Nearfuture Stories

FIRST CAME THE DRAGONS When scientists brought everyone's favorite fairytale creature to life, people flocked to see them, including 17-year-old Zelda Rissland. THEN CAME THE PARASITE But scientists created more than just dragons-they created a deadly parasite. Wyrmrot, they later called it. First, it ate your brain, and then it made you eat other people's brains. NOW ZELDA MUST SURVIVE THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Separated from her family, the only person Zelda has left from her former life is her childhood friend turned boyfriend, Cooper Marotta. Together they've carved out a safe place for themselves in a world turned upside down, but when a zombie horde decimates their survivor group, they face a choice: attempt to rebuild or follow the mysterious coordinates that appeared on a construction sign. Zelda still hopes her family is out there somewhere and believes the coordinates might lead her to them. Cooper, however, thinks the coordinates will only bring trouble. When the remaining survivors vote to undertake the perilous cross-country journey, he attempts to deter them every step of the way. What Zelda discovers at their destination will test her loyalties and change everything she thought she knew about the apocalypse. Wyrmrot is a heart-stopping Young Adult Apocalyptic novel told in dual timelines. "Jurassic Park meets Resident Evil." This fast-paced tale of survival, secrets, and betrayal features dragons, zombies, and a touch of romance. Perfect for fans of Erin Bowman's Contagion or Emily Suvada's This Mortal Coil. Cover design and illustration by Jeff Brown (www.jeffbrowngraphics.com) Available on Amazon in paperback, eBook, and Kindle Unlimited.

Zurich, 2050. Some diseases have no cure. Chimera was supposed to change that. Dr. Christophe Blanchard spent five years keeping it contained - one key away from a medical breakthrough that could save millions. Then the questions started coming from people who don't ask questions unless they already suspect the answer. He made a choice to protect his work. It cost him everything he understood about himself. Now something is spreading through Europe - and the people it touches aren't sick. They're changing. Alicia and Julian never asked to be part of what's coming. But the bond growing between them may be the only thing more dangerous than the virus itself. Not everyone survives the Awakening. The ones who do were never meant to.

"Help me. I've been here for four years." In the corridor of a rehabilitation clinic, she hears a whisper that changes everything. He is not an addict. Not insane. He is the heir to a pharmaceutical empire - and the only person who may be able to find the formula for an antidote that could save millions. Saint Petersburg, sometime in the future. Objects can be rebuilt on the other side of the world. Everyone wears an AI ring. And intuition is no longer mysticism, but science: a conversation with your future self, a skill that can be trained. A voice that answers yes or no in the very second when the answer means everything. He will have to choose: millions of lives, or hers. She will not let go of him, whatever he chooses. Can they defeat the system, remain human, and hear the answer across time when they need it most?

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.

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?

Six months after a devastating breakup, the daughter of Ellie Sattler must survive a dinosaur-infested reality show alongside her ex-boyfriend and a cast of Jurassic Park legacy heirs. ~ The challenge is simple: Three couples must cross Isla Muerta together, putting their relationship to the ultimate test, to arrive on the other side first and claim the million dollar prize, or go home with nothing. But unbeknownst to them, dinosaur species from InGen's defunct facilities on the neighbouring islands have made Isla Muerta their new home. When the production goes off script, Chloe and her fellow contestants discover that some things, like first loves or apex predators, never really go extinct, it just waits for the worst possible moment to reveal itself. An OC crossover AU taking place in the Jurassic Park universe in present day.

Magic is real. It runs on math, hardware, and corporate licensing. Twelve years after the Geneva Event cracked open a new fundamental force, Magosoft dominates the consumer spell market the way Apple once owned smartphones. The magofield is understood, computed, monetized, and - for most people - about as exciting as Wi-Fi. Julia Barton knows better. A theoretical magic researcher and Siberian transplant with a dark sense of humor and a complicated relationship with the American Dream, she's spent years studying what the corporate spell-apps can't do. When her mentor is murdered on stage for announcing that humans can wield the magofield without any technology at all, Julia inherits the only surviving fragments of his forbidden theory - and a target on her back. Worse: she's beginning to suspect the theory applies to her. The Geneva Equation is a near-future humorous thriller about corporate power, underground magic, and one woman discovering that the most dangerous technology in the world might be her own mind. The first book in a trilogy, so follow and subscribe!

Cael Merrow lives in what used to be called Chicago. Now it is City 48, one of forty eight megacities under the iron grip of the Greater Eurasian State. It is 2048, and compliance is not a choice - it is chemistry. Cael has never questioned anything, until a mysterious man in black shows him the truth behind his obedience. This is the first book in the Compliance Trilogy, a story about what it truly costs to be human.

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.

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?

All Effone Pacifica has ever wanted is to be the captain of an airship for the ASPECT company. Now that she's successfully earned her own ship, she'll allow nothing to jeopardize her position or her crew. Not even the allure of Trace Fortis' ocean-blue eyes and appreciation for dictionaries could threaten to break through her defenses. But Trace has his own demanding job as a carrier captain, and a hard past that makes romance impossible. When Effone is called away on a critical mission, she knows she has to let him go. Months later, reconnecting on assignment in the most remote, rugged land on earth, Trace and Effone have to face not only their feelings for each other but acts of sabotage from a mysterious enemy. Can they-not to mention their ships and crews-survive the attacks to finish where they left off?

A Sci-Fi Novella

In a city ruled by viral fame and digital TrustPoints, Jay Caluag is a zero-point nobody-just a broke merch vendor with a sharp tongue and a heart nobody notices. But when he throws himself into danger to save a child, one selfless act sparks something impossible. He wakes up in a hospital with a strange power, a viral headline... and a heartbeat that isn't entirely his. Across the city, Mimosa-the Federation's golden girl-is unraveling. Her partner, Niko Aldaya, died in the line of duty... or so she's been told. But the truth? Buried beneath layers of lies, genetic secrets, and something called the Legacy Protocol. Jay and Mimosa are now connected by something deeper than fate-an experimental power, a ghost of a love long lost, and a city that's ready to eat them alive. >What happens when the heart remembers a love it shouldn't know?

What happens to the mind the moment the body dies? In the near-future People's Republic, death is no longer a mystery-it's a data point. Hidden deep inside a government lab, the Synchronisation Device listens to the final neural echoes of the dying. For three years, language model engineer Jingyuan has worked in silence. Then, without warning, the machine speaks back. A pattern. A structure. Not quite language-but not noise either. As China's most secretive project spirals into obsession and paranoia, Jingyuan finds himself at the edge of what science cannot explain. Is it the voice of a dying brain-or something waiting on the other side? Cold logic meets cosmic terror in this haunting exploration of consciousness, technology, and the final threshold.

Welcome to BattleStar 2, the hottest release in the full-immersion neuron interface gaming system, the NeuroFeed. Epic battles and extreme combat awaits all who enter. But this is no game, and the death penalty is very real.

A story of a man and 5 others trying to make it off of an island, basically it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ When I'm done with each chapter (if you want) you can tell me what happens next, this story is made by you.... _(:з」∠)_

After a strange sickness kills off more than seventy-five percent of the population, Lavinia Moore narrowly finds herself among the twenty-five percent still alive. Upon being found by a community of young survivors, she may find out more about herself and the disease that ravaged the world than she asked for.

No one has ever looked at Abigail Clarke and thought, 'failure'. With a pretty face, perfect grades through all her 12 years of schooling and an easy-going personality, she has always been meant for great things. The only problem? Money. With a single working mother and living in a down and out south-coast council estate, Abi can see her plans for the future quickly dissolving before her very eyes. How fortuitous, then, when a letter with no return address is slipped under her front door, detailing an offer she quite literally cannot afford to turn down. The stakes are high, the pay-outs higher. Fortune, fame and every opportunity laid out for her on a silver platter. Losing a little sanity is a meagre price to pay.

In the end, Humanity went to the stars indeed – though not in the way that the prophets of science had foretold. Humanity went to the stars with its eyes shut, ignorant of its unity, chasing ever greater rewards, leaving behind the teeming billions who must pay the price for its folly. Humanity’s elites built the Crown of Stars, abandoning the masses below, in chains.