The drone’s shadow
The Fractal Equation
The room was bathed in an otherworldly golden glow, the kind that seemed to emanate…
Survivors
On the edge of the Martian Valles Marineris Under a violet-hued sky streaked with thin,…
It was a perfect morning to fall apart…
Her apartment stretched out around her She opened her eyes to a city drenched in…
The Silence of the Automaton
The Machine That Broke Purity Two days earlier, Ysara had been in the upper echelons…
The Ghost Circuit
A Scream in Neon A scream—the sound of warped metal and splintering glass—ripped through the…
The Neon Shadows
The Price of Truth Three weeks earlier, Lana had been a systems analyst for AeonCore,…
The Iron Hearts of New Carthage
From the Fire The city was engulfed in smoke now, digital boards overhead flickering with…
The Harbinger of Fire
Inferno Rising The creature emerged first as a shadow, rippling in the infernal glow of…
The Veins of Eternity
The desert stretched endlessly beneath a bruised violet sky, embroidered with threads of silver stars.…
The Shatterproof Legacy
The Catalyst On what seemed like an ordinary afternoon, Arik stood beneath Aureon’s gargantuan Biosphere…
The Moondust Nomad
The desert sang at night. Long after the twin suns of Jasara set, their heat…
The Shadow Beneath the Oasis
The wind screamed through the jagged canyons of basalt, tossing grains of crimson sand high…
The Sapphire Signal
The year was 2265. Humanity’s golden-edge towers scraped skies of orbital blue while the earth…
The Fire Beneath the Waves
The Chaos at Scarborough Reef Minutes earlier, the battle had erupted near the Chaldean Reefs—a…