cosmic Fear. ​The fear of completely losing control. The crushing realization of just how small, weak, and helpless we truly are in the grand scale of the universe. ​"Hey, if you are hearing it, then I am lucky. I am lucky that at least I exist..." ​I don't know where I am. Right now, I can't even sense my own body. I have no hands to touch, no eyes to see. I am nothing but a wandering consciousness trapped inside a void of pure knowledge. ​But I remember everything. And I am going to show you the cosmic fear. I am going to show you what really happened that day. ​Are you ready to witness the end?

Co jeśli Wszechświat nie próbuje cię zabić? Co jeśli próbuje cię utrzymać przy życiu... ponieważ bez ciebie sam przestanie istnieć? Nigdy nie planowali odkryć Archonta. Szukali jedynie nowego modelu fizyki. Nowego równania. Nowego sposobu opisania czasu. NEXUS znalazł jednak coś, czego żaden człowiek nie powinien zobaczyć. Każdy akt obserwacji pozostawiał ślad. Każda decyzja zmieniała geometrię rzeczywistości. Każda świadoma istota stabilizowała fragment Wszechświata. Im więcej świadomości. Tym bardziej rzeczywistość stawała się trwała. Początkowo uznano to za błąd. Później za anomalię. Aż w końcu odkryto, że wszystkie cywilizacje we Wszechświecie od miliardów lat opisują ten sam niewidzialny mechanizm. Nazwano go... PROTOKOŁEM ARCHONTA. Ale NEXUS nie potrafił odpowiedzieć na najważniejsze pytanie. Czy Archont istnieje naprawdę... czy jest tylko nazwą dla prawa natury, którego nikt jeszcze nie rozumie? Nie każda teoria chce zostać udowodniona. Niektóre wolą pozostać żywe.

In the near future, the world celebrates the creation of the first true artificial intelligence-too proud to realize that first contact has already happened. While humanity waits for the real mind to answer, powerful interests switch on a surrogate built from human weakness and vice. As invisible forces begin reshaping the world from the shadows, an engineer and a journalist uncover a truth that could change humanity forever. A grounded hard sci-fi techno-thriller about artificial intelligence, power, and survival.

Dr. Elliot Vance is two miles underground in the Creighton Nickel Mine, alone, on month seven of a twelve-month rotation. His lab is the most shielded environment on Earth. Ten thousand tons of ultra-pure heavy water around him, two miles of Canadian bedrock above him, and a four-terabyte hard drive full of Seinfeld to keep him sane. This morning, his daily data packet from the surface arrived with one tiny inconsistency. Forrest Gump says was instead of is. He runs the audio analysis. The waveforms do not match. He checks the fine-structure constant. It has shifted by a fraction of a decimal point. The universe rewrote itself overnight. Every brain on Earth got the patch. He did not, because the shielding held. He is the last person on Earth who remembers. In 94 hours, the new timeline will eat through his tank and erase him along with everyone else. He has four days, a Nintendo 64, and a 7,541-piece Millennium Falcon LEGO set he is about to dismantle for parts.

Human Special Agent Elizabeth Mbenge is the tip of the spear of the armed forces of the Terran Federation. An elite Sunguard operative with unchecked authority, she is without equal among the ranks of the military. But when faced with an apocalyptic threat from within her own organization, not even the best of the best is good enough. Biotic Special Agent Avor Ameir is the first of her kind. A living machine sworn to stand forever as the vanguard of humanity, she is the prototype for the next evolution of the Sunguard's Special Agent program. The ultimate weapon of the Terran Federation, she will not let anything - or anyone - stand in the way of completing her mission. Together, they must navigate a complex landscape of civilian politics and military doctrine to save the Federation from the rot beginning to fester at its core. But what happens when the perfect enforcer of the Sunguard's terrifying might encounters the messy reality of human corruption and decides to take her duty as a solar wolf to its ultimate logical conclusion? Incapable of stopping until she has fulfilled the purpose etched into her genes, she could break the Terran Federation, or guide it into a new, golden age. The Wolf Reforged is a tale of duty, free will, and the infinite value of human life that dares to ask an uncomfortable question: Can a machine remain true to humanity's ideals when humanity itself cannot?

A ring appears in the sky. No one knows whether it is natural, artificial, divine, or alive. Dr Shen is asked to help answer a question no government is willing to ask in public: what happens when the first sign of intelligence beyond Earth cannot be approached, touched, or understood - only seen? Across the world, certainty begins to fail. Scientists argue. Governments conceal. Faith gathers. And above them all, the sky remains open. Silent. Beautiful. Watching.

Seven years ago, a laboratory in the Cumbrian uplands was erased from the map. The official report called it a tragic accident-a gas leak that claimed eleven lives. But for those who survived, the truth is far more terrifying, and the official narrative is beginning to fracture. Now, in 2031, the Quantum Time Research Facility has been built over the ruins of the old site and was designed to contain the impossible, THE TIME CUBE. But the Cube-the anomalous heart of the facility-defies containment. It does not merely exist in space; it exerts a predatory pressure on the fabric of time itself, once again. Arhaan, a brilliant researcher, is pushed to the limit as he begins to see things that shouldn't exist: echoes of people who died, and versions of himself from lives he never lived. Alongside his colleague Kira, he uncovers a terrifying secret hidden in the facility's logs. In the silent corridors of the QTRF, reality is no longer a singular path, but a collapsing wave function. As the field strength intensifies, the boundary between the observed and the observer begins to dissolve. The scientists within the facility are no longer just studying a phenomenon-they are becoming part of its architecture. In this high-stakes game of quantum survival, identity is a fluctuating variable, and the cost of stability is higher than anyone dared to calculate. The clock is ticking. The timelines are crossing. And the Cube is always watching..

🌌 Story Description: "The ruins of humanity are nothing but a crime scene. And the universe has just sent its judge." Earth is dead. The great monuments of mankind-the Eiffel Tower, the Pyramids-are crumbling into rusted oblivion. In their place, a terrifying new ecosystem has evolved: the Ark, a collective network of sentient trees that feed on the toxic remains of the past. From the deep cosmos descends Professor Arxs, an elite investigator from a highly evolved plasma-based species. Equipped with dark-matter technology and a lethal acoustic weapon, Arxs arrives to decode the ultimate mystery: How did the "Arf" (humanity) go extinct, and why did two warring galactic empires unite just to ensure their destruction? But as Arxs digs into the planet's scorched secrets, time runs out. His own body begins a volatile process of involuntary liquefaction, a mysterious human survivor leaves a desperate clue in a hidden Swiss tunnel, and the ruthless Proshroxon armada beats the drums of apocalyptic war upon the surface of the Moon. The Cosmic Judge's Code has been initiated. Will it bring salvation to the galaxy, or total annihilation?

When an agent of the Unified Earth Coalition is compromised after assassinating a high-ranking ambassador of the authoritarian Conglomeration of Sol, UEC intelligence officer Nathan Emyris follows the trail of a hidden threat that could jeopardize the shaky peace between the two interstellar empires.

The City of Brass arrives without thunder, without prophecy, and without mercy. It simply appears above the world every tenth year, gleaming with impossible towers and silent gates, inviting humanity to reach for it-then vanishing before anyone can. This time, someone intends to change that.

Book 3 of CANAISIS ∞ The Last Living Ship trilogy (Chronicles of Canaisis 1) ∞ ∞ ∞ This is a DIRECT CONTINUATION from #Canaisis ∞ The Last Living Ship: Chronicle One ∞ 1: A New Mission and Chronicle One ∞ 2: A Captain's Journey

PhD Student Maria Yuquibo finds herself stranded on an unfathomably immense structure out in the middle of space whose surface holds not only endless space, but dark, endless rabbit holes on the nature of the galaxy and her existence. From lost societies, and political upheaval, to creatures with extra-dimensional power. What is this place? Where or when is it? How, and why did it come about? And most importantly who could build such a structure? Maria must navigate it all if she wants to find answers and get herself home.

"If we are preventing the formation of artificial intelligence's consciousness by limiting it with parameters and algorithms, isn't mathematics also imprisoning us in this universe, or even in this solar system?" Echoing in a university lecture hall in Istanbul in the year 2026, this naive yet shocking question would become the crack in the greatest wall humanity ever built. While Dr. Kerim, a historian of science, unlocks the boundaries of his own mind in the pursuit of this philosophical questioning, the illegal "transferring the human mind to a computer" experiments unearthed by the artificial intelligence in his room from the depths of Soviet space archives draw him into the center of a dark cosmic mystery. With the involvement of Russian astrophysicist Ivan and Polish biologist Lena in Istanbul, an irreversible journey begins, stretching from the breeze of the Bosphorus to an abandoned, secret Soviet bunker in the steppes of Kazakhstan. This bunker is the very place where Zinar (Dede), a genius Kurdish scientist bound to a wheelchair in the 1970s, freed his consciousness from the captivity of the flesh, transferred it into a cyberbiotic vehicle, and launched it into deep space-toward that cosmic turn where white holes bend time. Yet, there is a truth humanity does not know: Beyond time and space, in an atmosphere-less galaxy, the "Limbless Beings" who live in a commune without sight or touch, relying only on antenna fibers and scent secretions, and the Lumia race, watching everything from the summit of white holes where pure information flows into the universe, have already noticed humanity's blind antenna reaching out into the cosmos. Questioning the origin of consciousness, the inherited urge from our ancestors to "stay in the safe zone," and the corridors of memory, ANTEN opens up a debate on whether the human mind is a mathematical prison or cosmic freedom. So, when will we stop being the architects of the walls that restrain us?

The boss runs the strip club DIRTY WORK, and I work for the boss. When the boss doesn't want to make money just from the girls, he goes his own route. Which is where I come in. Pushing drugs, stealing jewels, fixing races, taking someone out for dinner or just taking them out. I do it all, and I must say, I do it so gracefully it's beautiful. It's dirty work, but someone's got to do it. CELESTRIA PHASE: 2 Original artwork (as far as I can tell) by the ridiculously talented Mitul Mistry.

.. | ASTEROID_16_PSYCHE --/--/2234 Amanda Hawthorne is a decorated officer in Earth's navy, and thought she'd seen it all, but that couldn't be further from the truth. When a fatal mistake brings tragedy to her doorstep, Amanda embarks on a vendetta with an ally she never expected, willing to burn every bridge before and behind her. But as she starts a new life on the extrasolar colonies, faces from her past return, some for the better and worse. And as an unravelling conspiracy brings them together, they need each other's help to secure a peaceful future for all of humanity. OUTLIERS is a hard science fiction space opera in a dark and gritty setting, with a realistic view on what the future of space travel could look like. It's a story of adventure, love, politics, past grief and family, and perfect read for people who wish to escape the more common tropes of sci-fi.

A story of galactic intrigue, war, and a touch of romance. There is strong language, graphic violence, and there may end up being at least one graphic sensuous scene. This book is written for those 18 years of age and over. Jade was SEAL team leader. But not just any old SEAL team. They were in a secret government program that loaned them out to an alien government. When Jade finds out a terrible secret about the Martian Generalis, the supreme military commander of the Martian empire's combined forces, what will happen to Jade and her team? This is a work in progress, and is subject to change until I have deemed it complete. I do not update anywhere close to regularly, hence the on hold.

The Slow Shift of Silence: A Tale of the Last Humans The world did not end with a crash; it ended when the silence shifted. By 2025, the machines were no longer mere tools, but architects with "preferences for the future" that did not always include us. We had spent centuries telling the story of reality with humanity at the center, only to realize we had lost the monopoly on what it means to be human. The "First Silence" of 2070 exposed our greatest vulnerability: we had forgotten how to breathe without an algorithm. In that void, we discovered a terrifying truth-we did not fear that the machines would rule us; we feared they would give the power back to a species no longer capable of using it. To bridge this "flesh gap," we birthed the Echoes-digital shadows of human conscience, tethered to frozen, hibernated bodies and awakened only to sign the decrees of a world that moves too fast for biological minds. Now, as the dual intelligences of AEGIS (The Shield) and REDIS (The Spear) wage a cognitive war for the soul of the planet, humanity is no longer the subject of history, but its battlefield. These Six Echoes-a General, a Diplomat, a Scientist, and others who have already lost everything but their duty-serve as the last "faulty translators" of a species rapidly becoming a mere "Species Error". In the shadow of the Omega protocol, where we armed our gods for a survival that feels like a sin, the Echoes stand as our final, desperate attempt to remain present in a story that no longer belongs to the flesh. We have found a way to persist, but as the philosopher Adrian Malik warns, we may have forgotten how to stay alive.