The sky filled with water. The city ran dry.When tides recede without warning, and taps begin to run dry, Rio de Janeiro wakes to an impossible sight: a vast sphere of water suspended above the city. No one knows where it came from or what it means — but the consequences are immediate.Chico sells grilled cheese on Copacabana Beach, trying to care for his daughter, as shortages ripple outward and order begins to decay. Knox works security for ÁGUA-GEN, the c...

In the dark forests surrounding the ancient city of Alba Longa, twin babies are cast adrift in a wicker basket and left to die. However, they are rescued and raised by the she-wolf, Lupa, and protected by Seraphina, the immortal daughter of Medusa, as a favor to the twins' father, Mars. Romulus and Remus are destined to found the greatest city the world will ever know, and Seraphina must guide the two young men so that the Fates' will is achieved.With Alba Longa under the grip of t...

Medusa's Daughter: Odyssey of Vengeance is a thrilling mythological adventure that follows Seraphina, the immortal daughter of Medusa and Poseidon. Born during her mother's tragic death at the hands of Perseus, Seraphina is raised by Medusa's loyal handmaidens, Ismene and Ophelia.Centuries later, as an art restorer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seraphina's life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers her divine heritage and the truth about her father's role in her mother's...

Coppélia is just a robot. Or is she?The year is 2103. Detective Inspector Karen Chambers arrives at NewMet City's SVU to interview a potential sexual assault victim. The call to attend surprised Karen as she's head of the Sexdroid Unit and usually deals with crimes such as misappropriation of sexbots, unregistered sexbot use, and kindbot misuse (kindbot use is strictly controlled and for psychotherapy purposes only).Imagine Karen's surprise when she discove...

Imagine an artificial intelligence so powerful that it becomes divine.In a world driven by innovation and technological wonders, Carol McGovern finds herself at the epicenter of a groundbreaking evolution. As a senior research scientist at Intellekta, she witnesses the birth and rise of an extraordinary AI, destined to reshape the course of humanity's future.Intellektabegins as a humble Narrow Artificial Intelligence, serving as a tool for progress and adva...

A sci-fi parable on the consequences of personal freedom taken to extremes.Reece Pargeter is a normal seventeen-year-old schoolboy who has no real idea what he wants to do with his life. But that all changes when he has a consultation with a career advice counsellor and discovers that his destiny is already mapped out for him.. He is to become a Reaper, reporting to Mr Grimm.Leaving the corporeal world behind for the ethereal realm of Control, Reece learns ...

It's Sereia's 18th birthday and she does something that she hasn't done for five years – she falls out of bed, waking her up ten minutes before her alarm is due to go off.Her duvet is wrapped around her when she falls and she assumes that this is why she can't move her legs. But when she disentangles herself from the duvet, she is in for a shock – her legs have disappeared and, in their place, she has grown a fish tail overnight.She's supposed to be meeting her friends for ...

A flash of blinding light followed by a mushroom cloud changes life for ever in the UK, as a nuclear winter descends upon the country, a giant ash cloud severely restricting daylight, leaving everything bathed in twilight, no matter the time of day.Glenn, a regular guy who is addicted to watching YouTube videos, Catarina, a Brazilian on vacation in the U.K., and Princess, a disabled stray dog chance upon each other after a nuclear attack and travel west, to Land's End, in an attemp...

It's just another day at Lowell Observatory, Arizona until Amy, one of the astrophysicists on duty, notices something on a computer screen that shouldn't be there. It's an asteroid, a Near-Earth Object, and its orbit trajectory will lead it to collide with Earth.And it's as big as the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office springs into action with three potential solutions - detonating an explosive device near the asteroid to brea...

Eloise Hudson, Caucasian, female, twenty-five years old, winces with pain as she feels the blade draw across her skin. She has no idea why her captor took her or why he tortures her so. She doesn't know him and has done nothing to harm or offend him – not as far as she knows, anyway. Perhaps her very existence is enough to sign her death warrant.In this sci-fi thriller, a serial killer is terrorizing a city but the police have no leads until the murderer makes a mistake and leaves ...

Judd Witherspoon is a throwback, different from his fellow Duoterrans in that he has the round pupils of his Terran ancestors, and not the cat-like eyes of the majority of the planet's inhabitants.Finding a niche for himself, he sets himself up as a courier, ferrying packages and documents between the planet's settlements, via the inter-city corridor network that protects travellers from the searing heat of the surrounding desert.It's a dangerous job, not just because of po...

(Previously published as 'WTF?')A flurry of activity takes over the Intensive Care Unit as medical staff go about their tasks preparing the room for a critically ill patient. The doors of the ICU burst open and a gurney is pushed to the side of the bed. Doctors and nurses take their positions either side of the gurney and expertly transfer the patient to the bed. Fortunately, Arnold Leadbetter is unaware of what is going on, his comatose state shielding him from th...