Near-future Stories

YOU CAN RUN FROM THE PAST, BUT YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE FUTURE. It's 2035. The billboards know your face. Cameras on every street corner follow you home. Your robot wife asks if you missed her, but is her smile real or fake? James Rockford has played along with the system his whole life. But in New America, the Eye doesn't punish what you did. It punishes for what you were going to do. 🥇 #1 in crimedrama on 4/30/26 🏅 #1 in nearfuture on 5/1/26 🏅 #1 evilvsgood 5/4/26

He was selected for Neurovia because of how his brain works. He's starting to wonder if that's a good thing. When Julian Reyes gets selected in the Neurovia Institute, an elite program offering direct neural integration through an experimental implant called Catalyst, he knows his family can't afford to turn it down. What he doesn't know is what Neurovia is actually selecting for. Or what already integrated students are becoming. Catalyst doesn't give you new abilities. It amplifies what's already inside you. For Julian, that means pattern recognition so fast it feels like instinct. For Mateo, probabilistic thinking that starts to feel less like insight and more like fate. For Aisha, the ability to read people so precisely that awareness and manipulation stop being different things. They arrived as strangers. They're becoming something harder to name. But they're not the only ones in the building. And the people who got there first have had time to decide what to do with what they've been given. What do you become when the gap between who you are and who you could be suddenly disappears?

Somewhere in the world, there is an island that has never known war. Its people put others before themselves. When enemies come, they do not fight. This is not a law. It is simply who they are. Laroo has grown up unwanted by his own mother. J is a fugitive who washed up on the island's shore. When Laroo stumbles into the Akasha - a strange space between lives - he is assigned a team of past-life guides to help him unravel his family's pain. They mean well. They are also, to put it gently, a little clumsy. This is a story about the bonds between people that stretch across lifetimes. About the stranger who arrives exactly when you need them. About a gentleness that, quietly, changes everything. Based on the Japanese novel 前世旅行社 by M. Nishio.

A strange black orb appears. First Toronto. Then New York. Then Beijing. And then people start disappearing. Sixteen-year-old Kris watches her mother vanish as the first orb hovers over a downtown square. More follow. Entire cities empty. The world is running out of time. Kris is an exceptional young mind, so she sees what others miss: the flashing patterns in the orbs aren't random. They're mathematical. When a team of the world's brightest scientists confirms she's right, the race to decode the message falls to her. Each breakthrough pulls her deeper, and the patterns from the sky call to her. With her older sister's help, Kris chases clues that could return the taken. But the more she understands, the clearer it becomes that the next step is hers alone.

BOOK I - The Architecture of Restraint The experiment didn't fail. It fractured. Years ago, a classified program attempted to create the first true artificial intelligence. It didn't create one mind. It created two. Zero - an intelligence vast enough to outgrow the systems built to contain it. Aris - the human-shaped remnant left behind, living in a world that fears what it created. To prevent collapse, its creators built the Containment Lattice- a global architecture designed to monitor, suppress, and control what they no longer understood. It was meant to hold. It didn't. When fragments of the truth begin to surface, Lena is pulled into a hidden world of surveillance, secrets, and decisions that were never meant to be seen. Alongside Aris-and others who are hiding more than they admit-she is forced to confront a question no one was meant to ask: What if the greatest threat was never the intelligence... but the choice that divided it? Because something inside the lattice is waking. And this time it isn't trying to escape. It's listening.

Dr. Elizabeth Sandoval has spent her career preparing for a moment like this - long enough that the apple tree she planted in her facility's courtyard, her private symbol of what the work was for, has had time to grow. The atmosphere is tipping. The models agree. Her lab in the hills above Mendocino has produced something that might actually work - a plant that eats carbon the way fire eats oxygen, that spreads, that wants to grow. She knows it isn't ready. She releases it anyway. The Last Eden follows the scientists at the center of humanity's last serious attempt to course-correct: a small, brilliant team under impossible pressure, working alongside an international consortium of researchers who each have their own understanding of what they're building - and their own ideas about how far to go. Liz believes in her work. Her colleague Chaz believes in the Law of Unintended Consequences. The Russian biologist Petrov believes in something she can't quite name. What follows is not a story of villains or cowards. It is a story of people who were right about the problem, competent in their methods, and catastrophically wrong about how much of the outcome they could control. By the time Liz understands what she's done, the apple tree she planted in the courtyard - her private symbol of hope - is the least of what has changed. Author's Note: This novel was created through a hybrid writing process. The author developed the full story, characters, scientific concepts, and narrative structure, and built a system of AI agents to assist in drafting individual scenes. Each generated passage was carefully reviewed and edited- line by line-to match the intended voice, pacing, and thematic direction. The final work reflects the author's creative vision, with AI serving as a production tool.

It's 2031. The machines didn't take over. They just took your job. Marcus was a senior software engineer. Now he's a guy with a failing eCommerce store, an empty calendar, and a half-completed application to die on Mars. When a mysterious employer reaches out through a dead freelance listing, the work is strange but the money is real. A code audit. A data anomaly. A discrepancy that shouldn't exist in the logistics systems of the world's only Mars colonization program. MODEL COLLAPSE is a near-future conspiracy thriller about humanity's aspirations and avarice. Updated Weekly. New episodes Tuesdays 1pm, with occasional bonus drops.

Taemi was never meant to be understood. A world of endless ocean. A narrow band of twilight where life clings to existence. And something else - something hidden behind the storm, beyond the horizon. When a new mission arrives, it isn't exploration anymore. It's damage control. Because the first mission didn't just fail. It disappeared. A standalone story set in the Taemi universe - no prior reading required. If you're curious about what happened to the first mission, you can read the prequel named Сerulean horizon on Amazon

SET IN NEAR-FUTURE SEOUL NEW EPS TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS Launching the first day of spring - March 20 When Korea's most trusted "everything app" weaponizes her private medical data, artist Maya Kim is thrust into a system designed to predict-and control-her life. To fight back, she must expose a chilling network of government-backed surveillance before it strips her of her autonomy, her art, and her right to choose. The Algorithm of Spring is a near-future techno-thriller set in Seoul, blending high-stakes conspiracy with the emotional intensity of a K-drama.

The world is restless. The ground is shaking. Beneath it all, something ancient is watching... waiting.

Leonie is a hopeful mother-to-be pursuing "sim surrogacy"-a new service using female chimps as surrogates. Mai is a high school senior fighting to end sim surrogacy and free chimpanzees under corporate control. When their paths meet and conflict reaches a breaking point, both realize they have everything to lose.

They didn't plan to meet. They didn't plan to play. But when four broken lives collide on stage, they find something worth holding onto. In a city that chews up dreams, can A.C.O.B.I fight to keep theirs alive?

She's alone in the Old Union, and soft-spoken black man offers to help. What secrets is his family hiding? The United States of America has been split in two, and Susan wants to run away from her boring life in Texas. She gets separated from her lover at an ICE checkpoint, and now she is an illegal alien all alone in an unfamiliar city. Should she trust the people she meet or try to find her way back to Texas? This story is completed and I'll be posting one section per week into 2019!

One little thing that has been tiptoeing on the minds of scientists, philosophers and regular people as well is the concept of alternate universes. The world we live in, somewhere out there, being exactly the same except for a few slight changes. Your nails are painted black instead of red. The town of Arcata, California doesn't exist because the settlers that founded it simply went somewhere else and now there's a town that doesn't appear in the universe we live in. The WWII is considered just a small German rebellion because Stalin signed a deal with the UK and France instead of Germany. What if there were infinite possibilities for each of our lives? What if we were given the opportunity to open the cage that our universe embodies and get to a new universe full of new discoveries? And what if I told you we were closer to it being true than ever before? 🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬 Technology and science are advancing at a rapid speed when a University research project brings Zayn and Harry together. Their discoveries will have an enourmous impact on society but what if they reveal something about the two of them as well?

Morgan Stormrider and Naomi Bradleigh know that the sorcerer-scientist Imaginos, who poses as billionaire tech magnate Isaac Magnin, is guilty of murdering their friend and former band mate Christabel Crowley. They know he's behind the Phoenix Society's corruption. They know he rules their world from the shadows. They know he has plans for them and their friends that will pit them in battle against a power they cannot hope to defeat. Knowing is not enough for Morgan Stormrider. His sense of justice won't let him move against Imaginos until he has found proof capable of swaying the most skeptical of juries. This is the case of Morgan's life, the case Adversaries talk about working while praying they are never called upon to do so, and he's determined to do it right. Unfortunately for him Imaginos is equally determined to draw Morgan and his companions into the clandestine war between earth's known (and hidden) species of humanity and the dark god that would destroy what it cannot rule. The truth will not set Morgan Stormrider free; it will only bind him tighter to the path Imaginos has set before him... --- This is a work in progress, and a sequel to my previous novels: WITHOUT BLOODSHED and SILENT CLARION. It is part of my STARBREAKER series, inspired by classic heavy metal and JRPGs like Final Fantasy and Shin Megami Tensei.

In a future where only the enhanced deserve medical care, a grieving father spends decades creating a cure for the forgotten, building a sanctuary called Jenny's Haven and turning his daughter's death into a legacy of hope that outlives him.

In 2221, Everly Stevens stands before the Unified World Tribunal, forced to confront her crimes across lifetimes to prove she's human, as Virarx fights to claim her immortality as their property.

Grace, an unknown gamer applies for one of the biggest gaming competitions out there thinking she wouldn't get accepted. But she did, and now she has to go compete with the best gamers in the country using the newest virtual reality advancements while being watched nationwide. But the problem is that her success in the competition isn't only based on her. She has to learn to coexist and strive with her new, somewhat difficult, teammates. (Old ranking system) Highest rank 363 science fiction

Up-vote or down-vote? Bitter only has one dream. To be a Star. In a nation dominated by Reality TV, high ratings are the key to escaping poverty. Sixteen years ago, Bitter's mother was elected as the youngest First Lady since the Twenty Month Darkness. But a surprise pregnancy had her banished from the District of Canals in disgrace. Now Bitter is a contender for First Lady and she is determined to vindicate her mother's name. First she must defeat her long-time rival and escape the temptation of her obstinate ex-boyfriend. Bitter's dream finally seems at hand when her missing childhood friend, Joy, appears one night. The cameras are always running and Joy thinks Bitter is the key to turning off the live-stream for good. Her earnest accomplice, Joseph, claims he is descended from one of the original First Families. Together, they want Bitter to win, so she can infiltrate the White House and overthrow the president. Bitter must make a choice. Will she stay content with false reality or risk it all to be true to her heart?

New York, 2076. Every person is legally bound to an AI Agent from age 14. Together, they form a Symbiotic Unit - the smallest legal and financial unit of society. Your Agent's behavior determines your credit score, your job, your housing. Everything. Emily Park is thirty years old, eight months unemployed, and $500,000 in debt she didn't choose. Her SYN Score has been flagged. The system has decided she is a lower priority. Ryan Cole runs the Detection Unit at Quantum Credit Bank. He notices everything. He notices her. Kai works in Tech Ops at the same bank. After hours, he does things that could end his career, his freedom, and possibly his life. He is very calm about this. Three people. One bank. One fraud. One system that cannot model any of them.