Calista escapes the earthquake that destroys the tunnel communities. Quake City calls, offering security and a new life with Mathew and the Carbonites. But, Josephine, Castor Seville's new wife, has a secret she wants Calista to share, and one of the M.I.C.s has survived and is coming to claim his children. Calista's journey through the Nuclear Dawn of New Zealand continues with challenges and surprises. She will need all the skills she has learned to cope with them.

Is that sugar in your tea, or something else?And really, how would you know?Just how "life imitates art" is a perception we often take for granted, the ongoing fusion of technology into our daily routines may soon twist into wondering what is real, and what is not.Is AI really for our betterment … or the first steps towards subjugation?Artificial Sweetener is a collection of 17 speculative fiction short stories and poems from SpecFicNZ members exploring the w...

In a world divided, can one woman choose her own destiny?Calista faces an impossible choice: lead a rebellion or breed for a dying society. Trapped in underground tunnels beneath a post-nuclear New Zealand, she's told radiation makes the surface deadly. But her father, a coal-worshipping Carbonite, whispers of a different truth.Torn between duty and a yearning for freedom, Calista must escape the tunnels and discover the world for herself. But with every st...

Welcome to the End of the World...and more importantly, what comes after.Disasters have occurred around the country and the world, but we're "getting through it", as Kiwi are apt to do. She'll be right. Life moves on, in some form.Things were bad here in Aotearoa, but in our isolation down under, we've escaped most of the chaos around the world. In fact, we might be the last bastion of humanity on the planet - anybody else home out there? R...