She's in the most dangerous place in the world.Prof. Meridia Vail, a member of the Bridgeway Space Station, has escaped the government stronghold and is on a mission among the human population of this "new" Earth. She needs to find scientists, engineers, researchers, anyone who can help her and her crew get back to their derelict space station that has crossed over into a different dimension. The sooner the better, too. The Bridgeway is in a decaying orbit and has ...

In the year 2061, the human race is racing toward extinction. The few babies that were conceived are nothing more than mutant monstrosities known as T-rex babies. Governments around the world have come together to not only share their medical research, but to enforce strict breeding policies that range from fourteen year olds having sex to mandated insemination.Helicopter pilot, Lilia Grayson has delighted in casual sex like billions of others, only to discover she's carrying the f...

A thunderous explosion echoes through the vastness of space. The Bridgeway Space Station is rocked by a catastrophic blast, sending Chief Engineer Meridia Vail and her international crew spiraling into an alternate dimension. They awake to find themselves stranded on an Earth trapped technologically in the past.As the gravitational forces of this backwards planet wreak havoc on their metabolisms, Meridia races against time to locate her missing crew members before they meet an omin...

Project Solstice, Book One.Empath Ava Frost is searching for her triplet brother, Ian, who's disappeared without a trace. When she learns he's been murdered and his death covered up, she also discovers a terrifying secret that could endanger billions of people across the planet…Skinwalkers, vampires, and werewolves – the entire supernatural world, in fact – are the result of breeding between humans and aliens who crash-landed on earth thousands of years ago. Now, Section 51...

The aliens have stepped up their game via a series of pinpointed EMP attacks, starting with the weapons research base Unit 51. Like the base, Ava learns just how vulnerable she is after another EMP strike not only cuts her off from Ian 2, but crashes her plane. Her only hope for rescue is a small, Canadian town where the residents are werewolves.They know about Project Solstice, and they're not the only ones. Dozens of supernaturals have joined forces to share not only their techno...

Project Solstice, Book Two.Ava Frost has spent the past three months mourning the death of her brother, Ian, but now she's facing criminal charges from Department 51 – charges that could put her in federal prison for the rest of her life unless she accepts their "work-release" deal.She can hardly stand working for the organization she blames for the death of her brother, yet while on the Department 51 base, she makes a chilling discovery… a sentient, complex computer progra...

Lilia Grayson, the first woman to give birth to twins in more than twenty-five years, has entered her second trimester with a blast when members of a radical group called the Right Hand's Wrath invade her parent's home on Christmas Day. Everyone survives, but the Mortality Agency's plan to put Lilia in hiding backfires when she's kidnapped by a billionaire Jason Pollard.Pollard's wants to find the perfect breeder for his son, Liam, who's a reluctant member of Generation X-tinction....

Ava Frost has a new mission and a new enemy. To stop the impending alien invasion of Earth, she and her brother Elias must use their special connection to computerized consciousness Ian 2 to infiltrate Space 51, an illegal base in orbit around Saturn's moon.The human alien hybrids on Space 51 could play a vital role in defeating a hostile alien race that nearly wiped them all out once…and plans to try again. But can they be trusted? As Ava struggles to figure out if working with th...

Lilia Grayson is near the end of her third trimester and out of time. Her outspokenness against fertility laws forces the more the Mortality Agency to clamp down on her activities. With a presidential election looming, they can't afford to lose the hold they have over her and the rest of the country.One last tour during her third trimester ends when a group of rebels crash the venue. It's the perfect time to go into hiding, but rather than make a move to save herself, she helps oth...

A collection of imaginative new stories about the impending robotic revolution and human resistance, from seventeen of the biggest names insci-fi. Including - HUGH HOWEY, SCOTT SIGLER, DANIEL H. WILSON, CORY DOCTOROW and JULIANNE BAGGOTT.Someday soon, our technology is going to rise up and we humans are going to be sliced into bloody chunks by robots that in our hubris we decided to build with chainsaws for hands. That's a fact as cold and hard as metal.It is self-evident t...

Beyond the Cradle of mankind, the universe is vast, unknown, dangerous to the unwary…or those caught in the path of intrepid explorers proceeding without forethought.Thirteen authors explore what it is to pioneer the future in tales fraught with danger and remorse, tempered with hope, luck, and serendipity. We face the monsters. We face the truth. We face ourselves.Whether the frontier is that of science or space, there is no doubt that at some point one must ask …If we had...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our August 2022 issue (#191) contains:Original fiction by M. J. Pettit ("Tender, Tether, Shell"), Bo Balder ("The Pirates Counselor"), Finbarr O’Reilly ("Pollatomish"), Carrie Vaughn ("Polly and (Not) Charles Conquer the Solar System"), R.T. Ester ("Slight Forms"), Leonard Richardson ("The Scene of the Crime"), an...