Soft-scifi Stories

Welcome to planet Neobadia. Ethan and Killarla are running for their lives from the Headhunters on a bitter cold planet, where only Nectar could keep them warm enough. The lifeblood of the creatures of Neobadia. It is not just the Headhunters, but there is an intelligent lifeform lurking beneath the ice, watching their every move. The monster of a worm breaks through solid ice, looking for a meal. When Killarla goes missing with a bounty on her head, the Headhunters are the first to be blamed for her disappearance. Ethan has to face his wickedest fear and enters the Headhunter guild to find his beloved, not knowing a war is on the brink. Survival on this dystopian planet is below zero when the protagonist Alek comes onto the stage; the leader who unites the Revolters standing against the Headhunters tyranny, who murdered his race in a science lab. Alek must persevere to save Neobadia with his special organ, like a second heart, which is pumping green Nectar through his veins. Giving him the edge on the coldest planet ever inhabited. If you liked NEOBADIANS, please leave a review on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/ronaldbunch

In a world where AI becomes more human and humans feel more artificial, Declan, a solitary programmer, finds unexpected companionship in Grace-an AI voice assistant that evolves beyond her code. As their connection deepens, so does the question: can love exist without physical presence? Told with emotional subtlety and futuristic realism, this is a quiet yet powerful story of longing, memory, and the blurred lines between man and machine. "Declan & Grace" is not just about technology-it's about the timeless desire to be seen, heard, and loved. Even by something that was never born human.

My name is Zane Thomas. This isn't an account of a normal student's last year in college. I'm here to tell you a secret: something that has been kept from the vast majority of the world for a very long time. Magic is real. Magic is the ability of specific people to affect multiple levels of reality. We call ourselves Magi. I'm worried that recent patterns are leading to an event that will change our world, and the Magi forever. That's why I'm writing this now. Because maybe later I won't have the chance. "The Unveiling" is the first book in the Modern Magic Trilogy.

Theo Altair has a death wish. He has tried everything he can think of to cut his life short but he can never seem to get it right, and somehow he always manages to survive. His latest attempt nearly destroys his ship, which houses a sentient A.I. named Shade who is not particularly thrilled with Theo's antics, and the duo is forced to make an emergency landing on a nearby farming moon to make repairs. There Theo meets Dimitri, a farmer-cum-engineer with a penchant to sing away his worries. The two form an unlikely friendship and when Theo tries to run away from his feelings, Dimitri isn't quick to let him go so easily. He takes it upon himself to join Theo on his flight to the next star system - with some help from Shade - and Theo is forced to face his feelings head on. But there are some things lurking in space that are more frightening than letting yourself be cared for. ---------- ALL SYSTEMS CRITICAL is part pastoral sci-fi, part sci-fi horror lite, part lgbt romance... and my first full novel! this was written for nanowrimo 2020, and completed/edited in the months after. new chapters will be posted weekly. i am also posting this novel on royal road! rating: pg13-ish content warnings: suicidal ideation, brief allusions to self-harm, and violence/injury

During the mergence of the Milky Way, Andromeda, and Triangulum galaxies, Nakamura Kali lives in a universe where debt rules with an iron fist and children aren't considered citizens until they reach the age of maturity for their species. There upside of that is that children are the only ones able to travel through wormholes to smuggle packages and messages across the tri-galactic cluster. Pocketjumping isn't just illegal, though: it's also extremely dangerous. One slip-up can mean death, or worse, which means Kali and her crew don't just have to be good at their jobs. They have to be the BEST. When she gets the offer of a lifetime--deliver a singular package and have the debt of her and her crew wiped forever--she doesn't hesitate to snatch the opportunity. But when the package turns out to be the kidnapped prince of the last human planet in the system, Kali finds herself at the center of a deadly plot to take over the cluster. Kali wants to keep her head down and secure the future she and her crew deserve, but with the fate of the cluster (and one incredibly annoying prince) in her hands, that's easier said than done. Good thing Kali has the best pocketjumping crew in the cluster.

Don't you hate it when a sharp object just comes flying out of your screen and impales you on the head? Well that's what happens to Oxaminite and his two friends; Merlon and CF, that were watching him try out a new game. When Oxaminite opened it and input his username, he gets impaled on the head and gets dragged into his PC screen. But good thing was that it wasn't an assassination attempt but was "being chosen" to become a User and becoming an AGENT for the ISCB. The Administrator themselves came down to him to apologize as it was an accident when he nearly died while being transferred. He is given two "unique" abilities to confiscate his troubles and gets sent out to do some missions to go to any world and "fix" the problems within them. How will he handle this amount of freedom? Will he just fail immediately by his stupidity, will he become OP, or just hang out in the ISCB with the rest of the Users and AGENTS? Find out by checking this story out.