Authoritarian Stories

Thousands of years into the future, humanity has surpassed all bounds thought possible. The edge of the universe, for example, is one of the former constraints that once baffled the minds of men. The edge, now called the Fringe, now holds the perfect city of 12th Landing. There is no hunger, no illness, no misery, and upholds the four Cardinal values: Temperance, Justice, Prudence, and Fortitude. Behold the daily lives of the citizens of 12th Landing, in all their shapes and forms, and find that all walks of life eventually succumb to Unity.

The poor pay more, yet they are the proudest. Pummeled, punished, and proud. But from a single invitation after years of unknown interaction, a fair but fierce maiden gets to see how the other half lives: unbound, unstressed, and unbelievably distant. When 30 million light-years at 30 times your size ask you on a date in a literal blink of an eye, can you say 'No?' (Cover made with Autodesk Sketchbook and Adobe Spark)

The government has created a plague that can be targeted to individuals. They are using it to control protests and cause fear in the people. Martial law is declared and the government has total control. Three young activists try to cure the plague and the dictatorship.

It's been 205 years since the Day of the Crimson Sky, and the heat of summer is just beginning to burn in the Southern Realms. Crossing back into his home country from a diplomatic mission, is Bhent, the Dictator's Representative. He is now to return to the capital of Dawnton to report on the mission, not knowing of the conspiracy growing around him. This is the first chapter in the second draft of my current WIP. Depending on reactions I'll post continuous chapters in a sort of series. I would love feedback about how this is as an opening chapter.

Resist, by Roy Swift, is a poetry and essay collection dedicated to all who resist authoritarian rule. A certain group of people are trying to upend 80 years of work, not only in the US, but many countries across the globe. This is my resistance against them.

Fiends are monsters. Recon was made to erase them. Charley has spent her life believing that-trained to hunt, bred to obey, and destined for a future she didn't choose. In her world, love is a liability and bodies are contracts enforced by law. Then, a routine mission goes wrong. When Charley encounters a Fiend who looks human, the certainty she's built her life on fractures. As secrets surface and loyalty is tested, she begins to question whether the real threat lies beyond the walls... or within them. Because the most dangerous things aren't always seen. Sometimes, they're taught.

This story follows Luka, a Croatian resistance fighter, as Russia expands into Eastern Europe following Ukraine's rejection of a peace treaty with the U.S. As Russia invades Ukraine, Luka joins the fight to defend his homeland, alongside his cousin Ema, navigating war, loss, and the struggle for a free Europe.

Dale Hendrix is a 55-year-old climatologist who lives with his wife Elaine. One day she is kidnapped and taken into a portal. Dale enters the portal and finds himself in a strange new world. Is this another dimension? Who took his wife? Find out and read Ilya Larin's newest book.

Delve into the tumultuous world of a dictators circle through the eyes of a new assistant. As power clashes with conceince, the assistant must navigate their own moral compass in a dangerous game of loyalty and ambition. A tale of intrigue, one of power struggles, will the assistant embrace their newfound position or resist the seductive pull of authority? A heart gripping tale of secrets, betrayal unfolds deep in the shadows of a ruthless regime.

A man walks alone at night in a city taken over by an authoritarian government, then finds himself dragged into something much darker and stranger. Genre mixing excercise - dystopia meets cosmic horror.

When Graeson's life within a militarized rebellion takes a sudden turn, he is forced to face the tricky business of idolization and deal with the side effects of loyalty. He finds himself fighting a battle between morality and ambition without knowing if he can have both. Graeson finds out just how far people are willing to go to survive and how much farther they'll go to triumph. The only question is how far he's willing to go to stop them and how many lines he'll cross to get there.

zerotechuniverse.com Vealyn's world is shattered when her husband is executed for using forbidden technology to save her life. Forced to escape the merciless regime that outlaws machines, Vealyn's survival depends on risking everything to flee her frozen home planet. Driven by grief, memory, and a fierce need to defy an archaic society, Vealyn embarks on a journey that abandons tired sci-fi formulas. Zero Tech refuses plot armor and the overplayed hero's journey. It challenges the boundaries of what it means to persist, to innovate, and to reimagine humanity itself. This is the sci-fi story that dares to ask: what comes after tragedy, and how do you move forward when all hope seems lost?

"Keep your mouth sealed about this, and don't even think of fighting back, you scum. Prey doesn't escape - it never has." A kidnapping no one could envision. People from somewhere no one had heard of. Fatal secrets. Questions regarding the very fundamentals of her life and the kingdom she resides in. In a world where anything could be a lie and trusting people is a choice rather than an instinct, Sayaka decides that she cannot stay complacent anymore. With her brother Hizushi, she embarks on a journey not only to get what she lost to the kidnappers, but to discover what had been hidden all along. Being barely 12, will the odds work in her favour, or will she crumble before her world does?

In a dystopian future where every word is monitored, staying neutral is the only way to survive. Sara has spent years avoiding attention-playing both sides, following the rules, and protecting her daughters at all costs. But when a routine school visit turns into a checkpoint interrogation, everything begins to unravel. One daughter is selected for the Ethnic Beauty Initiative-a programme designed to control bodies, loyalty, and the future. The other is already attracting the wrong kind of attention. And now Sara has been marked. With a surveillance badge tracking her every move, even her thoughts are no longer safe. As rival factions tighten their grip and fear spreads through the streets, a voice from her past offers something dangerous: a way out. But escape comes at a cost. Because in a world built on control, hope is rebellion-and rebellion is punished.

To love is to live. That's what the city teaches. Nova Lee Bekher is fifteen years old and not supposed to exist. In a world where peace is enforced, and anyone who breaks the rules simply disappears, Nova has spent her entire life hidden-illegal, unregistered, and silent. Because Nova is a twin. When one mistake draws the attention of the Takers-the ones who erase people-Nova is ripped from her home and into a sterile world of surveillance, surgery, and control. Meanwhile, her identical sister Luna is left behind, forced to pretend Nova never existed while slowly uncovering the truth the city is desperate to hide. As secrets surface and lies crack, the sisters learn why identical twins are forbidden-and why the system fears them together. This is a story about identity, control, forbidden existence, and what happens when the truth is finally seen. They taught everyone to love quietly. The twins are about to teach them to live freely.

In the Concord, love is a program-not a feeling. At twenty-two, Liova gets one chance to match before the system quietly decides she's better off alone. At the government-run Coupling Party, everything is staged: recycled décor, endless tests, a scripted speech. Liova wants to succeed. She wants to belong. Then she meets Coren. He's charming in a way that feels practiced, familiar in a way that feels designed. Choosing him isn't rebellion. It's alignment. And Liova has to decide what's more frightening: going against the Concord... or wanting exactly what it wants. Because the Concord is never what it seems. And what appears to be a love story might be far more sinister under the surface. There's always calm before the storm. 🌧️ I'm updating regularly until it's complete-come join the journey. 💕

To interdimensional traveler Ryder Steele, a new Earth usually just means a new radio station to dial into. But when his ship, the Cosmo X, lands in a distorted timeline of Earth, he's greeted only by static and an eerie, looping broadcast: "Purity is peace. Order is freedom." Ryder has stumbled into New Washington-a sterile, rain-slicked dystopia ruled by the iron grip of President Baron Vane. Here, compliance is mandatory, the air is choked by drone patrols, and every citizen's worth is violently decided by a mandatory biometric chip embedded beneath their skin. Blue means safe. Red means you disappear into the restricted Sectors forever. When Ryder steps in to save a Sector kid from a brutal Enforcer patrol, he unwittingly paints a target on his own back. With the Cosmo X locked down by a city-wide surveillance grid and his own biometric signature flagged as an "unknown variable," the easy exit he's used on thirty other Earths is suddenly gone. Now, trapped in a timeline where resistance is a death sentence, Ryder is pulled into the city's hidden underground. To survive, he'll have to ally with Ameria Justice-a former superhero broken by the regime-and a scrappy political campaign trying to fight a rigged system from the shadows. Ryder Steele is used to running. But on an Earth that has forgotten how to fight back, he might just have to stay and finish the job.