The first thing she learnt was her name, Alanka Jangkarbumi. She was a famous student and cadet nicknamed The Maidengard, The Perfect Femme Fatale. However, she did not even remember a single thing about her... about herself. To truly learn about Alanka and what actually happened to her, sh...

We investigate the memory banks recorded in the log files of a man who wakes up to find his body is riddled with augmentations. He struggles to recall large parts of his memory that's wiped and what secrets it may hide.

In a dystopian future set in 2140, there's a category of men, the "Machine Men" who possess a mechanical heart, a "Machine Heart." The story tells about one of these individuals, K-111, and his "special" job in a society that has now pushed beyond all the limits and lost every value and virtue ....

Tens of thousands of light years away from Earth, in the planet-wide city of Bibliotheca Aeterna, a young woman had just arrived. Her name was Constance Rainsford, an Earthling summmoned to the home of the Kexterans to serve as an Archivist, bearers of the ancient civilisation. Uprooted from ...

Solipsism is the idea that only your mind is real, and that everything else experienced is not. Like AI, generated by something unknown. Solipsys was a cancelled project. A device that could take you back to any point in your past. The hardware was so advanced you could live out different cho...

I didn't ask to be born, but I was. I'm not an entrepreneur, revolutionary, or politician; I'm just a person, and not a great one at that. I don't care about the Martian Wars or corporate actions. I just want to survive. Turns out survival is pretty tough, so sometimes I load some shock to tak...

In a predacious, corporate world of advanced cybernetics, the life of a young boy is put to the test. What kind of test? A Turing test. And the only reason being that he was born within the confines of a simulated reality. His plan is to escape. But escape isn’t all that easy within a ...

‘Welcome! Welcome to Tokyo5!’ As the ad-birds sing. When they’re not being scavenged for parts, that is. Or reprogrammed by hack-worms. Or - well, in any case... welcome! Tokyo5. Just one of the thousand AR cities that now occupy the site of Old Tokyo, itself no more than a legend beneath the ...

In the modern-day Jahan where every problem has a solution a boy, Edra Banoto has happened to diagnose with an illness that causes his vital organs to fail. The new technology also allows for determining how long a person can survive a disease, with nothing much left in his life after his parent'...

Isn't it such a cute idea that dystopia is a destination to be reached? Despite descending into eternal torture within the core of the Earth, the thoughts that lingered in his mind were that of his daughter... What responsibility does an individual have to the larger communities they reside in...