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The future is now. An extremely powerful short story about human emotions and awareness of the climate change effects. A fragile, unique city. A journey through a country in ruins. The complicated relationship 'Father to Son'. What are we really doing to combat the effects of global warming? Make Think.

Die Zukunft ist jetzt. Eine wahnsinnig fesselnde Kurzgeschichte über menschliche Emotionen und das Bewusstsein über den Klimawandel. Eine einzigartige aber zerbrechliche Stadt. Die komplizierte Beziehung zwischen "Vater & Sohn". Eine Reise durch ein Land aus Ruinen. Was machen wir wirklich um die globale Erwärmung aufzuhalten? "Make Think"

A chance encounter on a mission of exploration. An expedition to an alien vessel. An outcome that defies explanation... All I wanted was to sleep. No sensorium, no wrabbles washing over me. No drug-induced, pain-tinged hibernation. Just a deep peaceful sleep. Halfway into our mission of exploration, we stumbled upon a petal ship rising from the plumes of a gas giant’s atmosphere. The captain tasked us to explore. We roused, prepared, and landed without expectations, previous visits to these massive alien vessels bearing little fruit.

What if the red light wasn’t stopping traffic but stopping your life? The Red Light Never Changed is a gripping collection of twelve mysterious stories where ordinary people encounter impossible places, frozen moments, forgotten choices, and roads that should not exist. A traffic signal refuses to turn green. A phone call will not end. A train waits at a platform but never departs. A hotel hides a room that should not exist. A single day begins repeating. A town’s clocks stop at the same moment. A strange window reveals yesterday. And beyond one final red light lies a road with no way back.

An emotional grounded sci-fi tale that speaks to the sandwich generation and the role reversal parents and their children grapple with as they age, Raising Father follows an estranged father and son who get a unique opportunity to re-do their relationship when the son elects to raise his father, born anew from a legal yet controversial reboot technology.

A collection of 6 out of this world short stories that incorporate sci fi and the unusual.. This collection of science fiction shorts, explores themes of cosmic indifference, the fragility of reality, and the heavy burden of humanity's attempts to comprehend the unknown. The narratives examine how human curiosity and the drive to control existence often lead to unintended, catastrophic consequences

A bachelor party. A machine that resurrects the dead. And a gift that should never have been opened. It was supposed to be the ultimate gift. Four friends, one last free night, and a private suite at EternaAI where the most advanced technology on earth can summon anyone from the past, breathing and present and real. For the groom, they choose a legend: a silver-screen goddess gone for half a century. They pay for the version that withholds nothing. What they encounter is not the woman from the posters. It's someone far more real...

The Silence was a forty-year lie. The Hunger is the final truth. For four decades, the world has belonged to the women. After Elara Vance’s viral "Silence" erased the male sex, humanity rebuilt itself in the image of peace. The Republic of Neo-Genoa and the New York Archive rose as monuments to a world without "friction." But the cradle was always a cage. Now, the first generation of synthetic men—the "New Men"—has reached maturity. It was supposed to be the dawn of a restored species. Instead, it is the trigger for the Vance Fail-Safe.

In a fractured world where life rises and disappears without memory, one presence remains. Rooted deep within a silent divide, an ancient tree endures—watching the endless cycles of emergence and fading that surround it. Nothing lingers. Nothing returns. Everything passes…except the tree. Shaped by isolation and time, it becomes something different. A quiet awareness forms within it—one that does not dissolve with the rest of existence. What once defined its apartness begins to reveal itself as something else entirely. Strength.

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre. This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential 'Beyond Lies the Wub' and 'Second Variety', as well as a litany of mind-expanding other...

Centuries after a devastating war shattered Earth’s ecology, humanity clings to survival under the doctrine of “The Balance” a belief that nature must recover without human interference. But Gwendolyn Robbins, Director of Genetics at the Wildlife Foundation, sees a dying world that cannot heal on its own. Defying the Council’s orders, she dares to recreate the creatures of legend, pegasi and unicorns, from the genetic remnants of the Ancestors. As politics, fear, and faith collide, Gwendolyn’s work may hold the key to restoring life, or doom what remains of it.

Para alguns, a tecnologia é o prenúncio do fim do mundo. Para outros, é apenas o começo de uma nova era. Renomado escritor de ficção científica, autor dos best-sellers Matéria escura e Recursão, Blake Crouch convidou grandes nomes da literatura contemporânea para traçar histórias audaciosas que mergulham nos desdobramentos que os avanços tecnológicos acarretam à humanidade.

Archy is all grown up, so it is only fitting that now he is fighting vampires in a dark castle.

Some love stories feel written in the stars. Others feel like warnings we ignored from the beginning. Zodiac Romances is a cinematic urban romance anthology inspired by the emotional energy of the zodiac signs — exploring passion, obsession, vulnerability, heartbreak, emotional growth, and the complicated ways people love. Each chapter follows a different couple. Different chemistry. Different struggles. Different outcomes. An Aries falls too fast. A Taurus loves hard enough to become controlling. A Gemini struggles with emotional consistency. A Scorpio confuses obsession with destiny.

Death. Survival. Eternity. When asteroids destroy the massive spaceship, Keep, home to a billion souls, a small group of survivors faces the ultimate test of humanity. Keshawn, consumed by grief over his girlfriend's death, refuses evacuation until forcibly saved by his closest friend. His sister Tanisha's mental health deteriorates as she deals with the outcome, while their leader Bianca shoulders the burden of impossible choices that will haunt her for centuries to come. This profound science fiction drama marks a stunning addition to the space opera genre.

Am Anfang einer neuen Zeit – das 22. Jahrhundert hat gerade erst begonnen: Die Menschheit hat die Planeten und Monde des eigenen Sonnensystems besiedelt. Allerdings wachsen seit einiger Zeit die Spannungen: Die Siedler sind unzufrieden, sie fühlen sich von den Menschen der Erde missverstanden. Im Jahr 2102 droht der Konflikt zu eskalieren.

In den vergangenen dreißig Jahren haben die Menschen die Lokale Blase rund um das Sonnensystem besiedelt. In relativer Nähe zur Erde sind neun Kolonien entstanden. Doch die genetisch angepassten Menschen streben nach Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung. Sie wollen die Unabhängigkeit von der Terranischen Union. Was sie nicht wissen: Vor langer Zeit waren ihre Welten Teil einer gewaltigen Maschine – des Nonagons. Diese Maschine sollte die Milchstraße vor einer furchtbaren Gefahr schützen.

What connects these twenty-four stories is an exploration of place. It can be a location nearby like in Boardwalk Oracle where a clanging candy dispensing machine plays matchmaker in a story that flirts with magical realism. Or the depth of a glacier on a faraway planet in Icebound, where science fiction turns into crime fiction. Or a tourist destination with dark ancient roots in Where the Gods Live.

What if the stories you grew up with were never just stories? In Life Ain't No Nursery Rhyme, author Montrel Powell reimagines beloved nursery rhymes and fairy tales through the lens of adulthood, transforming familiar childhood classics into powerful, relatable stories about real life. From The Ugly Duckling and The Three Little Pigs to Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Pinocchio, and more, each chapter explores the lessons hidden beneath the surface of the tales we've known for generations.

2082: The Weight of Memory. The Future in Ten Stories. The year is 2082. Humanity has survived the crises it once feared — but survival has come at a cost. Across ten cities, towns and villages worldwide, ordinary lives are caught in extraordinary systems. Memory can be copied, traded or...