“When they failed to kill us defectives, the Pure shut us out. That was in March. Most of the Rebels died in May. As for the rest of us, we’ll all be dead by winter.” In a future where humans are born missing vital organs, and heat is the only resource convertible into energy, most defective...

After 7 years, the first World war in history had finally ended.. And while most had feared it, some longed for it.. In the end only those with enough power or influence were given the choice to either take part in it or hide from it. At the dawn of world restoration and after 31 years an...

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...

Beneath an abandoned parking garage in Chicago, Kairo Morutsuku discovers a young girl is being kept in a mysterious facility. He frees her, but only days after she learns of the outside, she is forced to flee when the people researching her Aspect attempt to recapture her.

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'...