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  • Domesteaders

    Cloud 8.5
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    In a world facing the dystopian challenges of climate change, beaver ethologist Beavan Broderick is doing everything he can to protect the future, one pond at a time. When he meets an eccentric family secretly working on a miraculously strong,...


  • Some Monster

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    “A small eternity I did spend in near solitude, with naught but a madman as company. In consequence, I find it did leave me ill-prepared to approach some circumstances.” –Sam (773 AF). Lieutenant Thomas Walker’s mission was successful, but he...


  • The Growth Of A Duke

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    In the untold beginnings of Earth’s history, a highly-sophisticated alien race seeded the planet with human DNA. In that intervention, they planted the Kowalewski bloodline, a lineage that inherited not just more of the interstellar farming...


  • Vigour

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    It isn’t a matter of if you want kids. Are you allowed? Gwendy is days away from knowing where she stands in the procreation hierarchy. In the test, she decides, “When in doubt, do what Allie would do,” because her perfect best friend is sure to...


  • The Utopia

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    In the Utopia, where all major decisions are made by the Computer, life is far from idyllic for many. Three ordinary people find their lives intertwined in a society that demands conformity and obedience. Deron Boyd, a man struggling with loss...


  • River Faces North

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    The year is 2036, and the land once known as North America is ravaged by environmental decay and ruled with an iron fist by the oppressive Millennial cult known as The Elect. Seventy-eight year-old Flo is documenting what might be, in her...


  • After

    A Cautionary Tale
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    As 2032 comes to a close, Max Poirier and Annie Dekker are enjoying a vacation in Lofoten, Norway. Moments before Max proposes to Annie, a nuclear explosion rocks Bodø, almost a hundred kilometres away across the sea. They soon learn that Bodø is...


  • The Key

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    Despite having been born into a dystopian world, shattered into isolated but powerful Factions by a brutal civil war, Darcy Newman has it easier than most. The daughter of the powerful leader of Faction 2, she’s always been sheltered from the...


  • Sundered Agency

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    In the year 2098, when a pact between the United States and Canada is put into motion, US Military protection is traded for the arranged trade of Canadian freshwater. Part of the trade pact was the dissolvement of the Canadian military under the...


  • Brave Survivors are Superhumans

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    In this collection of sixteen short stories, everyday people become brave survivors as the world as they know it is ripped apart and they endure landscapes destroyed by colonial conquest, faulty technology, climate change, and natural disasters...