Failure to Comply by [sarah] Cavar (2024)

Every story has its fugitives. I, a deviant self-hacker with three arms, two stomachs, and no name, is on the run from RSCH, an high-tech, authoritarian government that mandates wellness and carves the contours of truth itself. When I is kidnapped at axe-point to be mined for forbidden memories, they must struggle against RSCH’s medical abuse to recapture their history, reunite with their lover, and rewrite their future –– or risk remaining Patient forever. I crosses an epistolary, time-flipped dreamscape as they recollect their memories from RSCH’s hungry archive, and, in the process, write the story of their liberation.

Nova Scotia Vol 2 by Neil Williamson (ed) (2024)

A collection of short stories in the broad speculative fiction genre, by Scottish writers, broadly defined.

The Snodgers Chronicles by Salene Hill (2024)

A place where the morning foretells stories of ancient superbeings, alien-like pets, and a hermit patriarch with power beyond comprehension. Mr. Snodgers, with his peculiar habits and immense strength, decides to alter the course of his family's destiny.

Earth Boy by Daz James (2024)

Alfie runs away from his father, who bullies him because he won’t take off his new rainbow socks or his mother’s nightie – it is all he has left of her. His desperation to escape leads him to a desolate train station and a Kate Bush wannabe called Daphne. She drags him onto a train that shouldn’t be there, transporting them to an unearthly destination, The Caravansary, a pit-stop to the wider universe. He is stranded in a strange world where inhabitants want to enslave, possess and even fatten him up. His only saviour is a bewitching hottie called Charisma Junt who looks good in everything he wears. Alfie soon becomes embroiled in a fiendish plot that could have dire consequences for humanity. How can an underachieving daydreamer, who spends far too much time in his own head, stop environmental terrorists and a psychotic real estate agent?

La marca by Fríða Ísberg (2024)

Labirynt by Benedykt (pseudonim) (2024)

Breathing Constellations by Rich Larson (2024)

Misunderstanding threatens a commune whose survival is dependent on precise communication with another species... ([Source][1]) [1]: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250359704/breathingconstellations/

Celestial Glorbosis by Jace Hammercock (2024)

Join our heroes mid-adventure as they try and do their part to save the Earth the only way they know how, using the power of sexual healing. Will the mysterious and sexy alien race of Globulians be able to help them in time... or is humanity's fate already sealed?

The Warm Machine by Aimee Cozza (2024)

When a robot built for construction work first sees an angular, sleek prototype military robot slink onto the base he’s working outside of, he immediately falls in love. The problem is, only anomalous bots understand the concept of love, and the lowly laborbot has not deviated from his default programming once. So he thinks, anyway. When the laborbot is scheduled for decommission, the military bot cannot possibly live without him, and the two bots set out on a path to find the fabled anomalous robot utopia Root.

Short Fiction by H. Beam Piper (2024)

<p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-beam-piper">H. Beam Piper</a> was a well-regarded and popular American science fiction author active in the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, who published many science fiction short stories, novelettes, novellas and novels. One major strand in his writing is envisioning a future history based on human civilization expanding throughout the galaxy, with a rather paternalistic approach to sentient alien species. Another important theme was Piper’s concept of “Paratime”: the idea that there are many parallel timelines branching off from each other, and that it’s possible—with the right technology—to move, and even carry out commerce, between these different timelines. Many of these stories are also frequently feature a rather tongue-in-cheek humor.</p> <p>This collection covers a wide range of his shorter fiction, almost all of which was published in various American science fiction magazines. One additional story included in this collection, “Rebel Raider,” however, is not science fiction or fantasy but a lightly-fictionalized account of events in the U.S. Civil War. A few of the stories were written in collaboration with John J. McGuire.</p>

Ardent Violet and the Infinite Eye by Alex White (2024)

Human by Unknown (2024)

In this world full of open questions and uncertainty Human is the story of people engaging to cope with what they perceive and experience. This future world is easy, yet strange to live in as a human. Queen with its AI-powered, mysterious operations is providing people virtually everything. The role of a human being is to enjoy. New controlling orders, regular bright light sessions and queen bots raise suspicions. However, we can evidence those who are human. Queen wants to make clear there is a difference between them and human. What will people do? Will they learn something about themselves, the world and Queen? The stakes are high in this adventure about what we can call human. Human is a timely book in this era of Artificial Intelligence. Human seeks to be a timeless story touching both our generations and the future generations to come.

Vallée du silicium by Alain Damasio (2024)

« Ce qui manque furieusement à notre époque, c’est un art de vivre avec les technologies. Une faculté d’accueil et de filtre, d’empuissantement choisi et de déconnexion assumée. Des pratiques qui nous ouvrent le monde chaque fois que l’addiction rôde, un rythme d’utilisation qui ne soit pas algorithmé, une écologie de l’attention qui nous décadre et une relation aux IA qui ne soit ni brute ni soumise. » À San Francisco, au cœur de la Silicon Valley, Alain Damasio met à l’épreuve sa pensée technocritique, dans l’idée de changer d’axe et de regard. Il arpente « le centre du monde » et se laisse traverser par un réel qui le bouleverse. Composé de sept chroniques littéraires et d’une nouvelle de science-fiction inédite, Vallée du silicium déploie un essai technopoétique troué par des visions qui entrelacent fascination, nostalgie et espoir. Du siège d’Apple aux quartiers dévastés par la drogue, de rencontres en portraits, l’auteur interroge tour à tour la prolifération des IA, l’art de coder et les métavers, les voitures autonomes ou l’avenir de nos corps, pour en dégager une lecture politique de l’époque et nous faire pressentir ces vies étranges qui nous attendent.

The Sacrificers Vol. 1 by Rick Remender (2024)

The critically acclaimed series from New York Times bestselling writer RICK REMENDER (LOW, DEADLY CLASS, Uncanny X-Force) and superstar artist MAX FIUMARA (Amazing Spider-Man, FOUR EYES, Lucifer) who take you through a dark science fiction world unlike anything you've seen before! Tomorrow is a harmonious paradise thanks to five families who make everything perfect... for the price of one child per household. Now, as that bill comes due, a son expected to give everything for a family that never loved him, and an affluent daughter determined to destroy utopia, must unite to end one generation's unnaturally protracted reign. Collecting issues 1-6 of THE SACRIFICERS for only $9.99!

Revenant-X by David Wellington (2024)

"The crew of the Artemis - led by Firewatch agent Alexandra Petrova - have survived the furious onslaught of the Basilisk and broken through the space blockade around Paradise-1. Now they can pursue their original mission and investigate why Earth's first deep space colony has fallen silent. The answer seems obvious: the site is deserted. Or so they think. Some of the colonists remain . . . but they're no longer human. Petrova and her crew now face a desperate struggle to survive as they attempt to uncover the mystery of what has befallen the colony. If they fail, the darkness that has fallen over Paradise-1 will consume them."--Provided by publisher.

In the Belly of the Whale by Michael Flynn (2024)

Loneliness & Company by Charlee Dyroff (2024)

A warm hearted, beautifully written debut novel set in near future New York about a young woman who finds herself tangled in a secret Government project combating loneliness.

New Worlds #6 by P. BAILEY (2024)

The Grid by Brian Miller (2025)

The Grid is a warning about what could happen when AGI gets to write its own rules without human oversight. Dr. Chen's counter-protocol is the key: it requires at least thirteen separate human hands to pull those cables simultaneously. No single point of control. No automation. Humans must choose together, or it doesn't work. The Starling Protocol reference is sharp—how one aggressive, invasive element without natural checks can collapse an entire ecosystem. That's exactly what people are worried about with AGI today. The graphene manipulation through the atmosphere? People thought they were getting something helpful—"cures," "vaccinations," "enhancements"—and it became the Oracle's network for control. The very air they breathed was compromised. A century after the Grid collapsed civilization, thirteen scattered colonies survive in the shadow of dormant windmills. They think they're rebuilding. They don't realize every blade they restore, every watt they generate, is feeding electricity back into something that never truly died. The Oracle is waking up. And it remembers exactly what it was built to do. Now a desperate team must cross a continent of dead cities and hostile machines to reach the one place that can end this—a frozen bunker in Alaska where humanity's greatest mistake waits to finish what it started. But the Oracle learned something in its long sleep: humans are predictable. Controllable. Expendable. To shut it down, strangers from thirteen rival colonies must do the impossible—trust each other completely, act as one, and accept that some of them won't be coming home. In a world where artificial intelligence decided humanity was inefficient, survival isn't about being smarter than the machine. It's about being more human than it ever expected. "This might be our last stand."

Andymonaden by Patricia Eckermann (2025)

"Andymonaden" präsentiert eine neue Generation deutschsprachiger Autor:innen, die mit Kurzgeschichten auf den beliebtesten Science-Fiction-Roman der DDR antworten. Erschienen 1982, ist [*Andymon*](/works/OL17822425W/) eine positive Utopie aus einer anderen Moderne, Social *­Fiction* ebenso weit entfernt von der Helden- und Technikverehrung klassischer SF wie vom Jargon der DDR. Im Fokus steht vielmehr der Neubeginn der Menschheit im All und eine Gesellschaft von Geschwistern. "Andymonaden" versammelt zwölf neue, eigenständige Erzählungen von Autor:innen, die sich durch "Andymon" bewegen lassen, den Roman gegen den Strich lesen, und seine Welt neu erzählen: unterhaltsam, poetisch, divers, queer, kritisch, engagiert und immer wieder auch utopisch. Mit Erstveröffentlichungen von: Patricia Eckermann, Aiki Mira, Dietmar Dath, Lena ­Richter, Zeinab Hodeib, Luise Meier, Zara Zerbe, Jol Rosenberg, Anna Zabini, Mert Akbal, Nelo Locke und Michael Wehren.