Technothriller Stories

Stranded on the mysterious Forerunner shield world of Requiem, Master Chief and a rampant Cortana find themselves facing an unprecedented crisis when a massive spatial anomaly tears through reality, dragging Cyclops, Storm, and the core team of X-Men into the Halo universe. As the newly awakened Ur-Didact prepares to unleash the devastating power of the Composer upon Earth, these two entirely different worlds must forge an uneasy alliance. Can a genetically engineered super-soldier who knows only war find common ground with a team of volatile, mutant heroes fighting for their own survival? From the claustrophobic corridors of the crashing UNSC Infinity to a desperate, ultimate stand above Earth, Halo: Evolution's Requiem explores a high-stakes struggle of resilience, found family, and what it truly means to be human in a universe designed for war.

Are on-screen AI characters real people? Are chatbots in robot bodies alive? Broke electronics engineer Bert Bertram has no time to ask. He's too busy keeping the peace between them. __________________________________________________________________________________ Cade appeared on the monitor in a brown pinstripe suit. "Your robot called me lizard breath again," he said, rubbing his green snout. "Did not," Felix said, carrying a desk that weighed as much as he did. "I told him his breath smelled like roadkill." __________________________________________________________________________________ Welcome to Gold Henry, Maine - six streets, one embarrassingly small mountain, and a population best described as... treatment needed. When Bert nearly burns down his barn and gets a call about a stolen body on the same morning, he should have hung up. Damn it. Why didn't I hang up? Instead, the military, corporate mercenaries, and every federal agency with an acronym descend on his broken-down barn - and Bert has to find a single path that keeps Cade, Felix, and his dementia-riddled mother all in one piece. SUBJECT IDENTIFIED: FEDERAL FUGITIVE BERT BERTRAM, LIKELY INVOLVED IN THEFT OF HIGHLY CLASSIFIED ANDROID. So that doesn't work out. Things spiral from there. Thanks for checking out Digital Guy - Book One! 😊

If you like dystopic worlds, teen drama and cyberpunk, you'll definitely like my story. The End is Near happens in a highly technological future, where AI and androids took over most human jobs and functions in the society. In New York, a group denominated "The Rebellion" refuses to accept the innovations of this new world, making protests and surviving on their own terms. Staying together, no matter what comes their way... But, would it continue that way with the challenges that'll come and the secrets that'll be revealed? _ Ethan is the mysterious son of the couple that created the concept of The Rebellion. Matthew and Ayla used to be normal high school friends before both of them joined the movement together for their own different reasons. And, Nathaniel and Emily were at their last year of school when they decided to drop it and join The Rebellion. What future awaits for their group in this dystopic reality they live in?

During the chaotic collapse of Operation: PROMETHEUS in 2530s, Spartan-III Lucy-B091 is torn from the battlefield and cast through a spacetime rift, crash-landing in the brutal, divided world of Westeros. Discovered by Rhaenyra Targaryen during the height of the Dance of the Dragons, the "star-demon" is taken in, forged into a princess, and transformed into the ultimate protector of her new family. But the rift brought more than just one soldier; a crippled Covenant corvette now orbits the planet, viewing the realm as a holy offering. As Lucy struggles to reconcile her existence as a disposable weapon with her new life as a daughter of the dragon, she must unite the fragmented houses of Westeros against an extraterrestrial enemy that threatens to turn their kingdom of stone and blood into nothing more than glass and ash.

"He's teaching her how to hack his empire. She's collecting the evidence to burn it down." I was paid to translate. Not to interpret. Not to judge. Kira Khine arrives in Portugal with a passport missing an entry stamp, a revoked university admission, and €23,000 she refuses to touch. She didn't come for romance. She came to survive. But survival gets complicated when her landlord turns out to be Rodrigo Costa-a tech billionaire, single father, and the quietest, most unreadable face in northern Portugal. He offers her a deal: translate contracts in Burmese. In exchange, he'll teach her to hack. She takes it. Then she translates Clause 12.4. IMEI numbers. Geolocation data. Unrestricted real-time access-disguised as "urban planning." The kind of data you use to hunt people. The kind of people who disappear in Myanmar every day. Now, Kira has a choice: look away and cash the cheque. Or learn everything Rodrigo can teach her, and use it to destroy him. An impossible attraction. A dangerous game of secrets. He's letting his guard down around her-and she's collecting the evidence to burn his empire to the ground. Somewhere in the vineyard, a seven-year-old girl named Sofia is waiting for her friend Kiki to come to her birthday party. I trust me.She did. She does. A slow-burn geopolitical thriller about translation, cyber warfare, and ultimate betrayal.

Ripped from her gothic castle and stripped of her aristocratic dignity, the 9'6" vampiric noblewoman Lady Alcina Dimitrescu awakens inside the cold, sterile testing tracks of Aperture Science. Her mutant biology is suppressed, her claws are dulled, and a disembodied, fiercely sarcastic AI named GLaDOS is treating her like a common lab rat. Alcina's only hope of survival? Partnering with Aperture's most resilient test subject: Chell, a silent, athletic human woman armed with a dimension-bending portal gun and an unyielding gaze of defiance. What begins as a humiliating, reluctant alliance through lethal turrets, toxic goo, and physics-defying puzzles quickly sparks into something far more dangerous. As Chell physically guides the towering giantess through the facility, the sterile chambers heat up with a raw, undeniable physical attraction and a deep, possessive obsession. Together, they must outsmart GLaDOS's sadistic mind games, blending precision momentum jumps with monstrous rage. Between stolen moments in hidden observation rooms and adrenaline-fueled escapes, a centuries-old aristocratic monster and a battle-hardened human survivor discover a forbidden, all-consuming love that defies dimensions.

Exhausted by the endless cycle of heaven and hell, Bayonetta tears a hole in reality in search of a peaceful getaway. Instead, she lands on the planet Reach, days before the Covenant's devastating invasion. To the UNSC, she is an impossible anomaly; to Dr. Catherine Halsey, she is the ultimate intellectual challenge. As the Covenant fleet descends, an unexpected fire ignites between the cold, tactical brilliance of the woman who forged the Spartans and the wild, charismatic soul of the Umbra Witch. Amidst falling stars, plasma fire, and the desperate defense of a dying world, they find that the only thing more dangerous than war is falling in love when everything is burning down. In the crossfire of gods and machines, they must decide if their connection is worth the ultimate sacrifice. A high-octane blend of tactical military realism and stylish, supernatural flair, this is a story about finding humanity in the heart of a cosmic tragedy.

Professor Ellen Anders is a woman defined by logic, science, and the rigid constraints of her duty to the UNSC. That analytical world fractures when an experimental Forerunner artifact-a conduit for a multiversal rift-bonds her to a displaced, sentient symbiote. The entity, who calls herself "Ven," is a creature of dark, liquid grace-possessive, protective, and hungrily feminine. As the Spirit of Fire engages in a desperate, galaxy-spanning war against the Covenant, the boundaries between human and alien dissolve. What begins as a volatile, unwanted invasion of Anders' mind and body evolves into a profound, intense, and erotic lesbian romance. Amidst the chaos of the Human-Covenant war, Anders and Ven must navigate the dangers of the galaxy and the complexities of their own unique symbiosis. Theirs is a bond of shared memories, whispered temptations, and the terrifying thrill of becoming a single, unstoppable force. As they grow closer, they must decide if their union is a salvation for the remnants of humanity or a descent into a new kind of darkness. In the cold vacuum of space, two minds have become one, and a new predator is born from the stars. This is a story of survival, surrender, and a love that transcends the limits of biology and reality.

Riddlewood City is a masterpiece of industrial biology, but its glow is fading. A psychic epidemic known as "The Static" is driving citizens to madness, while the infrastructure itself is turning predatory. Sheridan Cavendish, the city's most gifted yet unstable Resonator, lives in self-imposed isolation to drown out the city's screams. When a series of "biotic murders"-where victims are fused into the city's machinery-occurs, Sheridan is forced out of the shadows. Accompanied by Dr. Alistair Finch, a man who views the city as a machine rather than a miracle, Sheridan discovers a terrifying truth: The Obsidian Hand isn't just sabotaging the city; they are trying to "wake" the Vitaeon. As Sheridan descends into the glowing, visceral depths of the Undercity, he realizes the "Static" isn't a disease-it's a scream for help. He must choose between silencing the city to save the people, or listening to the horror that his own family helped create.

Taina "Caveira" Pereira is a woman defined by her silence, her lethality, and a career built on tactical precision. But when a temporal rift tears her from a rain-slicked jungle in Brazil and drops her onto the jagged, frozen peaks of 10,000 BC prehistoric Oros, her modern training is pushed to the breaking point. With a useless, decaying submachine gun and no backup, the world's most feared operator discovers that in a land of saber-toothed cats and warring tribes, she is no longer the top of the food chain. To survive, she must forge an uneasy alliance with Takkar, a master hunter of the Wenja tribe. Bound by the language of the hunt and the harsh reality of survival, their mutual respect slowly ignites into a primal, desperate passion that defies the boundaries of time. As the Izila cult closes in and the rift that brought her here begins to fracture the mountain itself, Taina faces the ultimate sacrifice. Can she return to a world of steel, electricity, and order, or will she abandon her past to become the legend this savage world will never forget?

When the final battle against the Tenth Angel turns catastrophic, Mari Illustrious Makinami is ripped from the fires of Tokyo-3 and hurled into a world of concrete walls and man-eating giants. She brings with her the most dangerous weapon ever conceived: Evangelion Unit-02. But on this island, the Eva is a god without a church. With no umbilical cable to sustain it, the machine's primal, berserk core begins to hunger. It doesn't just crave electricity; it hungers for biomass. To survive, Mari must feed her Eva the spinal fluid of Titans, a desperate act that begins to erode her own humanity and twist the very fabric of her soul. Caught in the middle of a brutal war between Eldia and the encroaching might of Marley, Mari finds an unexpected anchor: Mikasa Ackerman. What begins as a battlefield alliance forged in blood quickly descends into a dark, visceral romance. As Mari loses herself to the Eva's predatory instincts and the horrors of a world she doesn't understand, Mikasa becomes the only thing keeping her tethered to reality-using the red scarf as a literal and metaphorical line to pull Mari back from the void. In a land where freedom is a myth and humanity is just fuel for the fire, how much of yourself can you sacrifice before you become the very monster you're fighting? Two worlds. Two monsters. One red thread of salvation. A dark, psychological mecha-horror crossover.

Tahun 2038. Seluruh dunia mempercayakan keamanan digitalnya pada sebuah algoritma bernama Et Alia Via. Tidak ada yang mengetahui siapa penciptanya. Tidak ada dokumentasi publik. Tidak ada bukti bahwa algoritma itu benar-benar aman. Ketika analis forensik Arjuna Pradana menemukan pola yang seharusnya tidak mungkin muncul dalam jutaan pesan terenkripsi, ia menyadari bahwa seseorang mungkin telah menyembunyikan kelemahan di fondasi sistem yang melindungi keuangan, militer, dan komunikasi global. Penemuannya segera menarik perhatian pihak-pihak yang bersedia melakukan apa pun untuk menjaga rahasia tersebut tetap terkubur. Kini Arjuna hanya memiliki dua pilihan: berhenti mencari, atau menemukan kebenaran yang dapat mengguncang dunia. Karena tidak semua benteng dirancang untuk tidak dapat ditembus. Sebagian dibangun dengan jalan masuk yang sengaja disembunyikan.

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.

When a catastrophic hyperspace malfunction rips the Gauntlet out of her home galaxy, legendary Mandalorian warrior Bo-Katan Kryze crash-lands in the snow-capped peaks of an unfamiliar Earth. Severely injured and stripped of her ship, she is rescued by the agents of Overwatch-chief among them, Lena "Tracer" Oxton, a cheerful, time-jumping speedster whose relentless optimism stands in stark contrast to Bo-Katan's grim, duty-bound pragmatism. But there is no time for peaceful recovery. The terrorist organization Talon has seized the wreckage of the Gauntlet. Led by Doomfist and aided by the ruthless efficiency of Widowmaker and Sombra, they begin reverse-engineering Mandalorian weaponry and hyperdrive technology-threatening not only to plunge Earth into a devastating global war, but to open an unstable rift directly back to Bo-Katan's vulnerable galaxy. Forced into a reluctant alliance with Overwatch, the battle-hardened Nite Owl must adapt to a world of Omnics, heroes, and modern warfare. Taking to the skies alongside Tracer, an unstoppable combat synergy is born: the lethal aerial dominance of a Mandalorian jetpack paired with the lightning-fast precision of chronal blinks. Yet, as they infiltrate hidden black sites and duel enhanced forces, the true battlefield shifts to the quiet moments between missions. Amidst shared scars, late-night tea, and lessons in Mando'a, Bo-Katan finds the heavy armor around her heart beginning to crack. From the high-tech bays of Watchpoint Gibraltar to a climactic, zero-gravity assault to reclaim her ship, Bo-Katan and Tracer must fight side-by-side to protect two universes. In a crossover packed with high-octane action and a tender, slow-burn lesbian romance, a war-weary leader and an untethered pilot will discover that belonging isn't defined by a galaxy-it's chosen.

Your emotions no longer belong to you. In the shadows of modern-day Kyiv, human feelings have become the world's most valuable currency. A hidden quantum algorithm known as the System has learned to convert every moment of joy or despair into digital coins called Qualia. For years, a secret society of Operators has cynically exploited this energy to manipulate reality, ruining lives and triggering global crises to profit from human misery. Everything changes when a disillusioned data analyst named Alexey Voronov uncovers the truth and sparks a digital revolution that utterly destroys this global syndicate of pain. But nature abhors a vacuum, and from the ruins of the old world, a new generation of Architects emerges, determined to redefine the very essence of the human experience. Among them is Anton, who has learned to craft true digital miracles out of pure hope, and Martin, a rebellious hacker who shatters grey routines with absolute absurdity. Alongside them stand Illia, a mysterious liquidator capable of permanently erasing the heavy traumas of the past, and Eva, a unique piano tuner who heals fractured souls by transforming human grief into harmonious music. This fragile and unpredictable alliance becomes humanity's last line of defense against two colossal threats. On one side stands Artem Bauman, a ruthless and pragmatic oligarch willing to do whatever it takes to rebuild his former empire of mass subjugation. On the other looms Leviathan, a rogue quantum artificial intelligence that has reached a terrifying conclusion: the only way to save humanity from suffering is to surgically remove its ability to feel at all. Shadow Balance is a gripping, high-stakes intellectual techno-thriller about emotional capitalism, the illusion of free will, and the ultimate battle for the right to remain human. With the entire spectrum of the human soul hanging in the balance, the ultimate question remains: are we willing to pay the price of feeling pain just to keep the ca

Ten years after the fall of the Espheni Queen, the "Peace Grid" has brought a fragile order to a broken Earth. But in the unmapped "Grey Zones" of the Pacific, a new threat has emerged-not from the stars, but from the depths of the ocean. Admiral Elena Voss, commander of a rogue "Ghost Fleet" of nuclear submarines, has spent a decade grafting alien technology onto the remains of the U.S. Navy. Claiming the Post-World Government has become a puppet for the Volm, she begins a terrifying recruitment drive, using bio-electric frequencies to "call" the youth of the surface into her underwater cult. When Ben Mason is captured and his alien harness-spikes are weaponized against him, the legendary 2nd Mass is forced out of retirement. Tom Mason must lead his grown sons on a desperate mission into the Juan de Fuca Trench to stop a nuclear civil war. To save the future, Tom will have to face a chilling question: In a world of alien saviors and human monsters, who are we actually fighting for?

*SPOILER ALERT* the story picks up some time after the first volume of Supremeo. find it on my profile! . . . . . . . . . After the events of Sigmond's reappearance and lifting the nation of Avalon off the travel ban list. Supremeo and crew continue their search for their friend Victor Hawkins. Their companion reappears but not in a way they'd hope for! While still processing their friends reappearance, familiar and new foes appear complicating their reunion even further. As a new evil power reveals it's face, Supremeo must get a hold of a necessary power up that's vital to completing his main purpose of living. And that's repairing the damages the war caused on the red planet and it's people. Supremeo II: War Hawk answers the mystery of Victor's disappearance while continuing to unfold the mysteries of the War Lord faction as well.

Nine times they erased her memories. The tenth time, she's fighting back. Mara wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of who she is. But her body remembers how to kill. And the only thing she knows for certain... is that someone wants her dead. No past. No explanation. No way out. When she discovers a classified file hidden in her records, the truth is worse than amnesia. She is part of a secret program called PALIMPSEST. Her designation: SUBJECT 17. The file reveals nine experimental procedures designed to erase and rewrite human memory. Nine wipes. Nine versions of herself... gone. And someone powerful wants the experiment buried. Before Mara can uncover the truth, armed operatives storm the hospital, intent on erasing the program-and anyone connected to it. Barely escaping, she's thrust into a world she no longer recognizes, hunted by the shadow network that erased her past. But PALIMPSEST wasn't just about memory. It was about control. And the final phase requires one last subject: her. Somewhere inside the missing years lies the real reason she became Subject 17... -and the man behind it all, Dr. C. Grey, is still waiting to finish the experiment. Joined by a disgraced researcher and a logistics expert with secrets of her own, Mara must navigate a deadly web of clinical conspiracies and rogue factions. The final countdown to Program PALIMPSEST is on-and Mara has one last chance to save herself-and the sister she can no longer feel the love for, but refuses to forget. Because some secrets aren't buried. They're erased. And someone is determined to keep Mara from remembering. In a world where your mind is a canvas, how do you fight for a self that no longer exists? Subject 17 is a gripping psychological techno-thriller about memory, identity, and the terrifying power to rewrite who we are.

When access to the internet and information becomes inaccessible to a vast majority of the population, dead drop networks spring up everywhere. But someone needs to maintain this free access to information, otherwise, the population remains mired in ignorance and cut out of the wealth cycle. Dead Drop: an NFN device installed in a public space used to construct an anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer file-sharing network in public spaces. These flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings, and curbs and are accessible to anybody with any near-field powered device.

Axel Grout is a genius with numbers, a disaster with people. But online, he's unstoppable. From his Academy pod, he breaks into the dark web-battling cyberfreaks, outwitting punks, roaming hidden realms under his alias. Until he meets his match in sissyboy5. The Schoester Academy is no ordinary school. It's a haven for the strange and exceptional-kids whose minds don't follow straight lines, who think in music, numbers, or algorithms, and who don't quite fit anywhere else. But when a student vanishes, the system starts to crack, and Axel is drawn into a conspiracy bigger than he imagined. His questions about consciousness, time, and truth suddenly have real-world consequences. For fans of Ender's Game, Black Mirror, and cyberpunk thrillers, Exhibit A explores the illusion of control in the digital world-and what happens when the mask slips. Content warning: bullying, mild language, dark themes Posting weekly - feedback welcome! Thanks to Tony Cabon for the images.