The Final Chronicle of Yeneh — Jo Miles (Horned Lark Press)

Alien first contact tangles up with portal fantasy in this lush, adventurous tale, perfect for anyone who grew up dreaming of visiting Narnia or traveling to the stars.

Lady Ada Quintrall, heir to her grandfather the Duke of Corbridge, wants nothing more than to see her family’s new planet successfully terraformed, restoring their fortune and ensuring them a stable future. That means shutting away her whimsical side (including the beloved Chronicles of Yeneh, a children’s portal fantasy written by her own ancestor)—and refusing the requests of Dr. Zamora, the xenobiologist who is begging to study the planet’s native life before it’s driven extinct.

Ada’s own encounters with the native life are vicious and unsettling. But when Zamora trespasses into an Infested Zone, Ada goes after him and discovers the astonishing truth: Not only does this planet have native sentient life, but those beings share a connection to her family that’s older, deeper, and closer to her heart than she could have imagined.

July 7, 2026 • Novella • First Contact Sci-Fi / Portal Fantasy

The Next Enemy Shall Be the Last — Stewart Hotston (NewCon Press)

Stewart Hotston, a scientist by training, delivers an enthralling science fiction thriller involving an alien artefact and the implications of its arrival.

In the 1970s something lands on a beach in Devon. An artefact that twists space time and renders our grasp of reality irrelevant. Somehow, it also endows those near it with the ability to change the laws of physics.

Forty years later suspicions grow that there may be a second artefact. In Russia. Moses is sent to investigate and, if necessary, neutralise the threat.

Told across two generations, this gripping tale follows a father, Ben, and his son, Moses, separated by forty years as the former helps set up a government agency to deal with the phenomenon and the latter deals with the consequences of his late father’s actions.

July 7, 2026 • Novel • Sci-Fi Thriller

Unlawful Orders — Rick Partlow (Aethon Books)

Bestseller Rick Partlow is back with an explosive military science fiction adventure filled with tactical space combat.

To save the future, he must stand against his own Fleet.

Cole Ransom, Captain of the ICA cruiser Mistral, is a man with a checkered past and a crew of misfits held together by loyalty and stolen parts. He’s made a career bending the rules.

And after being blamed for an incident that nearly restarted a galactic war, he’s used to being the Fleet’s favorite scapegoat.

But when a routine investigation leads Cole to stumble upon a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the United Systems Senate, everything changes.

He’s the only thing standing between a rogue supersoldier program built from illegal human augmentation and a cyborg army.

Hunted across outlaw worlds and outgunned at every turn, Cole must decide how far he’s willing to go—and what he’s willing to sacrifice—to stop a war no one is ready for.

The orders are illegal. The mission is suicide. The Captain is a Renegade.

July 14, 2026 • Novel • Military Sci-Fi

The Bird Shaman — Judith Moffett (Fairwood Press)

Occupation of Earth is now in its 27th year, and relations between humanity and the dictatorial Hefn have never seemed shakier. The aliens mission is to save the planet from its human abusers; and the Baby Ban imposed by mass hypnosis has made Earth a cleaner, wilder, less crowded place. But the Ban has now lasted so long, and provoked such hatred, that when a spark is struck the situation explodes into worldwide riots on one side and retaliatory mindwipings on the other. Years of effort by the eco-spiritual Gaians, who mediate between humans and Hefn, have been destroyed.

While the Gaians regroup and brainstorm frantically in an atmosphere of doubt and danger, one obsessed Hefn and one young woman begin a radical experiment. Pam Pruitt has discovered a growing ability to acquire information by non-rational means. Childhood suffering has empowered her, in a way once understood by hunting and gathering peoples — an understanding lost with that lost lifeway — to communicate with mysterious forces through strong dreaming: to function as a shaman on behalf of her community, the human race.

July 14, 2026 • Novel • Alien Invasion

Worlds Collide — Clint Hall (Enclave Publishing)

Five worlds at war. Only one can survive.

Ten thousand years ago, five cosmic beings―a dragon, a phoenix, a serpent, a lion, and a wolf―set their worlds on an inevitable collision course. Each civilization was given one command: destroy the rival worlds, or crash into them and die.

As the planets draw near to each other, the moment of final reckoning is at hand. In a galaxy filled with starfighters and superweapons, magic and manipulation, planet-killing devices and mechanized legions, five heroes must defend their homeworlds against overwhelming odds.

But when prophecy and destiny collide, a far greater power begins to stir―one that challenges everything they’ve been told.

Oaths will be broken. Chains will be shattered. Champions will rise. The fate of the universe hangs in the balance as these heroes discover whether any world deserves to survive.

The War of the Creators has begun.

July 14, 2026 • Novel • Epic Christian Space Opera

A Fugitive’s History of the Known Universe — Nadia Afifi (Flame Tree Press)

In the sequel to A Rebel’s History of Mars, Azad and his fellow time-traveling historians must contend with the consequences of the dark secrets they’ve exposed…

After exposing the dark origins of his world on the distant planet of Nabatea, Azad is a fugitive, hunted across the galaxy by the fearsome Vitruvian Authorities. But to lead a passive society into revolution, Azad and his crew must enlist the unlikely help of a space pirate with an agenda all her own. Their adventures once again draw them into the past, into the early days of settlement on Nabatea, where a death continues to haunt the fledgling community and a mother must contend with her son’s monstrous vision for their new home.

July 21, 2026 • Novel • Time Travel

Extinction Horizon — Nicholas Sansbury Smith (Aethon Books)

The remastered and definitive edition of the explosive novel that helped redefine the modern zombie apocalypse—by New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith. Includes an exclusive new prequel novella, Operation Killzone!

A mission that doesn’t exist. A threat that could end us all. A rapidly spreading outbreak no one can contain.

When a covert Medical Corps facility goes dark, it triggers a classified response. Master Sergeant Reed Beckham has led Delta Force Team Ghost through every kind of hell imaginable—and never lost a man. But this time, his team is deployed to contain a biological outbreak that has already escaped.

By the time they return to Fort Bragg, it’s spreading and turning people into Variants: hyper-fast, intelligent, and ravenous predators. Bullets and bombs can slow them, but they won’t stop them. Only science might.

As outbreaks escalate and cities begin to collapse, the military launches Operation Reaper—firebombing infected zones in a desperate attempt to slow the advance. In the middle of the chaos, Team Ghost is ordered to keep CDC virologist Dr. Kate Lovato alive while she searches for a cure.

What she uncovers is a terrifying truth and a solution that could either save humanity or destroy what remains. Because sometimes, to kill a monster… you have to create one.

July 21, 2026 • Novel • Post Apocalyptic (Reedition, first pub. 2014)

The Best of All Possible Planets — Alex Shvartsman (UFO Publishing)

Far From Now, In a Galaxy Really, Really Close…

The last denizens of Earth, aka Planet Dirt, have a problem. Their protective force shield is breaking, which will mean annihilation. Now it’s up to a small group of intrepid dilettantes to procure a new one.

From planet to planet, danger to danger, and stupid choice to stupid choice, the team blunders their way across the galaxy, trying to save the day and survive the trip.

Don’t let the Call to Adventure go to voicemail. Follow the corgis!

Hilarious space opera comedy for the fans of Futurama and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Cozy science fiction humor, and corgis!

July 28, 2026 • Novel • Humorous Science Fiction

Split Signal — David Bunn (Severn House)

Peyton’s migraines won’t stop . . . but they’re not what they seem.

Peyton isn’t convinced when Miami police declare her sister Evelyn’s death part of a multiple suicide pact and close the case. So when the FBI reveal they believe Evelyn was murdered, and there could be a link to the recent FBI sting operation the sisters took part in, she agrees to work undercover at Etico, a California start-up turning the world of social media upside-down.

But Peyton is also experiencing uncontrollable migraines . . . and they’re becoming more frequent. Scientists are perplexed that her brain doesn’t follow normal activity during a migraine attack—in fact, the two sides appear to be working independently of each other.

As alarming discoveries are made at Etico, Peyton is sure these are not only connected to her sister’s death but also her migraines . . . Can she find the missing link that will expose the truth?

An enthralling read for fans of twisty high-stakes thrillers, technothrillers, and science fiction from Blake Crouch and Andy Weir.

August 4, 2026 • Novel • Sci-Fi Thriller

Liberation Now! — Seb Doubinsky (Meerkat Press)

A radical and trippy sci-fi political fable about an improbable gang of women fighting for the freedom of planet Earth.

Things are looking grim for Earth as the alien force known as the Subliminal Empire seems to enjoy a complete yet unnoticed control of the planet. However, a motley crew composed of a city-state president on the run, a financial advisor who quit her job, a disgruntled academic studying the dangers of A.I. and an undercover alien agent who previously worked as a manager for a rock band might very well jeopardize the cosmic imperialists’ plan and prove once and for all that one should never underestimate the power of women when it comes to liberation.

Doubinsky masterfully crescendos his genre-defying saga in this breathless, action-packed standalone finale.

August 4, 2026 • Novel • Speculative Fiction

Aliens in New Florida — Carmen Loup (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)

Two years ago in a post-apocalyptic Florida, Mick’s village was raided, and she’s been searching for her lost girlfriend ever since. Her only clue is a note stuck to her machete: Meet me at The Kingdom. But The Kingdom isn’t easy to find, especially in a decrepit solar-powered van.

On her journey, she meets Rawr, local cryptid, who not only knows where The Kingdom is, but will pay Mick to take them there to honor the dying wish of an old friend. An old friend who claims to be an omniscient alien and cheerfully tells Mick the exact circumstances of her own impending death.

Along the way, they get sacrificed by an alien cult; nearly collected a homicidal diorama artisan; trapped in a liminal Waffle House; lost in the ruins of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride; and chased by Putnam, mafia godmother and alien hunter.

All this cannot keep them from falling a little in love, but Rawr’s a walking biohazard, and Mick’s closer than ever to reuniting with her lost lover. But when Mick discovers the truth behind the raid, her worldview is blasted into the cosmos and she must fight her own fate to save Rawr.

August 6, 2026 • Novel • Humorous Post Apocalyptic Romance

Midwestern Chrome — Michael Bettendorf (Tenebrous Press)

A burned-out detective trapped in a cold case finds a curious lead—the severed head of an android who cries for help in the voice of his dead wife. It has her memories. It has her personality. But is it…Elsie? 

Welcome to the frayed-wire-and-spare-parts autopsy of a near-future Nebraska, lit bright by neon promises and smoldering with broken dreams. Society is high on body augmentations and self-interest and low on moral reckonings.

Harlan’s cold case takes center stage in the novella Our Bird Trills Mechanical, but desperate people willing to do whatever it takes fill the pages: people like Lucian Lucky, an augment-addicted prizefighter who must decide if the cost of winning is worth the size of the purse; or Javier, a love-struck henchman who’s fallen for the niece of his violent boss.

Freaks, fighters, fixers and f&%k-ups: fortune favors the corrupt in MIDWESTERN CHROME.

August 11, 2026 • Short Story Collection • Dystopian Cyber Noir

Bewilderness — Jonathan Maberry (WordFire Press)

Bewilderness is a gripping tale of science fiction horror as two women—one human, one alien—battle each other to save infinity. 

Dr. Abby Corman has a bold idea: open a stable doorway between our world and an uninhabited parallel Earth. A new world we can use to mine resources to end poverty, grow enough food to end all hunger, and allow for population growth to end overcrowding. What could be a more noble aspiration for a brilliant young scientist?  But the path to hell is paved with good intentions…

The Gateway is in a secure lab in a huge office building in New York. Ultra-modern, totally secure, impenetrable by industrial spies or foreign agents. Once it goes into lockdown for the Gateway test firing, it becomes the world’s largest and most unbreakable vault.

Locked doors, though, can do more than keep bad things out. They can trap bad things in. The Gateway spins completely out of control, sending infinite Earths onto a collision course with ours. Now, our reality is cracking apart, allowing creatures from Earth’s distant past and monsters from parallel worlds to emerge, turning New York into a hellscape.

Abby Corman did not open the Gateway, but she is the only one who knows how to close it. But an alien Hunter and her pack of deadly hellcats have stepped into our world, and they will stop at nothing to kill Abby. Because in a universe of parallel worlds, one Earth’s savior can be the worst criminal other Earths have ever known.

August 11, 2026 • Novel • Sci-Fi Horror

The Book of Bots — James Patrick Kelly (Fairwood Press)

Hugo and Nebula award winning writer James Patrick Kelly has spent the last thirty years thinking about robots. In the twelve stories of The Book of Bots they take many forms. Some look like humans or are embodied in spaceships. One is a house and another is a car. Several exist only in cyberspace. Two are visitors from the future. They are caretakers and lovers, explorers and financial advisors. All have been created to serve, but also have personal agendas that arise from a fierce sense of identity. 

​Fans of Kelly’s long running column in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine will also want to read two new articles included here. “The Comedy of Science” is a wry tour of the history of robots in science fiction and “Robots on Parade 2026” is frank assessment of the current state of robotics and AI.

August 18, 2026 • Short Story Collection • Science Fiction

Testament of Leaves — Carolyn Ives Gilman (Fairwood Press)

In the isolated thickets of a faraway planet, a linguist lies dead. Inscrutinator Shameesh Kulkarni must find out why. But no one wants to not the prospectors searching for mineral wealth, not the archaeologists trying to piece together a ruined city, not the local schoolteacher, and certainly not the indigenous people whose language the dead woman was researching.

Only two beings are interested in helping Shameesh solve the a digital replica of the victim herself, and the inquistitive octopod who befriended her. Three brains are better than one, even if one is a bot and another is an invertebrate, because there is more than one mystery here to solve.

Here, the landscape itself hides layers of centuries-old secrets—secrets that inhabitants must protect at all costs. Shameesh’s job is to reveal the truth—on a planet where the truth cannot be spoken.

August 18, 2026 • Novella • Sci-Fi Mystery

The Astronaut Among the Flowers — P.A. Cornell (Stars and Sabers)

This debut collection by Nebula-nominated author P.A. Cornell brings together twenty-one tales of fantasy and science fiction that run the gamut from lighthearted to dark.

The stories examine our connections to each other, to technology, to the world that surrounds us, and even to ourselves. Journey through circumstances that defy explanation, and explore events yet to come, that have come before, or that exist outside of time altogether.

Included are Cornell’s acclaimed story “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont,” as well as the award-winning “Splits,” and two brand new works published here for the first time.

August 18, 2026 • Short Story Collection • Science Fiction

Makeshift — Peter Rock (Soft Skull Press)

Abandoned on a remote island known as Makeshift, three sisters—Ari, Heiko, and CeCe—believe they’re the last humans on Earth.

These three, left alone after a band of foreigners slaughtered their entire community, must learn to fend for themselves. They fish and forage in the shallow waters of their protected cove, salvage useful treasures from the rusting hulks of ships that ran aground on its offshore reefs, and entertain themselves with half-remembered tales from their time before.

But when they stray beyond the island into a wider, broken world, they find that life may not be as they believed. And upon their return to the island, they face further revelations that strain their bonds, hint that secrets may be everywhere, and affirm their need for one another in the face of a perilous future. Makeshift is a singular novel of hope and survival set on a small rock-bound island in the coastal Pacific Northwest, and a testament to devotion and allegiance rendered with the haunting grace of Rock’s precision prose.

August 25, 2026 • Novel • Post Apocalytic

Gunmaker — Chris Gerrib (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)

Martika Clybourne is the new legal consultant for the 433 Platinum Mining LLC on Gavin Station, a torus happily spinning inside the asteroid Eros. What was meant to be an easy job is turned upside-down when she’s called to investigate an officer killed by bullet wounds on a station with no projectile weapons.

Her investigation turns up more corruption and shady business than she thought possible for such a small colony. But when the operations manager Shah dies of natural causes, two sides form: the officers and company enforcers against the station workers. Martika quickly realizes Shah was the only person holding this spinning station of unrest together, and it may be up to her to keep it from turning to chaos.

Come for the civil unrest and stay for the rebellion, in Gunmaker, by Chris Gerrib!

August 25, 2026 • Novel • Hard Sci-Fi

Fruits of our Labor — Ian Patterson (Shiraki Press)

A new world is emerging, one parthenogenetic birth at a time.

In a near-future America where women have just gained access to asexual reproduction, Samara yearns for freedom from her dying relationship, and a child of her own—fully her own.

As parthenogenetic birth takes hold and the role of men in the survival of the species diminishes, protest and outcry sweep across the nation. Sierra, one of the first “partho babies”, is bullied relentlessly as she grows up and seeks her place in this new pressure cooker of changing gender roles and norms.

And in the aftermath of the “Days of Horror”, a period of violent backlash from displaced men, a professor of history looks back on the rise of PG birth in an attempt to understand the impact of this era of upheaval on the world.

Together, these three converging perspectives tell the story of a profound societal transformation that asks who gets to have autonomy, who gets to write the future, and who that future is for.

August 25, 2026 • Novella • Speculative Fiction

Zyon — Katharine Kerr (CAEZIK SF & Fantasy)

Over a hundred years ago, the inhabitants of the planet Zyon exiled a disruptive group of religious fanatics to its sister planet, Ninva. The exiles and their descendants have never stopped brooding on revenge. After a brutal invasion, they finally get their opportunity for bloody vengeance as the Zyon falls to the fanatics.

Only one person manages to escape Zyon. Andra Godluv turns to the planet Thorn and to beg for help from the Rim Council and their battle group.

Even if Thorn responds can the Thorn fleet even get to Zyon in time to make a difference since Zyon has been cut off from the Rim ever since its one access shunt was destroyed?

Dan Brennan is tasked to find a new, faster route for the fleet. But even if he succeeds, Thorn itself is struggling with multitude of problems, including new threats from the terrorist group, The Bloody Vigilantes, thought to have been eradicated.

August 25, 2026 • Novel • Space Opera

The Tongue I Dream In — Sheree Renée Thomas (PM Press)

The tongue Sheree Renée Thomas dreams in is soft and sharp, ethereal and down-home.

This book of poems, stories, and essays draws together examples illustrating a mind immersed in Black legends and white myths, and in the growing realization of our place in the world and time, and in irresistible pull of the future: starships, floods, dancers twinned by crystal-filled caverns, and iridescent crops of living retribution.

In her interview, Thomas explores the intricate intersections of poetry and activism and underscores the way she inhabits them. Taste with this book’s tongue the salty sweetness of her world.

August 25, 2026 • Poetry & Essay Collection • Science Fiction

Ellipses — D.A. Xiaolin Spires (Infinivox)

A journey of a thousand years ends with a strange set of footprints on an unexplored world of a distant star. Now the real odyssey begins.

Koharu is about to step up her game. She’s on the exoplanet Kepler-62f, with her exploration team, searching for a suitable landing spot for their orbiting spacecraft when she comes across alien creatures huddled together. They do not appear to be hostile. Are they intelligent? Is this planet big enough for both them and humans? Establishing personal contact with another species is a young field biologist’s dream. To meet the moment she will use visual, auditory, and chemical signaling; proprioception; cutting-edge tech; even an ancient Chinese celestial jade artifact. Of course, communicating with aliens is one thing, getting through to her boyfriend is another matter entirely.

August 2026 • Novella • Hard Sci-Fi

Precious Children — Mary G. Thompson (Tachyon Publications)

A wealthy family trying to cheat death is overmatched—by a stubborn teenager hiding in a body that looks like their son. In this taut tale of genetics and entitlement, nature vs. nurture goes horrifyingly wrong.

Dina Blake’s fourteen-year-old son, Geoff, has just died for the second time. But everything will be okay. The Blake family’s wealth has bought them thousands of clones of each of their children. These children are farmed out to loving families, but with the caveat that the bodies are always available to the Blakes.

After Geoff dies, the Blakes upload their son’s memories into Nathan, who is an unwilling host, desperate to stay with the family who loved him.

Dina’s younger daughter, Di, is terrified because she knows something her parents don’t—the memory transfer doesn’t always go as planned. The Geoff who’s been living with them since his first death isn’t the person her mother thinks he is, and the families of the bodies the Blakes steal aren’t all innocent.

When Geoff returns to life in Nathan’s body, he has to contend with Nathan’s frustrating desire to live and his unexpected ability to fight for his life. For some children to live, others must die. Dina must decide how far she’ll go to protect her children, and Geoff must find out if, and who, he’s willing to kill.

September 1, 2026 • Novel • Dystopian Sci-Fi Horror

Crimson in Quietus: A Sauútiverse Novel — Eugene Bacon (Meerkat Press)

From the queen of genre-bending speculative fiction, comes the newest Sauútiverse offering, a mystery like no other, where the investigator is not a detective, but a sound scientist.

In a world where sound is a tangible force, Muso’mi is a maadiregi―an expert in the art of consuming it. At the prestigious Mahadum, she researches the language of silence, seeking to master the gift her mother calls theft. But academic intrigue turns to deadly peril when her friend vanishes after unearthing a hidden truth. Pursuing clues through pools of quietude across worlds, Muso’mi stumbles upon a horrifying discovery: a pattern of carnage left in fields of harvested silence. Now, the hunter becomes the hunted, as her unique expertise draws her into the orbit of a serial killer who understands the power of sound all too well.

Includes a glossary of Bantu, Afrocentric and made-up words from this cross-cultural tale written in gorgeous lyrical language packed with emotion.

September 1, 2026 • Novel • Speculative Mystery

Romance and the Gentle Art of Rocket Racing — Rena Rocford (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)

Sometimes a lady just needs to race.

Gerry has the unenviable task of marrying off her once-lover Sora to her half-brother, Reggie. Who is also the king of their colony. Oh, and also no one can know Reggie is her half-brother because of a gaggle of political and secret agendas that would cause Gerry to lose her entire inheritance. In addition, King Reginald is one misstep away from a medical emergency because of his many genetic illnesses. Also a secret.

So what’s a girl to do but to serve as ambassador and wedding coordinator for her secret half-brother, secretly invalid king to procure the galaxy-renown butterfly silks of Estria to make the wedding go off without a hitch? But then disaster strikes Estria just as the negotiations start with a staggeringly attractive representative of the Katagani silk conglomerate, Kalia. Gerry is stuck with only Sora, Kalia, and her skills in rocket racing to make sure the wedding goes as planned and her brother stays in power!

September 15, 2026 • Novel • Science Fiction

The Hunger of Those Who Built It — Wendy Waring (Stelliform Press)

In a near-future Paris reshaped by climate urgency, environmental engineer Diane Griffith draws on innovations in vertical agriculture to help design an ambitious model of green urban life meant to heal both city and planet. As the project transforms Paris’s historic core, unanswered questions arise – about care, responsibility, and what sustainable progress truly requires. The search for her missing activist sister forces Diane to engage with those questions.

Told alongside the future perspective of her niece Lou, who must live with and fight within Diane’s legacy, The Hunger of Those Who Built It asks who gets to inherit tomorrow’s utopia.

September 17, 2026 • Novel • Solarpunk

Fold Catastrophes — Peter Watts (Tachyon Publications)

Science fiction award-winner, flesh-eating-bacteria survivor, and somewhat questionably convicted felon Peter Watts returns with this long-awaited short fiction collection. Including an unpublished work, Watts posits unlimited brain-computer interfaces, the possibility of life existing inside stars, the hacking of human behavior, and ecological collapse. (Also, the healing power of revenge.)

What if a weaponized water supply reprograms pattern recognition in the brain, provoking violent rage at the sight of the Google logo. Or an accidental hive-mind creates a global agenda to resurrect itself in the scant seconds between its emergence and dissolution? A steroidal jump gate-building ship attempts to survive passage through a red-giant sun by hiding inside an ice-giant planet. When something is trying to colonize the sun, humans try to stop it. Spoiler alert: Nobody comes off very well.

In his newest short fiction, alongside an introduction by Richard K. Morgan, Watts (The Freeze-Frame Revolution) reserves whatever hope he has for whatever comes after humans. In light of his stories and recent events, it is difficult to fault that assessment.

September 22, 2026 • Short Story Collection • Science Fiction

Buzzard — Inez Ray (Bindery Books)

In 2086, corporations are monitoring fertility. Abortion is illegal. And the last woman alive who can perform the procedure is in hiding.

Seven years ago, midwife Mae Bastet was arrested for infanticide in the fractious Arizona Territory for providing health care to women in need. She was torn from her sons and sent to Buzzard—an experimental private prison deep in the Sonoran Desert, run by the paramilitary corporation Obsityan.

Desperate to reunite her family, Mae tries to keep her head down, swallow her prison-issued hormone supplements, and do her job as a glorified school nurse to Obsityan’s army of teenage drone pilots. But when mysterious, improbable pregnancies begin cropping up in her charges, she uncovers a web of secrets that has the power to destroy Obsityan. Mae must choose: stay complicit in Obsityan’s crimes or hold fast to her midwife principles and risk never seeing her sons again.

Buzzard is a ferocious dystopian debut that traces the possible trajectory of our current political and technological reality—and the power of our deepest human bonds.

September 22, 2026 • Novel • Dystopian

We, the Drowning — Lindz McLeod (Android Press)

Are you parched or flooded?

In a world divided between drought and drowning, one young man must decide what it truly means to live, and what humanity owes the Earth that sustains it.

Cole has spent his entire life among the Parched, a desert community clinging to survival in a world torn by climate disaster and collapse. The Parched conserve every drop, mend what can be saved, and believe humanity’s only hope is resisting extinction.

Then a girl washes ashore… alive. She belongs to the Flooded, a religious movement where members believe humanity must drown to give the planet a second chance, and so sacrifice themselves to the sea. For some unknown reason, the Flooded have been kidnapping people of the Parched tribes.

When the leader of Cole’s tribe asks him to question the girl, he learns things that turn his life upside down. Now, whispers of war ripple through the Parched villages, and leaders speak of wiping out the Flooded entirely.

With his world fractured and desperate for answers, Cole sets out alone across hostile territory toward the Flooded lands. What he finds there will force him to question everything he’s ever known.

What if humanity can’t be saved? What if the Flooded aren’t a dangerous cult? What if survival isn’t the same as salvation?

September 29, 2026 • Novella • Post Apocalyptic Climate Fiction

Stellar Parallax — Edited by A.J. Van Belle (Inked in Gray Press)

In the end, perseverence.

A mother introduces her child to an orchard aboard a space station.

On a floating city, a boy risks everything to save his baby sister.

When the police escort an aging Puerto Rican man off his front porch, he expects to be shot. Instead, he finds himself on the way to a floating island where he may find peace after all.

These and 17 other stories explore the role of hope at the extremes of human experience. The writers have imagined a variety of dangerous futures, and they’ve also imagined connection and compassion guiding the people of the future.

In twisted underground passageways, in the desolation of space, and on barren landscapes where the fate of a few seeds could make or break the future, the protagonists of Stellar Parallax: Human Hope in Grimdark Worlds find glimmers of light in darkness. Together, these stories ask: when we can’t count on our world to be rational or safe, where does that leave us? And what can we build when everything we once trusted falls apart?

September 29, 2026 • Anthology • Hopepunk