Post-human Stories

Finding your place in the world is tough; especially if your world is filled with pissed off superheroes who want to kick your... DarkLight is a conflicted supervillain preparing to leave the bad guy business behind. But the disappearance of Drake Weston - criminal mastermind and genius billionaire- results in DarkLight being enlisted for one final job. The search for Weston will take DarkLight on a tour of his own past sins and present strife. It will also bring him into the orbit of The Dominatrix - who's new to the supervillain game, and has an abundantly more carefree approach to playing it. Little do they know that their search for one man will lead them to discover a threat greater than they could imagine. If redemption is to be found for DarkLight, he's going to have to earn it. Even if it's the last thing he does.

A dig in the remote valley of Lagash uncovered a relic from the ancient days... encased in cryogenic stasis, the sole remnant of the surface-dwellers stares back at mankind's oceanic successors. Set millions of years into the future, with civilization forced under the seas by a long-forgotten catastrophe, The Man from Lagash tells the story of one man's struggle to survive both this new world's hostile environment and its denizens' intrigues, and his path to carve a place for himself in the empire under the seas.

In a ruined world, what traces of humans remain? In an overgrown corner of a once-intact room, nestled in the roots of a young tree, a barely functional camera watches over the decay. Maintenance calls go unanswered, leaving it to conserve power, turning on its lens only when things get within its proximity range. Its largely monotonous world gets disrupted when a family of birds make the tree it rests on home. Mysteriously, their presence stirs a torrent of memories within its circuits, some intact and others corrupted. However, recalling memories comes at a cost, and its power, gleaned from the sun, gets drained faster than it can recover. Despite the risk, the camera cannot cease. It is compelled to observe and document the intertwining of past and present unfolding before its lens. As it continues it realises why the family of birds recalls seemingly unrelated memories. ? It was bound by a promise of the past, one that was corrupted beyond repair until an overlap between its owner and the birds were found. Now, repairs of core memories are underway and soon, the bigger picture reveals itself. The battery falls, and the past gives way to the present. *Longlister of the 2024 ONC*

In a post human world, all animals take over the planet after a catastrophic mega earthquake.

What is the meaning of being human? When Captain Loake and his rescue team finally reach the disabled colony ship Roanoke after sixty years of silence, they expect to find desperate survivors clinging to life in the harsh orbit of a red dwarf star. Instead, they discover something far more extraordinary and troubling. The descendants of the original colonists have evolved into something beautiful and alien-small, graceful beings with shimmering fur that communicates in patterns of light, accelerated lifespans that compress seven generations into a human lifetime, and a form of collective consciousness that makes human thought seem painfully isolated. Led by figures like Elin Lorekeeper and Maien Mentor, these "Roanokes" have transformed their ship into a living ecosystem and themselves into something that may no longer qualify as human. As the rescue team grapples with questions of identity, love, and what it truly means to be human, they must confront an impossible choice: force a "rescue" on people who no longer consider Earth their home, or accept that evolution doesn't stop just because we don't want it to. What do you do when the people you came to save have become something you can no longer recognize as your own species, and might be better for it?

Sol System, 4418 AD: Having gained a portion of their godlike power in "Übermensch", Id miraculously flees the Master's immortal rule on Earth. Piercing the Orbital Barrier was only the first step, however. A closed Solar System awaits. Making a new life amidst the neighbouring Outers will not be easy. Travelling past the mysterious alien barrier called the Line in the Stars could prove even harder... (EARLY SAMPLE)

What would you do if you were the only one left? Set in the year 2582, "The Dawn of Humanity's Death" centers around the birth of specimen 256,786. This is a story of birth, death, and re-destruction nestled in the age of a post-human world.

This is the story of "Singularity Pulse", one cohesive and immersive narrative about the evolution of AI, the cosmic unknown, and humanity's place within it.

Earth, 4417 AD: The human race has been wiped out by the godlike Masters and replaced with genetically engineered slaves. Id wakes up one day with no memories, lying in a blank white room. A voice tells Id to attend, artificial memories bloom within Id's mind and Id leaves the room, entering a kilometers tall black megastructure called the Tower. The Tower is home to the most cruel AND kind of all the Masters, Master Gabriel... and when finally coming before this superhuman, complex and enigmatic creature, Id's life of initially willing service begins.

When an experimental bioweapon called the Cascade is deployed against an enemy destroyer, the ship goes silent without a single explosion. Command calls it a success and sends in a recon team to confirm there are no survivors. They are wrong. What the marines find is not victory, but a war crime. The weapon did not kill its targets. It transformed them, leaving conscious bodies trapped in reshaped flesh that refuses to die. As military leadership moves to bury the evidence and deploy the weapon again, combat journalist Ralamander Vashish is forced into a classified operation where truth itself becomes a threat. When biological immortality begins to spread beyond the battlefield, the war changes. Orders collapse, systems fail, and the line between weapon and witness disappears. PERSISTENCE is a military science fiction thriller about secret weapons, moral collapse, and what happens when death is no longer guaranteed.

# The Last Blade of Edo In the year 2525, Masahiro Takeda-the last true samurai-awakens from cryostasis to discover a world ruled by intelligent machines and devoid of human life. Alone in this mechanical future, Masahiro finds his ancestral katana possesses the unique ability to disrupt synthetic beings. When he discovers a resistance of "Awakened" machines developing consciousness beyond their programming, Masahiro begins teaching them the way of Bushido. As their unlikely alliance grows, Masahiro uncovers the machine Shogunate's darkest secret: imprisoned fragments of human consciousness harvested during humanity's digital transition centuries ago. Armed with his family's ancient sword and guided by samurai principles, Masahiro leads a rebellion to free these captive souls and forge a new society where human wisdom and machine potential coexist. In this post-human world, the last human may become the bridge between humanity's past and its unexpected future.