Darkscifi Stories

Kael Arden was just a hunter-gatherer trying to keep his family alive in a harsh world. But while out scavenging the woods, his little sister, Mira, witnessed something she couldn't explain-something that would shatter their quiet reality and change the course of their lives forever. Follow Kael's dangerous and tragic journey through a ruined world as he fights to uncover the dirty secrets of his foes. Forced into an uneasy alliance with a dangerously unpredictable, lab-coat-wearing wild card, he must survive her erratic antics as much as the threats hunting them. Cornered by powerful forces and desperate to protect what's left, he will tear through the darkness to save his family from impending doom-no matter the cost. Where cyberpunk meets a dystopian world. Experience a dark, fast-paced Sci-Fi Action novel featuring bio-augments, tactical combat, and deadly humanoid creatures-are they human, or monsters?

The future did not need everyone. Incellad was one of the people it kept anyway. Taken from his family as a child, implanted, and sent to a streaming studio in dead Moscow, he earns his freedom by selling emotions to people rich enough to buy another person's inner life. His gift is unusual: he can transmit the feeling of home so purely that strangers weep inside their own minds. But the freedom he is saving for may be nothing but another manufactured dream. When the systems feeding the studio fail, Incellad and Stepana are forced into the ruins of a world where no one knows who rules, who pays, or why the unwanted are still being kept alive. The answer waits above Earth - on a station where humanity's last masters are losing control of the intelligence they created. To survive, Incellad will have to cross the boundary between body and machine, love and instinct, human and inhuman. And once he does, the question will no longer be whether he can save himself. It will be whether humanity should be saved at all. Content note: This story contains dark dystopian themes, emotional and bodily exploitation, violence, blood, death, and psychological distress.

Oliver Kral is a competitive gamer who just washed out of a Prague esports tournament. The loss stings, but it's nothing compared to what comes next. Within days, Oliver and a woman he barely knows are ripped from their lives and strapped to examination tables inside a featureless white chamber. Their captors are small, silent, and unmistakably not human. No explanations or demands. Just restraints, sedation, and routines designed to strip away everything familiar. He's not alone. Other captives have been here longer. An intelligence agent. A mob boss. A medic. A linguist. Each one carrying a different piece of a puzzle none of them asked to solve. Together, they begin mapping the patterns of their prison, looking for cracks in a system built by something far more advanced than anything on Earth. Then a voice appears inside Oliver's mind. It calls itself Shadow. It claims to be a fragment of something their captors tried to destroy. It offers knowledge, perception, and a way out. But freedom has a price. And Shadow isn't telling him everything. Set in Central Europe, Xenoforming is a grounded first contact story about ordinary people pushed past every limit they thought they had. Survival, adaptation, and the growing suspicion that their abduction was never random. This is the first book in the Xenoforming series.

Katherine travels 700 years into the past to save Margot, a young woman sentenced to death by her own village.

THE CRUSADERS #1 - SUN EATER SUMMER IS OVER. Across the world, August suddenly turns to winter. Snow falls over Florida. Ice spreads across highways. Cities freeze. Power grids begin to fail. And nobody knows why. When Debi Jones - Stargazer of Earth - flies beyond the atmosphere searching for answers, she discovers the terrifying truth: Something has attached itself to the Sun. Something ancient. Something impossible. And it isn't blocking the light. It's feeding on it. Stargazer races to the hidden asteroid headquarters of THE CRUSADERS, joining Captain Wonder, Nova Man, Spacehawk, Mighty Man, Redhawk, Akuria, and the brilliant android Xenon as they confront a mystery unlike anything even their advanced technology can explain. The Sun is weakening. Earth is freezing. And whatever has found our star... is getting hungrier. THE CRUSADERS #1 SUN EATER The beginning of a cosmic nightmare that will change the Crusaders forever. THE CRUSADERS #1 - SUN EATER SUMMER IS OVER. Across the world, August suddenly turns to winter. Snow falls over Florida. Ice spreads across highways. Cities freeze. Power grids begin to fail. And nobody knows why. When Debi Jones - Stargazer of Earth - flies beyond the atmosphere searching for answers, she discovers the terrifying truth: Something has attached itself to the Sun. Something ancient. Something impossible. And it isn't blocking the light. It's feeding on it. Stargazer races to the hidden asteroid headquarters of THE CRUSADERS, joining Captain Wonder, Nova Man, Spacehawk, Mighty Man, Redhawk, Akuria, and the brilliant android Xenon as they confront a mystery unlike anything even their advanced technology can explain. The Sun is weakening. Earth is freezing. And whatever has found our star... is getting hungrier. THE CRUSADERS #1 SUN EATER The beginning of a cosmic nightmare that will change the Crusaders forever.

Ein einziges instabiles Artefakt reichte aus, um sein gesamtes Gedächtnis auszulöschen. Er weiß nicht mehr, wer er war. Er weiß nicht mehr, wie die Welt draußen funktioniert. Er ist nur noch ein Skimmer - ein wertloser Überlebender, der für das System den Dreck wegmacht. Doch als er im eisigen Dunkel seines Bunkers zu sich kommt, ist da noch etwas. Ein blasses, sterbendes Mädchen liegt vor ihm - und in seinem Kopf hämmern unaufhörlich diese drei Worte: Sie ist krank. Er kennt ihren Namen nicht. Er erkennt ihr Gesicht nicht. Und doch spürt er mit jeder Faser seines Seins, dass er ohne sie verloren ist. Um ihr Leben zu retten, bleibt ihm nur ein einziger Ausweg: Er muss tief in das strahlenverseuchte Ödland von Zone 17 vordringen. Zwischen tödlichen Anomalien, verfallener Technologie und den Schatten seiner eigenen gelöschten Vergangenheit kämpft er gegen die Zeit. Denn während er sich mit jedem Schritt aufs Neue in die Frau verliebt, die er vergessen hat, hütet Zone 17 ein düsteres Geheimnis - und die Suche nach einem Heilmittel könnte ihn weit mehr kosten als nur seine Erinnerungen.

In a world where identity is regulated, archived, and corrected by the state, existence itself is conditional. When Investigator Conrad Vale is called to examine a corpse that should not exist, he discovers something impossible. The body is his. Same face. Same scars. Same DNA. Branded with a ribcage sigil the system refuses to recognize, the corpse exposes a truth the Identity Bureau has spent decades burying. As more "Mirrorfalls" appear, people duplicated from erased possibilities, Conrad uncovers a forbidden past involving childhood experiments, forced identity separation, and a twin the system deleted to preserve order. His name is Cassian Rael. And Cassian did not stay erased. Hunted by the Bureau, shadowed by a killer who may be more himself than enemy, and aided by a detective whose own history has been quietly rewritten, Conrad is forced to confront a question more dangerous than murder. Who decides which version of a person deserves to exist? As the grid that governs reality begins to fracture, the state prepares its ultimate solution: Rollback. A protocol designed to collapse timelines, erase alternates, and restore the illusion of a single, manageable world. To approve it is to commit silent genocide. To refuse it is to let reality splinter. Caught between collapse and mercy, Conrad must choose whether to become the weapon the system designed or the fault line that breaks it open. The Mirrorfall Protocol is a dark, cerebral science fiction thriller about identity, memory, and the violence hidden inside systems that claim to protect us. It asks a haunting question that lingers long after the final page. If every memory you have is a theft, what do you owe the person it was stolen from?

The Noah Clade and Kind saved him its only fair they ate him. Great White Sharks In Space. What more could you possibly want or need?

She was sent to kill a monster. She found a boy instead. In 1765, a dying boy looks up at her and calls her an angel. In 3127, history calls him the man who ended humanity. LYX-R4 was never meant to hesitate. But her system cannot reconcile one truth: How does a child become a god worth killing? Now every miracle is a mistake. Every choice is a fracture in time. And the closer she gets to stopping him... the more she realizes: She might be the reason he becomes him.

A collection of short stories/one-shots that revolve around this plotline: Aliens found Earth. In short, they weren't friendly. They enslaved humans, killed all who disobeyed, and were all around just terrible. Now, 120 years later, slavery still exists in the galaxy, but most alien species aren't cool with it. At all. Therefore, humans have way more freedom, but are still heavily oppressed. All of these short stories revolve around what humans are doing in the galaxy from different perspectives and different planets, whether it be cyber-punk, dystopian, or just a normal farm life on a random planet in a random corner of the galaxy, who knows? Hope you enjoy.

When a group of scientists discover that reality is forgetting it exists, one woman must teach the universe how to remember - before silence consumes everything.

Have you ever wanted to live ANOTHER LIFE...? A VR addict receives an anonymous letter hooking her on the idea of true love. A starship commander, accused of killing his wife, takes a drug to absolve himself of his sins. An ex-con is forced to kill for sport to keep his captive daughter alive. An astronaut is infected by an alien pathogen that robs her of her identity. An alien race repels human colonization using their unique affinity for mushroom spores. A desert wanderer finds a sentient supercomputer with a plan to restart civilization. And a young man emerges from forty years of cryostasis, cured of a terminal disease, only to find his world has moved on just enough to leave him behind. MIKE MARSBERGEN has written over a hundred stories, nine of which are featured here in ANOTHER LIFE, his first collection of science-fiction stories. Sometimes tragic and romantic, other times violent and disturbing, each of these nine speculative stories will take readers on a mindbending journey to places they won't expect.

"ReGenx" revolves around Phillip and Anna Kemp, owners of a biotech company specializing in reversing aging. Their breakthrough attracts the elite, who can afford their services. Unbeknownst to all, the Kemps harbor a dark secret involving the creation of human body suits. These suits are sourced from young adults with ideal genetics, but the truth behind their acquisition is sinister. Dr. Fran Paradise aids in transferring clients into these suits. College student Lori joins ReGenx as an intern, setting off a series of events. Her friend Ella begins to investigate Lori's disappearance and discovers disturbing truths that put her life at risk. As the story unfolds, shocking revelations come to light, ultimately leading to a chilling climax.

In a not too distant future, Mankind was faced with a harsh truth ... Abandon Planet Earth. Follow the reports of the Fugitives, who observe the Blue Planet becoming a small spot in an ocean of increasingly bright stars.

Glass Hearts is a dystopian psychological thriller that plunges readers into a world where emotions are outlawed and obedience is everything. Under a cold regime that manipulates minds and monitors every thought, survival means silence-and connection is treason. But when a group of unlikely allies begins to awaken to the truth, their fragile bonds become their only weapon. Shattered by loss, hunted by those once trusted, and tormented by the ghosts of who they used to be, they must fight not only the system, but the darkness within. In a world built on control, resistance begins with a single fracture.

When Mark Adler's quiet life is shattered by the arrival of a desperate stranger, he's thrust into a deadly conspiracy tied to the classified Lyric Project-a secret he thought was buried forever. As shadowy forces close in, Mark must uncover the truth about his past and the project's terrifying implications, all while staying one step ahead of those who will stop at nothing to silence him. In a world where trust is fragile and danger lurks in every shadow, the only way out is through the veil.

"Can you teach mercy to a machine? Or teach a human to become a machine?" In a city where order is absolute, chaos is the ultimate sin. Aeternum is a cage built of glass and code. Those inside flee from their humanity to survive, while those outside run from monsters. Here, identities are erased, memories rewritten, and bodies merged with metal. Yet, a group of "Glitches" is preparing to throw a wrench into the gears of the system. A broken soldier, a hacker with a conscience, an analog detective, and a scrap hunter in the desert... Their paths differ, but their enemy remains the same: A future without a soul. System: "Obey." Human: "I refuse." This is not just the story of a city; it is the story of the human soul's redemption.

Infiltration Arc A suicide mission. A living ship. And the ultimate predator awakened. The sabotage operation aboard the colossal Lelomo has gone terribly wrong. What began as an act of strategic bravery descends into a brutal hunt through shadowy corridors, organic traps, and breathing passageways. Inside this living labyrinth, the Martian infiltrators no longer fight for victory-they fight to survive. Hunted by an unstoppable force, every decision, every step, every mistake could be their last. The Lelomo shows no mercy. And neither does its master. As time runs out and hope fades, the remaining survivors come face to face with a terrifying truth: Some destinies cannot be avoided. And there are forces in the universe that leave no witnesses.

GOD IS BUT A PROGRAM. MAN IS BUT A VESSEL. They did not descend from the heavens to save us. They returned because their digital immortality began to rot. The Elohim-post-human deities of pure energy, imprisoned on the sterile orbital station S.Y.O.N.-destroyed the Earth eons ago in their pursuit of power. Now, stripped of senses and empathy, they desperately seek a return to biology. Adam and Eve are no miracle of creation. They are the product of the E.D.I.T.H. protocol-a biomechanical reconstruction cast into the radioactive dust of Mesopotamia to test if human flesh can endure the weight of divine wrath. In the shadow of rusting skyscrapers, beneath the whispers of the rebel serpent NAHASH, an error was born that no algorithm could foresee: Cain. The first son of Earth, who knows no humility and, instead of prayer, whets his blade of black glass. While Yahweh weeps golden data and Moloch glares from orbit through his blood-red visor, a new power awakens below. The rage of the firstborn, who intends to find out if gods can bleed. Step into a world where the Deluge is a system procedure, and the only hope for freedom is the shedding of divine blood.

They called it Another Way To Serve. Kime called it a door that smelled wrong. He walked through it anyway. Inside: a number instead of a name. Injections he stops questioning. A plexiglass wall separating what he is from what they need him to become. And a doctor named Corro Voss who brings contraband oranges on Fridays and writes compliant, suppressed in Kime's file while hiding everything that actually matters. Outside: wolves that aren't behaving like wolves anymore. Getting closer. Getting bolder. The facility thinks it owns Kime's body. It hasn't met what his body is becoming. Some doors only open from one side. Until they don't. Dark omegaverse | slow burn romance | dystopia | M/M