Science Fiction

The stories told around campfires say the world that existed before 'The Wandering' was a beautiful place. A place with buildings taller than trees and massive cities home to millions. The stories about that world say a person could drink water without walking to the river and eat food without hunting in the forests. They never slept in the rain and they had machina that could do amazing things. B ...

Persecuted and Forced to Rebel against the Meritocracy Like most people on his world, Dominy worships the ground scientists walk on. He can’t wait to work with the brightest minds in the galaxy at Aspiria, the intellectual capital of civilization. Unfortunately, many of them are disappearing. Desperate to solve the mystery, Dominy recruits a band of fellow academic trainees. Together they set out ...

"Avatar the Last Airbender meets Ender's Game" The planet Ethos is at war with a mysterious enemy known as the Splicers. Their only successful defense is the Prime Initiative. All newborns with the compatible genetic code are taken from their families and injected with the Prime Stimulus. Those that survive the injection, develop extraordinary abilities and are conscripted into the military for tr ...

2121 Trilogy, A Dystopian Fantasy - A heartwarming story of surviving the unthinkable. This trilogy is written for Young Adults, New Adults, and All Age Adults who enjoy clean dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction sprinkled with a little horror. In the year 2121, their world changed forever when the government turned against them and left them for dead. Now, the few remaining survivors must band ...

Honor. Duty. Ritual. When she took the newborn prince to his homeland for a ritual, she never dreamed what she would bring back. The Vhalgenn is a warrior, bedmate, soulmate, companion, and friend. Trusted by the king. Hated by the queen. To save the newborn prince, the Vhalgenn will risk her position, her honor, and death itself to honor the Old Ways. But when she takes the newborn prince to the ...

Set in a future where clones are seen as second-class citizens and Normals are threatened by their own creation, Scarlet and her Mate Dagmar must fight for their own freedom and the survival. Scarlet was created to be the vessel for an aging actress's brain when she reached maturity. But when her creator dies before the transplant can take place, Scarlet is sold to a clone breeding farm, and escap ...

Three Short Stories That Will Make You Rethink Dying and Death

Beauty Bath: What draws her away from reason and into peril?

Double Entendre: Why would no one tell him how death works?

Mothballed: Will her music lead him to his fate?

There’s an ancient language encrypted into our DNA, which holds the secret to our humanity. Carved into a cave deep in the heart of southern Sudan is the story of this first language. Technology has advanced our civilization past its limits. Computers are breaking down and wars are breaking out throughout the world because mankind has forgotten how to communicate. Alexander and Rebekah, two ...

They call it simply "the object." It sits at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, waiting. Waiting . . . for what? An American research ship disappears in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea only to reappear a few days later. When a special U.S. Coast Guard unit boards the vessel, they find it deserted, its power grid wrecked, two bombs waiting to explode, and an even darker secret hidden below her decks. A few m ...

Shohn has one mission: live a lie-filled life undercover. She permits herself no family ties and few friends. Meeting Joe makes her rethink her rule of isolation. When Joe seeks help to locate his birth mother, he hires Shohn. As their unexpected friendship deepens into more, each mystery they solve reveals yet another hidden layer. The truth they seek could immobilize interstellar commerce in the ...

As the Earth died out from worsening climate change and heightened global conflicts, so did humanity, along with everything that once defined Earth as the only planet in the universe known to harbor life. All life known to exist to man died out. Or, at least, it was assumed to by every member of the human race.

Thirty years after the roughly one hundred million humans still alive on Ear ...

It was supposed to help her—not turn her into a monster. Now, Lena’s stuck with this cybernetic arm, and her friends are terrified of her. And maybe they should be. The arm’s artificial intelligence takes Lena’s thoughts to the extreme. It acts when she doesn’t tell it to, even when she’s asleep. Ever since she got the new limb, she’s been sleepwalking and waking in odd places. To Lena, this is ju ...

It was supposed to be his first mission, but it would change Rain’s life forever. He was an untested executive officer, a former hotshot ace pilot veteran from the most recent war. Commanding a ship was all new to him. His first mission was supposed to just be a short test of an experimental new drive for the fleet’s newest flagship. Then fate, or an unknown hand, changed the game. An unexpected m ...

Toemeka wants peace . . . but Condor, the universes most powerful world-conqueror, wants her dead.

Toemeka resigns as a Coalition operative during an interplanetary war, to live peacefully with her warrior-priest husband, Michio. Her plans are shattered when shes abducted by one of Condors sorcerers, whos interested in twisting her unique abilities to increase his own dark pow ...

What if the enemy you hate is your only salvation? Marooned on a planet with no one but Six, a human who guarded him in exile, the immortal king Pietas must face the ordeal of survival. Imprisonment transformed him from superman to a man who cannot even feed himself. But healing, and the eventual rescue his people, depends upon the one thing Pietas swore did not exist—the honor of a human.

Some of us predicted it! There must be something more out there. An intelligent species, technologically advanced. We gaze up into the night sky — that small star, really just a tiny yellow sun. There you are, the third planet! We can see you. Can you see us? We've been watching you. Finally, a worthy foe! Henry McAndrews' enlivening new YA science fiction trilogy. Get ready for a vibrant onslaugh ...

Music and magic. Steampunky science. The Dissolution is coming.

Eighteen year old recluse Sam van Oen lives with his aunt, takes online college courses, works in technical support, and tries not to remember the freak storm that killed his parents ten years ago.

But anxiety and reclusion bring up memories he doesn’t want. Just as Sam gathers courage to send in ...

Humans believe First Contact will happen when extraterrestrials visit earth, or when humans voyage into space. But…what if they’re wrong? As a no-nonsense structural engineer who takes the world for granted and gives little to nothing of himself to others, Tristan prefers the distance his life provides. Until a one chance meeting with the Traveler changes everything. Now Tristan has some hard less ...

Would you embrace darkness to save your child? House Dobromil has stood against the emperor since the beginning. For generations, they have defied tyrannical edicts and stood up for donai and humans. For decades, war has crept ever closer and now, Syteria, a rebellious human woman Darien has chosen to be his future queen may be the spark that sets the Imperium to flame. When Syteria crosses paths ...

After a devastating war forced humans to rely on synths for survival, the two have learned to coexist peacefully. Until now... When detective Dhata Mays is called in to investigate a homicide, what he uncovers threatens the serenity of this futuristic society. The gruesome murder means only one thing: someone is ready to incite another war. Now, it's up to Dhata to ensure that the truth stays hidd ...

The Will To Survive Is Mankind's Greatest Weapon" "They lived through an interplanetary war; now they must survive the aftermath." In the last interplanetary war a bio-weapon killed or sterilized all the males on Vensoog. To keep the colony alive, the Matchmaker Program finds ex-soldiers like Zack Jackson, a hard-as-nails ex-recon soldier who no longer has a home planet, and offer him a new home o ...

If you're fighting immortals who always get back up, you'd better have a way to do the same thing. Otherwise, it's lights out... When you're a soldier genetically enhanced to the point of near immortality and you fight a mortal soldier resurrected with the pilfered blood of your people, friendship never enters the equation. But what if the enemy you despise holds the key to your salvation?

No one knows how human genetics evolved to create Mirrors. No one knows how the evidence of a criminal's last horrendous act can be confirmed in a single gaze of a child's silvered eyes. But just because science can't explain something doesn't mean it can't be used, and this gift is simply too valuable to ignore. Twins Thomas and Ashley Ross have grown up knowing they would be used as Mirrors for ...

Truth and lies.

Captain Jamie Callahan knows the Metahuman Defense Force frowns on fraternization. For once in his life, he’s breaking all the rules. Having Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan on his team and in his bed is worth the risk of being found out. When a mission comes down requiring Alpha Team to go undercover in order to infiltrate a criminal alliance, Jamie knows it w ...

One of Case City's most skilled assassins, Jackson Cole is a wanted man. After annihilating his latest target, he quickly learns the prominent man's identity. Now, a perilous enemy seeks revenge, and rival guilds look to take advantage of his vulnerability. For Jackson, it's become kill or be killed, but will a steady aim be enough to take on the entire city?

A Mafia conspiracy. A female undercover cop. A honed and fit suspect - international boxer and billionaire playboy, Freddie La Salle. Interpol cop, Anna Leyton, spirals down into a hopeless vortex of sexual and emotional turmoil as she fights to keep her professional cool in her latest assignment. When the charismatic Freddie turns on his charm and seduces her, passion takes control. The acti ...

ONE RECKLESS DECISION AND NOW HE MUST FACE A SINISTER WORLD CONQUEROR IN BATTLE. . . During a time of interplanetary war, Baymond escaped heartbreak by joining the galactic air fleet. Now he faces death daily while living on a military space station far from his home planet. His latest assignment is to travel to a war-torn planet on a reconnaissance mission. Meanwhile, Princess Fawniteen is ex ...

24 October 2114: the day that shocked the world. Young diplomat Cory Wilson narrowly escapes death in the assassination of President Sirkonen. No one claims responsibility but there is no doubt that the attack is extraterrestrial. Cory was meant to start work as a representative to Gamra, the alien organisation that governs the FTL transport network, but now his new job may well be scrapped in ang ...

They hunted her mother. They abducted her father. If Grace can’t uncover the secret of her family’s alien past, will she be next?

“New favorite series for YA readers!” —San Francisco Book Review

Grace is unique. She tries not to draw attention, but most teens don’t have naturally green hair, live in a van, and change schools every couple of months. When people around ...

A 500,000-mile-long asteroid belt covers the earth. Its aftermath leaves the few survivors to question an existence after the end. TJ Stocker, one of NASA's top researchers, is one of the "lucky" ones assigned to the White House's underground bunker. Communications are cut off as civilizations are destroyed. Tragedy compounds when Stocker's warnings are not in line with the President's bravado. ...

Chimera Island. For more than a century, the tiny atoll has been the subject of legend and rumors. Mysterious sightings. Strange deaths. Unexplained disappearances. A transport plane sent to Chimera to evacuate frightened scientists from a climate research station on the island disappears, along with a Chinese spy ship prowling nearby waters. The U.S. Coast Guard sends its most secret team to inve ...

Take a trip through the imaginations of 18 visionary writers as they explore the future of trucking in this science fiction anthology. The speculative stories about rogue self-driving trucks, wormhole hauls through spacetime, defiant Artificial Intelligences, cyborg drivers, the eternal loneliness of life on the road, and more will appeal to truckers and science fiction fans alike. The book is the ...

An anthology featuring twenty new science fiction stories for Sci-Fi lovers written by fourteen authors in four countries. Members of the Science Fiction Novelists Facebook group, like the two professional editors, each has a deep love for science fiction. Prepare for adventurous wonder. Bits of terror Aliens Twisted reality Dystopian dust Whispers of fantasy, and Hard science. Gun play? Yes, ther ...

A band of misfits team up as mercenaries, then find a family in each other.

In a galaxy full of conflict and magic, the rocky red planet of Rakuur inches closer to civil war. Amidst the turmoil brewing on their homeworld, a disgraced PAX knight, his bright-eyed armiger, an urchin from the megacity slums, and a wanderer searching for his family join forces to forge their destinies togeth ...

Protests in front of an embassy aren't what they seem... In the dark primal jungles of the Congo River basin, something is ravaging the local population. When protests turn violent in front of the US Embassy Kinshasa, only the foreign policy experts paid attention. Civil war erupts and people rip each other apart in the streets of the African capital. In an effort to avert disaster and preserve it ...

Physics isn't easy. Rule number one should always be "Don’t destroy the world", but sometimes science doesn't follow the rules. An experiment gone wrong means the Earth might only have days left. The planet is being torn apart by an invisible and deadly... something. Physicist Mia Green must get home to England, from a devastated Paris, to find her family and maybe, just maybe, stop the experiment ...

As a Better, an enhanced human, Alitus can touch no one -- his pheromones are addictive. He must touch no one. But how long can he deny his heart? Ordered by the Empress to find out if the lover of a friend is having an affair, Alitus investigates. As Minister of Imperial Intelligence, Alitus has access to every camera and remote in the empire. Which is a problem, because Wulf's affair is with Al ...

Book 2

John and Lena are hoping for some downtime after their exciting adventure to save the alien disk, named KAD. As they plan their well-deserved holiday, a group of hostile aliens bursts in on the two, imprisoning them and transporting them to a totally different planet. KAD is nowhere to be seen, and they are left to deal with these threatening and seemingly unpredictable captors o ...

In the dusty ruins of the world, three groups exist: the Sovereign, the Fortis, and the Outliers. Within their walled city, exclusive access to the only remaining technology gives the Sovereign an advantage that seems impossible to beat. In exchange for meager scraps and free reign outside the walls, they use the brawn of the Fortis to their advantage while the Outliers struggle to survive. Living ...

College freshman Estelle Wright has it all: a superpower, a flying horse, and a hunky boyfriend. All is threatened when her old enemy swears revenge, ruthless killers target Atalanta, and Toby is under pressure to dump her. But, Estelle’s knack of finding trouble scuttles his plans. Their lives are at stake and they face agonizing decisions. The wrong choice will lead to disaster. If you enj ...

"The only thing in this world you can truly control is yourself." Janey Sinclair's ability to teleport has always been a mystery to her. She tried for years to ignore it, but when tragedy shatters her life, Janey's anger consumes her. She hones her fighting skills, steals a prototype suit of military body armor, and takes to the streets of Atlanta, venting her rage as the masked vigilante dubbed " ...

For God School's latest graduate, the adventure continues...

Bernie is a young god who fixes broken universes for a living.  Unfortunately, the universe he's working on is in the middle of a civil war caused by Ashok, a murderous wizard determined to control the lucrative pepper trade. 

Bernie's boss urges him to ...

After finagling a job on board an outer space cruise ship, Sylvia Stryker is ready to explore all that outer space has to offer. With a private room in the staff quarters, her robot cat by her side, and the responsibilities of uniform management, she couldn't be more thrilled--until she discovers the second navigation officer dead in the inventory closet. Neptune, the head of ship security, finds ...

They have awoken as far away from home as it ever gets…

Laura and Jason Sinclair did not want to be transported from Earth, but their alien hosts have plans to take them even further beyond their comfort zone.

They are on a space station, orbiting a mysterious planet in a strange new galaxy. And they must battle for the future of a group of humans who are being ...

It's the year 2268 in the Kingdom of Canard. Jason has earned enough rewards to secure a beautiful girlfriend and lavish lifestyle. Until his unforgivable mistake. Now they’re trying to kill him. In a world where a person’s worth is measured by points and evil lurks around every corner, who will win the game of survival?

Chamberlain is everything teenager Charlie Anderson thought it would be when he moved there from the city in 1957—a quaint and cozy upstate New York town where time moves slowly. But that’s all about to change. Charlie finds his elderly and wealthy newspaper customer, Mr. Grazione, on the brink of death. Just before he passes, he shares a secret with Charlie. Grazione was part of a group of at ...

When London comes to a standstill, terror strikes ... Introvert postman Stanley "Mac" McCready spends his days delivering parcels and dreaming of a life together with his alluring neighbour, Maria Alejandro. But when otherworldly lights dominate the skies above Central London and mysterious objects rain death down on the city, Mac and Maria soon find themselves running for their lives ... A must f ...

Evolution threatens magic. Ebony is the key to reversing the flaw that weakens all ofhumankind. It's her life or war. -- \"A studiously chilling post-apocalyptic tale.\" --Kirkus Review (for Fortitude Rising) -- Ebony has spent her entire life isolated on an island institution run by her father, Dr. Hunter. She's unaware of the war brewing in the city between the magical and non-magical. Her fathe ...

The oceans are dying. In an effort to provide sustainable tuna stocks, genetically engineered humans have been reconfigured to live at sea, using dolphins to herd large tuna schools. Olga is one of these shepherds. Independent fisherman are having a hard time catching fish and Toivo is among the best because he has a pair of dolphins that he talks to and they help locate fish for him. Troubles eru ...

They came as saviors to a deteriorating Earth. Julip Torne questions whether there is more to life beyond the barren dirt, acidic seas, and toxstorms her people work and die in. Living in poverty on the withering Greenland Human Reservation, she wonders if the alien Mezna goddesses are truly as holy as the temple preaches. Meanwhile, Jakkattu prisoner Sabaal suffers constant torture and heinous me ...

If you had the power to genetically alter yourself, would you? Even if it meant others died under the knife for your pursuit of perfection? Alien First Contact meets Adventure Sci-Fi as Finn, Zuri, Noah and Corporal Smith (deceased) face the most horrifying alien of all - humans. After arriving on Togalaau Vai full of hope, they find a paradise accessing their planetary SeedShip, and on first ...

A fourteen-year-old bar owner, a cagey fugitive, and a badass monkey. When magical mayhem meets bloody brawls, can they survive the violent darkness?

Jack wouldn’t trade his brutal life for anything. Hardened by the merciless nature of war, he’s carved a dangerous niche running a post-apoc saloon frequented by cybernetically enhanced mercenaries. But the kid's cocky confidence gets sh ...

Breakups are hard, but when your ex is immortal—and your king—how do you guard your heart? Luc's immortal ex allows no lifetime to pass without trying to win him back. That's not happening, but despite Pietas being the jealous sort and manipulative, he's also the king. As his General, Luc can't simply walk away. So when summoned for a "simple mission" of finding a lost child, he suspects it cover ...

They say you can’t go home again, but what if it is the only way to truly be free? Rap solves problems large and small. He solved them when he was human, when he was a robot, and now that he’s mostly human again, he’s still solving problems—though eliminating the threat from his old Master is a biggie. He’ll need his pet, Snake, and his new friend, Nelson, the AI inside his head. And then there’s ...

The Anunnaki and Human worlds collide In this epic alien first contact saga, they came to Mars to search for life...Something else found them. This is the story of ancient aliens, three astronauts, and one cosmonaut, and what happened the day the Anunnaki world and the modern human world collided on a distant planet. Jon Carson, the American military man, Doug “Digger” Johnson, The American archae ...

Blurb: What if ISIS had biological weapons? This nightmare scenario was published in Germs of War first in 1999, which predicted 9/11. A fast-paced amalgamation of science, international intrigue with rogue CIA agents battling terrorists, and politics. And a lonely student who can thwart it all. Will she be able to?

Trust no one ... not even yourself. When a mysterious monster storm reduces Emily's idyllic family farm to rubble, Emily embarks on a perilous road trip to find her family. Along the way, details unravel about a nefarious shadow organization using government resources to manipulate the weather via electromagnetic waves. Soon the truth about her world and her family threatens to extinguish her inno ...

After Mike goes through a gut-wrenching betrayal by his fiancée, he finds himself in what he thinks might be the afterlife. But this is no heaven. The gods made a mistake and created another Earth in a parallel universe, putting both universes in peril. They need someone from his planet to destroy the alternate, and Mike is randomly selected for the job. Trapped in an impossible choice, Mike accep ...

Earth is at peace…then an alien infection changes everything. An engineer creates a revolutionary engine to launch the world's hope for salvation. A crew of Earth’s top talent face never-before-seen adversity as they search for a cure for humanity. Earth had achieved a semi-utopia until aliens destroyed the peace that took decades for hacker revolutionaries to build. After a bizarre robot occupati ...

The not-so-distant future of 2040 is populated mostly by millennials and the robots to whom humanity has delegated menial labor. The government is all-powerful and all-intrusive; privacy is a thing of the past. Optimal, a biogenetics company, bucks the system with its hidden lab, but the founder’s good intentions have given way to dangerous experimentation. Optimal offers a “miracle” serum that ca ...

For fans of Maze Runner, Hunger Games and Percy Jackson comes an award-winning story of friendship, courage and a battle for humanity. MOVIE RIGHTS OPTIONED.

 

The second wave is unleashed. The world is forced to its knees.

Two strains of a devastating pathogen infect population centers around the globe. From mega-cities to remo ...

Genetic Engineering. Intrigue. Space Exploration. Perfect for fans of Enders Game, Brave New World, and Divergent. Earth is dying, circling the drain on life support. The future of the human race depends on finding a new homeworld, but they’re running out of time. Parasitic insects are systematically killing the best scientific minds but no one knows why. Mable Wilkinson is the last hope to figure ...

The legendary “Clipper,” Jackson Cole, is tasked with a new role as a handler for the Salazar guild. But when a hacker threatens to make his connection with the mayor public, Jackson must look outside his guild for help. Will his weapons and skills be enough, or will this be the job that sends him over the edge?

Cinta is a faithful older brother in an idyllic jungle, struggling to protect his little sister from loneliness and the occasional sabertoothed cat—when the humans return to his continent. Lem Benzaran is a brand-new teen on her first exploratory mission to an abandoned spaceship—when she finds herself stranded with a shadowy ancient hunger. Jei Bereens is a former child captive on a pilgrim ...

One young woman challenges the secret rulers of the galaxy and finds an impossible love. Young empath, Violet Hunter, dreams of exploring exotic planets as a Grand Master’s pawn. Breaks in the teleportal network threaten countless lives, and suspicions point to the twelve Grand Masters. Violet must penetrate their curtain of secrecy to identify the culprit. Her challenges escalate when she meets ...

The year is 2040 and Eric Ryan hates technology. In an era where automated systems and A.I. robots perform most work obligations, scores of humans have lost their societal value. As these displaced people struggle with their new reality, Eric sympathizes with their hardship. Once a neuropsychologist, his career ended when medical tech pushed him into obsolescence. Now a community therapist, he spe ...

Doctor Who meets Outlander in this fast-paced time-travel adventure! Once again, Gwyn must save history. To do so, she must kill a man. Not just any man – Emperor Domitian is a feared tyrant, paranoid of plots and assassins. Can Gwyn find the plotters and help them succeed, or will she be betrayed herself? Also is getting a date in Ancient Rome weird, or kinda cool in a history nerd way? Mic ...

Gwyn is just getting the hang of her time-travelling skills when her confidence takes her too far. She saves the wrong person and now the whole timeline is off track. Now she has to manipulate one of the most dangerous people in all of Europe, Cesare Borgia, son of the corrupt Pope Alexander VI, as the French threaten to invade Italy. With Machiavelli as a bail lawyer, and Da Vinci hanging out ...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you were the alien that makes First Contact? And what if the very people you’ve come to meet are on another alien’s menu? Being eaten alive? Alien First Contact meets Adventure Sci-Fi as the reserves face their most terrifying opponent yet. After landing on a devastated, human-seeded planet for the first time, they are thrown immediately into an interspe ...

“An intriguing mixture of Fantasy and Science Fiction.” Nominated in the Sword & Sorcery Category in the 2019 EFFYs! In a world where Magic and Technology collide, an Amnesiac Merc and a Sorceress hiding deadly secrets must team up to defy the most powerful wizards of Rulari. When Rebecca, a Magi born into a land where her talents mean slavery or death, meets Andre, an innocent man on the ru ...

Teen superhero, Starrella, and her flying horse combat vicious killers in the skies of Atalanta. The quiet summer before her freshman year turns frighteningly weird after Estelle Wright trespasses onto an Army base. Blown into the air and knocked unconscious, she wakes with a nascent superpower. Not to mention a winged horse with a snarky attitude and a mind of her own. Back home in Atalanta, a se ...

Welcome to the Cassidyverse, a rich tapestry of tales from the renowned Cassidy Chronicles where the boundless expanse of space serves as the backdrop for extraordinary adventures and unexpected journeys. Embark on a thrilling odyssey alongside Kendra Cassidy, a visionary determined to propel humanity towards the stars, as she and her devoted crew navigate the challenges of forging the Terran F ...

This could happen to anyone. Maybe it already has. SHAKER is an allegorical tale about a man who is abducted and enslaved to fight for an alien warlord on a planet ravaged by incessant warfare. Michael Taylor is an ordinary man with an ordinary life. One day, he wakes up to find himself a prisoner on a mysterious ship with more than forty strangers, and none of them have any recollection of how th ...

When her creator dies before the transplant can take place, Scarlet is sold to a clone breeding farm, and only narrowly escapes a terrible fate to rejoin her mate Dagmar and his band of ‘wild’ clones. Desperate for a different future, Scarlet joins her mate Dagmar and his band of 'Wild' Clones, who have rebelled against their masters’ and are trying to build their own society. But when their lea ...

If you were eighteen hundred light years from Earth, how far would you go for that one chance to get home? Adventure Sci-Fi meets Alien First Contact as the British Army Reserve squad uses the power of ancient alien technology to find the way home in this all action, brilliantly paced and character driven sci-fi novel. After the world-shattering events of Hostile Contact, Finn’s squad leave Earth ...

Journey aboard a bus like no other, where every passenger is both unique and unsettlingly identical. As Scout and their sisters speed toward an uncertain future, they grapple with a horrifying legacy. 'Model Organisms' takes you on a gripping ride through a world where science, myth, and reality blur, forcing you to question the very fabric of identity. Prepare for a story that challenges not just ...

Society has turned on its head. The ‘free’ hide behind fortifications and the ‘imprisoned’ roam the wild, barren land beyond. Finbarl-apcula guards the town of Athenia, an oasis in a parched, sparsely populated world. He keeps the citizens safe, ensures those who break the draconian laws lose their freedom, and protects what he prizes above all else: civilisation. When Finbarl is made to lie to ...