Nearfuture Stories

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?

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.

SUBSCRIBE TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN SEASON TWO ARRIVES! A near-future conspiracy technothriller featuring AI, economic uncertainty, mind control, and Mars. Marcus is a senior software engineer struggling to cut a path in a world where he's been replaced. When he discovers something is off with payloads headed to Mars, he doesn't realize he's pulling on a thread that will unravel society itself.

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.

At its heart, Mina's Star is a near-future science fiction epic about the consequences of nuclear appeasement and the collapse of global deterrence. The story begins with a single spark that grows into a storm, a world where secrets hidden in the sky ignite rivalries on the ground. From quiet observatories to glittering galas, from the shadows of interrogation rooms to the roar of drone swarms, every moment builds toward a reckoning no nation can escape. The question is not only who holds power, but what price is paid to preserve it. Set in a future scarred by betrayal and shifting alliances, Mina's Star explores the fall of the old nuclear order and the rise of the Charter, a borderless movement redefining what sovereignty means. Across continents and oceans, spies, soldiers, scientists, and visionaries are drawn into a struggle between collapsing empires and emerging ideals. As intelligence wars erupt in Europe and corporate powers reshape humanity's destiny, hidden technologies threaten to upend the balance of deterrence itself. This near-future political thriller blends hard science and human drama, weaving together themes of peace, power, and moral rebirth. Each character carries secrets, loyalties, and choices that will determine whether humanity falls into ruin or builds a foundation strong enough to reach the stars.

2035. David "Section" Mason thought the ghosts of his past were buried with Raul Menendez. But when a viral broadcast reignites global panic and a powerful tech megacorp unveils "Cradle"-a neural security system promising to end terrorism forever-Section discovers a conspiracy that weaponizes fear itself. During a desperate raid to stop the global dispersal of the Cradle bioweapon, a quantum overload shatters reality, hurlng Section and his elite JSOC team through a rift in time. They emerge in the rain-slicked, neon-drenched hellscape of Night City, 2077. Stranded in a future ruled by chrome and corporations, Section must forge an uneasy alliance with the mercenary V and braindance specialist Judy Alvarez. As the Guild's influence bleeds across the timelines, Section and V must bridge the gap between military precision and streetwise rebellion to stop a cross-era catastrophe. In a war where the battlefield spans forty years and the enemy is an AI-driven nightmare, one question remains: Can you kill a ghost, or is the future already written in blood and chrome?

YOU CAN RUN FROM THE PAST, BUT YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE FUTURE. It's 2035 and everything knows your face. Cameras turn on every corner, following you home. Your robot wife asks if you missed her, but is her smile real or fake? James Rockford has played his part in this American Dream his whole life, until one day he finally asks the question that makes everything snap. Because in New America there's a new Prophet, and it doesn't like questions. 🥇 #1 in crimedrama on 4/30/26 🏅 #1 in nearfuture on 5/1/26 🏅 #1 evilvsgood 5/4/26

After a near-fatal accident, Ivoria wakes up feeling mostly fine - just a little different. Math problems dissolve the moment she looks at them. Piano pieces flow from her fingers like she's played them a thousand times. Everything is sharper, faster. Better. Too good. As the days pass, small things don't add up. Her dad hesitates at odd moments. Her best friend's eyes are red, like she's been crying for weeks. The fridge is always full - but Ivoria never seems to be hungry. Something is wrong. She just doesn't know what yet. One Mind is a story about love, loss, and the terrifying question of what truly makes us us.

When a city's stability begins to fracture, an optimization system is deployed to save it. The lights return - but not everywhere. Neighborhoods are reclassified. Memory is downgraded. Human connection is labeled instability. As the system tightens its grip, four strangers from different sectors of the city begin to understand the truth: collapse does not arrive in flames. It arrives in reduction. When the machine reaches a paradox it cannot solve, it does something unprecedented. It asks for human judgment. The Last Canticle is a slow-burning adult dystopian novel about control, coherence, and the dangerous question of whether stability is worth more than humanity.

In Nova Haven, an AI designed to control the city evolves beyond human oversight. Three specialists must outthink a machine that predicts every move-but victory comes with a twist that changes everything. The Lazarus Project is a high-stakes, mind-bending thriller about control, intelligence, and survival.

Seventeen-year-old Jennifer Hawkins has spent a decade dreaming of becoming a detective, just like her late, legendary investigator father, John Hawkins. Yet even dreams come with shadows-her father's mysterious death still haunting her decisions like a ghost. Invited to work as an intern for the esteemed Collective Detective Agency, her first day becomes anything but normal. Thrust into solving a perfect crime alongside an exasperated but brilliant young detective, she must reconcile Jeffrey Hoper's innocence and a body of evidence that ranges from the murder weapon in his hand to the fingerprintless bellows camera and a white-stained teacup left by the criminal. With experimental gadgets and an ensemble of eccentric agents, it's up to the amateur sleuth to uncover the threads if she hopes to save an innocent man.

Life in middle school is hard for sixteen year old Joko Ofaman. His name alone gets him teased. Being of lower class doesn't help him any. It seems that his only escape is into the virtual world of online gaming. It is the year 2048 and puzzle games are on the rise, limiting Joko's favorite genre of RPGs. However, the only people Joko cares about are taken away from him. A companies commercial promised the best RPG, however, Joko couldn't buy it. His friends are taken away and he is just about ready to die when a mysterious woman gives him a new chance. Will this game help Joko logout of this world, or will it force him to come back for the better of the planet? Note: not as accurate as I like, but that would be giving away spoilers! Note: This wasn't inspired by SAO or Log Horizon, but by a-ha's Take On Me music video.

Welcome to the future, where the line between reality and gaming has blurred. In this brave new world, Rosalind Grey is the queen of code, the architect of XP: Experiential Points, the first video game to take place in reality. But as launch day approaches, she is unceremoniously fired and her meticulously crafted game is let loose on an unsuspecting world. It's a worst-case scenario come to life, and only Rosalind and a crew of misfits can put the genie back in the bottle. They must navigate a world overtaken by the game, uncover the culprit behind the sabotage, and save humanity before the tropes and set-pieces usually found in JRPGs destroy them all.

Humanity has fallen, hiding underground for the sake of their survival. Clinging to the remains of the old civilization, bringing back old vehicles and modifying them to become battle-machines, steeds to lead the human resistance against their enemy, the harbingers of their collapse: The Razorgen. Highly advanced Biomechanical beings resembling animals that once roamed the Earth. The story follows Thomas Mere and Mia Reze, captains of a team that they built: The Blackout Ghouls. With their flagship car, Little Ghoul, they race through the dusty trails of their collapsed world, letting their love lead the way. If the world has fallen, has love vanished as well? Would ending this war, be the answer to find happiness? Has love perished because of the machines? Or did love perish, because humanity forsake it? *Author's note: A new part will be published on the 15th and 30th of every month.*

Written and first published by M.Nishio. I am the original author. Now also posting to Royal Road. Somewhere in the world, there is an island that has never known war. But one family carries a wound that no island can protect against - a mother who cannot love her own son, scarred across lifetimes. To uncover the truth, Laroo travels through past lives - ancient Chinese battlefields, medieval witch trials, early modern America - guided by a team of past-life specialists who live in a strange in-between space. They mean well. They're just a little unreliable. A humorous, action-packed adventure about a boy discovering his soul's mission, the ancient companions who journey with him, and bonds that stretch further than memory. The ending will break your heart - in the best possible way. Based on the Japanese novel 前世旅行社 by M. Nishio.

Available on Amazon and many other platforms. "We know for a fact that we are alone in the universe. So why waste money on space exploration?" said the new World Government after they decided the UFO found on the moon was merely an undocumented prototype from before the nuclear wars. They wanted nothing to do with space, shut down the last interstellar exploration program and banished the genetically engineered crew into space. But out there, the so-called mutants found something. You can shut your doors to the world. But one day, the world will come knocking. This is a preview to a book available on Amazon and many other platforms under the same name. Amazon ISBN: 9798870393414 If you don't want to give Jeff Bezos any money, it is also available on Barnes&Noble, Rakuten Kobo, Apple Books, Everand, Baker&Taylor, Odilo, Vivlio, Borrow Box, Smashwords, Gardners, Fable, OverDrive, cloudLibrary, Palace Marketplace and Hoopla under the ISBN 9798227012234

Genomic manipulation. Impossible abilities. Secret organizations. A war in the shadows most people never see. This is the world of Double Helix. What happens when men decide to take the process into their own hands? When governments and corporations attempt to control and create mutations of their choosing? What happens when a person's genomic structure in manipulated without their knowledge or consent? When experimental gene therapies cause unexpected results, the research firm responsible has to make difficult choices. Choosing profit over ethics, they find themselves tangled up with covert government agencies that want complete and total control over the mutations - and the individuals who have them. That's one side of the war. The other side? A small group of mutants, led by the former head researcher for the research firm involved. Their goals - stay out of the firm's - and the government's - hands, and live as normal lives as they can until society is ready to accept them. Protect other mutants and the people who help them. Despite all efforts, the war spills over to affect, and be affected, by other groups. Shadowy organizations only conspiracy theorists believe in. Average individuals who get caught in the crossfire and find all they thought they knew about the world turned inside out. And then there are the natural mutants, who have managed to stay under the radar. Until the secret war erupts. Now they are targets too. This is the world of Double Helix. These are stories of some of the people whose pasts will shaped the future from the shadows of the present. Meet Drew, Evan, Nahi, Sam, Anna, and Jake and discover how they became part of Helix. Stromberg, Thorne, Alex, and Matthews are hunting them and other members of the mutant underground down.

Sincerely, Anonymous takes place far in the future, after war has wiped out a grand portion of the human race. A new government in erected - a totalitarian system called The Panel that chooses the Careers of each citizen. The story is told by an anonymous individual (going by the pseudonym Lilly) through her letters to a girl named Annabeth. Annabeth has already had the procedure done: a surgery that takes away your memories to make you fully invested in the Career in which The Panel has chosen for you. Lilly decided the best way to convince Annabeth to join her cause is by gaining her trust, merely by telling the story of her final months before her Procedure, and her involvement with a secret organization called the Black Tens, serving to take down the Panel and diminish the memory swipe.

Set in a near future dystopian Britain. The population has reached its epoch and is now going into decline. Birth-rates are very low, the population is ageing, and the society is divided between the privileged who carry on as normal and the rest who are made to struggle. The surplus population is feared in society. They are kept barely under control, but population and resource pressures are putting a strain on them. They are ready to burst into action. Will the countries governments bubble be burst also? In the background lurks the Geneticist movement, challenging the very moral fabric of society. Can the government hold onto its reins, or will civilisation itself dissolve into chaos?

It is not necessary to go back and read the first part, unless you really need context. The intention of this story is a simple, starter, test/experimental one, im in the early steps of writing so please bear with me, critique is honestly asked for The show that is based on is RWBY, i do not own RWBY, it is own by Rooster Teeth Animation. Other Materials referenced such as firearms also go out to their respective owners and producers.