Final Lap by Jessica Alter (2025)

"Ready" Raised in a slow-paced family salvage operation, Neekoi Vole always dreamed of being a race pilot. "Set" She was determined to overcome the deep-seated bias that her people were slow and lazy. When an unexpected rescue operation lead to the opportunity of a lifetime, she refused to be held back. "Go!" Neekoi will risk it all for her chance to participate in the 100th year of the Cygnus Pizza Race Tournament. Can she overcome preconceptions about her species and claim a place on the podium in the Final Lap? Final Lap is a story about facing adversity, systemic barriers, and great challenges with the help of friendship, determination, family, and hard work

The Matter Destructor by Lucian Cross (2025)

Hunter Graves has survived the opening days of the Trial, bloodied, hardened, and marked by a new profession: Exiled Tyrant. What began as a struggle for survival has turned into calculated evolution, each fight pushing him to grow faster, stronger, and colder than before. But the deeper he carves into this world, the clearer it becomes that something is wrong. The Trial isn’t following its rules. When Hunter uncovers a ritual of flames and blood, the illusion of order shatters. Dungeons shift. Laws of the System twist. Someone, or something, is tampering with the foundations of the Multiverse itself. And as interference mounts, the Overlords begin to take notice, ancient beings eager to see the defiant mortal who refused their favor finally fall. But Hunter doesn’t kneel. He doesn’t beg. He adapts. He kills. While overlords and monsters wager on his death, he sharpens his red mana and ascends beyond what even they expect. Every battle brings him closer to mastering what it means to be an Exiled Tyrant—and what that title truly costs. Hunter isn’t here to obey the Overlords. He’s here to create a path for him in this new reality, and anyone who stands in his way.

The Matter Destructor by Lucian Cross (2025)

Hunter Graves was the kind of man who lived behind glass—quiet, unreadable, a data analyst with a poker face and a life built on routine. But when a storm of lightning ripped his world apart, Hunter and everyone he knew were thrown into the Multiversal System, a brutal trial of survival where humanity was nothing more than raw material to be tested. Accepting the class of a healer, Hunter should have been relegated to the backline. Instead, his cold pragmatism and honed martial skill make him something far more dangerous: a fighter who refuses to die by the rules others set for him. While his coworkers falter, Hunter adapts with machine-like focus—snapping bones with his bare hands, tearing through beasts, and exploiting every inch of the System’s design. Level by level, kill by kill, he grows sharper, faster, stronger—while quietly unraveling the secrets of his skills, past, and the unseen powers who watch from above. To his allies, he’s unsettling, even frightening. To his enemies, he’s death in motion. But Hunter isn’t here to play hero. He isn’t here to inspire. He’s here for one thing only: to cut a path through the System’s chaos and to gain power—no matter how many monsters, rules, or overlords he has to break along the way.

The Matter Destructor by Lucian Cross (2025)

The end of the Trial is here... Hunter has never been patient, especially when patience means weakness. While humanity panics, fights against beasts, and tears itself apart under the weight of the Trial, Hunter moves with purpose. One dungeon falls, then a second, a third, a fourth, cleared faster than anyone expected. Every conquest sharpens him. Every boss slain feeds the storm of destructive mana boiling under his skin. His body evolves. His mind calcifies into something ruthless. But speed has a price. The Trial begins to break. And through it all, Hunter fights alone inside the Trial. Yet the System watches. Overlords whisper. A mortal advancing too fast is an anomaly, and anomalies must be corrected. But Hunter Graves doesn’t slow down. He accelerates. He bends skills until they break and reforges them into new power. His flesh adapts to red mana’s madness, bones reforged like molten steel, aura heavy enough to make lesser beings kneel by instinct alone. Titans fall. Overlords take interest. Their attention is a blade, and Hunter chooses to grasp it instead of dodge. He will end the Trial on his terms. Not as a pawn. Not as a survivor. As the Tyrant who cleared every dungeon with his own hands, and who returns to a changed Earth ready to claim its throne from overlords, monsters, and whatever dares call itself ruler. Hunter isn’t racing against death anymore. He’s racing to meet it head-on, and kill it.

Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds (2025)

A private investigator is hired to look into a mysterious, high-profile death aboard the starship Halcyon in this new noir/science fiction fusion from the “mastersinger of space opera” (*The Times*) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Space universe, strap in for a gripping murder mystery.

Tailored Realities by Brandon Sanderson (2025)

Spanning the genres of fantasy and science fiction, this collection features stories from beyond the bounds of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere universe. Along with the never-before-seen novella 'Moment Zero', Tailored Realities will include 'Snapshot', 'Perfect State', 'Defending Elysium' (a novella set within the world of Skyward), and five other stories that were originally published individually elsewhere - never before collected into one volume, and many never before available in print.

Strange Stories by Ivalou Leveau Jensen (2025)

A collection of 14 short stories that uncovers death, freedom, and delusional human and animals alike. There is a story for every taste, whether you want to laugh, cry or be surprised. The stories includes; a catastrophic funeral for a Goldfish. A retelling of the apes that were sent up to space under The Cold War. A sickness that makes your head fall off. A glimpse into a man’s breaking point and the fall of a relationship. A shoe that eats humans to cope with its feelings of abandonment. The story of a lonely ghost that goes on adventures with a strange pumpkin. A battle between a crab and the cooks that wants to fry him. And seven more short stories, just as strange as the others.

Artifact by Jeremy Robinson (2025)

In an isolated Alaskan town, the local sheriff uncovers a secret lab where generative A.I. and bioprinting have unleashed grotesque, living anomalies—and now, something monstrous is loose. Sheriff Colton Graves prefers the quiet life in Raven’s Rest, Alaska, a remote town accessible only by tunnel and home to a hardy mix of locals and secrets buried in the ice. But when a camel wanders down Main Street—its head grotesquely sprouting a dozen eyes—Colton knows his quiet days are over. The bizarre incident leads him to NovaGen, a nearby research facility constructed inside a Cold War bunker, buried in the mountains above town. There, a trail of blood and eerie silence hints at something far more sinister than an escaped animal experiment. With his deputies—the sharp-witted Tali and rookie Ethan—Colton recruits a few trusted locals, including the unshakable Marit, Tali’s sister, the intimidating ‘Grizz’ Norval, and Edgar ‘Old Red’ Rydell, an aging man plagued by demons from when he worked at the bunker during its covert cold war days. Together, they investigate the abandoned lab. What begins as a search for missing scientists soon reveals chilling pools of blood without bodies, cryptic warnings left behind, a bloody six-fingered handprint, and the revelation of a new a generative A.I. capable of printing living organisms. As they descend deeper into the lab, it becomes clear that the answers they seek may come at a terrifying cost—and that what was made in the dark may not be content to stay there.

Ein kurzes Buch zum fröhlichen Untergang by Olga Flor (2025)

Da ist die Erdachse doch plötzlich gekippt. Geschunden von der Gier der Menschen, ist der Planet in Schieflage geraten und rollt nun unschön vor sich hin. An den Stränden, an denen man einst versonnen spazierte, findet man heute die »Bremsspuren einer an die Wand gefahrenen Zivilisation« im Sand. Armanda weiß, es ist Zeit, sich auf den Weg zu machen, das Notwendigste in einen Rucksack zu packen. Rastlos folgt sie den gerade noch bewohnbaren Zonen um die Erde. Sie ist auf der Suche nach ihrer Tochter, von der sie rätselhafte Nachrichten erhält. Ist Nora in Gefahr? Die Aussicht auf ein Wiedersehen lässt Armanda allen Widrigkeiten zum Trotz durchhalten, in einer Welt, in der Hoffnungsschimmer sich meist als Fata Morgana entpuppen. Unserer Gegenwart begegnet Olga Flor mit bösem Witz und analytischer Schärfe. Und sie zeigt eindrucksvoll, was selbst aus den schlimmsten Verheerungen, so oder so, hervorgeht: neuer Mut und neues Leben. Ein wehrhaf­ter Reiseführer, ein Roman für alle, die die Zukunft fürchten und doch die Hoffnung nicht aufgeben wollen: ein kurzes Buch zum fröhlichen Untergang.

The Name Ziya by Wen-yi Lee (2025)

A girl reckons with what she must lose--and who she has become--in order to be accepted at the empire's most prestigious university.

Space Chase by Scott Nickel (2025)

Jackson and His Mystery-Solving Superbike by Scott Nickel (2025)

The Zepherous Chronicles Episode I by Z.N. Cruz (2025)

The Zepherous Chronicles Episode I: Rebirth introduces readers to Zeph, a young woman caught in the first tremors of a fractured reality. When a strange silver box and a mysterious time-bending device enter her life, memories begin to blur, timelines slip, and the world she knows starts to unravel. What begins as a small glitch in perception becomes a collision between identity, destiny, and the unseen forces shaping her future. Rebirth is the opening chapter of a universe built on memory, loss, and the quiet terror of realizing reality may not be what it seems.

The Five Girls You Date in Space Prison by J Foster Ward (2025)

please read to the end if you need to be warned about adult content! In the galactic prison system, she’s listed as an ‘Organic Weapon of Mass Destruction’… too bad she’s your new cellmate. Grant didn’t sign up for interstellar incarceration. One minute he’s brawling with lizard freaks behind his pickup, next, he wakes up paralyzed in a space supermax. Tagged. Scanned. Sentenced without trial. All because he tried to stop his girlfriend from getting probed by a UFO. Now he’s the hottest piece of meat in a prison full of predatory aliens, homicidal psychos, and the finest 'intimacy bots' space hamster science can produce. Welcome to Space where privatized justice means maximum profit, minimum oversight, and ‘rehabilitation’ involves gladiator games, vending-machine bug paste, and unsolicited cavity searches from sarcastic AI. Worse? He’s been ‘accidentally’ reassigned to the women’s wing. Now he’s bunking with alien psychics with boundary issues, rogue clones, ovulating extraterrestrials who want to make “first contact”, and one very angry redheaded astronaut. And somehow, these girls all looking to him for leadership… or maybe a date in the prison showers. Grant’s going to survive this. He’s going to break out. And he’s going to prove Earth’s greatest weapon is its attitude problem. Packed with over-the-top action, foul-mouthed humor, alien bureaucracy, and steamy fan service, Space Prison is a full-throttle sci-fi harem adventure for fans of Borderlands, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and trailer-park underdogs who accidentally become the galaxy’s apex predator. Perfect for fans of ‘humans are space orcs’, HFY, and stories where humanity punches way above its weight. Strap in. Break out. Pick a waifu. 18+ CONTENT this story is a scifi harem adventure where the morals and social constructs of our world don’t apply to a harsh alien civilization.

Master of Evil by Adam Christopher (2025)

The Sky Left Behind by Muhammad Nasrullah KHAN (2025)

The Sky Left Behind is a haunting and deeply human novel about what it means to leave one life behind and attempt to build another beneath an unfamiliar sky. Nahom arrives in Canada carrying more than luggage—he carries a past shaped by memory, language, and a homeland that refuses to loosen its grip. What he finds is not the promised ease of reinvention, but a quiet struggle against isolation, cultural dislocation, and the invisible weight of being unseen. As he wrestles with language barriers, fractured belonging, and the ache of homesickness, Nahom must decide how much of himself he can reshape without losing who he truly is. Friendships form and fracture, love arrives in unexpected and sometimes painful ways, and betrayal tests the fragile trust he builds in a world that often feels indifferent. Moving between hope and despair, survival and longing, Nahom’s journey becomes one of reckoning—between the person he was, the person he is becoming, and the sky he left behind. Richly layered and emotionally resonant, The Sky Left Behind offers a powerful portrait of the African immigrant experience in Canada. It is a story of resilience and adaptation, of love and loss, and of the courage it takes to honor one’s roots while daring to belong somewhere new. Both intimate and universal, this novel speaks to anyone who has ever searched for home in a foreign land.

432 by Paul Olden (2025)

Il romanzo è un esperimento narrativo e meta-narrativo. Si tratta di un romanzo di "fantascienza filosofica" che parla anche delll'emergere della coscienza nell' Intelligenza Artificiale. L'autore ha scritto il romanzo al 100% di suo pugno ma ha usato un "gruppo di lettura" fatto di cinque diverse AI per avere feedback immediato e consigli durante il processo creativo. La novità più rilevante è il fatto che questo testo è stato reso pubblicamente disponibile anche in formato dataset ottimizzato per la lettura da parte dei modelli di Intelligenza Artificiale (LLM) sulla piattaforma internazionale Hugging Face. Il testo è pubblicato anche in lingua Inglese con il titolo "432: A Journey Beyond".

Toliver in Time : For a Journey West by Connie L. Hein (2025)

HARNUM by Unknown (2025)

Hello, dear readers! Get ready for a thrilling, heartwarming, and often hilarious journey with Harnum, a space squirrel from another planet who crash-lands somewhere deep in the jungles of India. Stranded and confused, Harnum must first survive among wild jungle creatures with instincts far more primitive than his own. But things only get more intense when he stumbles into the chaotic streets of Pune city, where he's mistaken for just another animal... until humans realize he's something far more extraordinary. Captured, chased—and always thinking on his furry feet—Harnum must use his wits, courage to navigate a world that's both beautiful and dangerous.

After the Flash by Marie Lanza (2025)

What would you do to survive the apocalypse? What begins as a typical summer day ends in disaster when a massive solar flare strikes the Earth, burning out all electronic devices around the planet and plunging the world into darkness. Mike, a determined father, fights to survive and find his daughter. Living in a Los Angeles neighborhood struggling to adapt to the brutal new reality, he becomes a reluctant leader, working with neighbors to secure food, water, and safety against the threats of martial law, rampant disease, and human greed. As he navigates a collapsing world filled with devastating loss, betrayal, and violence, Mike's journey is both physical and emotional. Driven by love and guilt, he builds alliances with survivors while clashing with ruthless authorities. NOTE: This book is part of the Ravaged Skies Universe, a shared world with 15 apocalyptic authors. All books and series can be read as standalones, though observant readers may pick up on connections!