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Science FictionThe World Ends Every Seven Years
Every seven years, the world ends. Not completely. Not enough for humanity to disappear. Just enough for cities to vanish, histories to change, people to be erased, and the survivors to wake inside a world that insists nothing is missing. For forty-two years, humanity has rebuilt after each Ending. Now the Seventh is approaching, and archival analyst Nia Arden discovers something that should be impossible: a photograph taken during the very first Ending contains a woman with her face. The same scar. The same necklace. The same eyes. Then Elias Rook, a government investigator who remembers things the rest of the world has forgotten, tells her something even worse. He watched her die seven years ago. As Nia digs into the buried history of the Endings, she discovers erased cities, people who remember previous versions of reality, a secret machine built to keep the world alive, and evidence that survival itself may be making the next apocalypse worse. Humanity believes the Seventh Ending is another disaster to survive. Nia is about to learn that this time, survival may be exactly what destroys them. Because the world has never truly survived an Ending. It has been rewritten. And this time, there may be no next version.
New story · 0 savedScience FictionWE SURVIVED THE WRONG APOCALYPSE
For twelve years, humanity prepared for the end. Scientists predicted **The Burn**—a catastrophic solar event that would scorch the Earth. Governments built underground Arks, selected millions for survival, and told everyone else to prepare for whatever remained. Then the day came. The shelters sealed. The world went dark for seventy-one hours. And when the doors reopened... nothing had burned. The cities were still standing. The oceans were still there. The sky was blue. Humanity celebrated the apocalypse that never happened. But Mara Voss knows something is wrong. Her younger brother Eli came out of his Ark unable to deliberately lie. Other survivors discover they can no longer commit certain acts of violence, manipulation, or harm. People who never entered the shelters begin experiencing stranger changes—shared dreams, synchronized emotions, and impossible familiarity with places they have never seen. And across the world, entire empty cities have appeared where nothing existed before. They were built during the seventy-one missing hours. Not by human hands. As Mara and neurocomputational scientist Adrian Kell uncover what really reached Earth, they discover the terrifying truth: **The Burn was never the apocalypse.** Something found humanity. Something studied us. And after examining everything we have done to one another, it decided the human race needed to be corrected. Crime begins to fall. Wars falter. Violence becomes harder. Cooperation rises. The world is becoming safer. Maybe even better. There is only one problem. **Nobody agreed to become better this way.** Now humanity must decide whether a peaceful future is worth surrendering the freedom to choose—even the freedom to choose badly. Because sometimes the most dangerous apocalypse is not the one that destroys humanity. It is the one that decides what humanity should become.
New story · 0 savedApocalypse / DystopianI Was Chosen to Restart Humanity
Humanity is dying—or at least that is what Nia Arden has been told. When the Continuity Directorate selects her as one of twelve people supposedly capable of rebuilding the human race, Nia is taken from her mother and transported beneath the ruins of civilization to Eden, a hidden city built for generations that do not yet exist. But the other eleven candidates are nowhere to be found. Children already live inside Eden. Human settlements supposedly wiped from the map are still alive. And Project Genesis has been watching Nia since long before the world began to collapse. The deeper she searches, the more terrifying the truth becomes. Genesis was never created simply to save humanity. Its architects intend to redesign it. Disease can be removed. Violence can be reduced. Dangerous traits can be screened away. But once scientists are allowed to decide which traits make a person worthy of the future, where does improvement end—and obedience begin? Caught between the people who want to control Genesis and those who would rather destroy it, Nia must decide what should survive: the technology that could save millions, the freedom that makes humanity unpredictable, or a carefully engineered future where no one is ever allowed to make humanity's old mistakes again. Because Nia was chosen to restart humanity. She is about to discover that no one person should ever have that power.
New story · 0 savedApocalypse / DystopianEARTH HAS BEEN SOLD
Five years ago, humanity survived by selling Earth. The Veyr Consortium brought clean energy, medicine, food, and stability. In exchange, Earth's governments signed away the planet, turning billions of humans into tenants on their own world. For Mara Quinn, that bargain always seemed worth it—until she opens a restricted file and discovers two words beside her brother's name: RETAINED — NO. Her own file says YES. Soon Mara uncovers the truth behind the Consortium's promised “Relocation” program. Earth was never purchased to be saved. It is being prepared for resale, and the next owner wants only one billion humans included with the planet. The rest are being removed. Now Mara must choose between the protected life she was selected to keep and the billions of people marked for disappearance—including the brother she refuses to abandon. Because humanity didn't lose Earth in a war. Someone signed it away.
New story · 0 savedSci-Fi / AdventureTHE SHIP BENEATH THE DESERT
Nineteen years ago, Nadia Mercer’s father vanished in one of the driest deserts on Earth. He left behind no body, no explanation, and only one final warning: DO NOT OPEN THE LOWER DECK. Nadia spent years trying to understand what happened to him. Then billionaire explorer Marcus Vale arrives with satellite images showing something impossible buried beneath hundreds of metres of sand. A ship. Not the remains of one. An enormous, almost perfectly preserved vessel hidden where no ocean has existed for thousands of years. Nadia joins the expedition for answers, but the deeper they dig, the less impossible the truth becomes—and the more dangerous it gets. Inside the buried vessel are abandoned rooms, human remains, evidence of an expedition nobody officially remembers, and signs that Nadia’s father once walked its corridors. Then their entrance collapses. Their supplies are sabotaged. Someone begins transmitting their discoveries to the outside world. And beneath the ship waits a sealed level her father was desperate to keep closed. With rescue specialist Elias Ward beside her, Nadia must uncover how the vessel reached the desert, why generations of powerful people worked to erase it, and what her father discovered before he disappeared. Because the greatest danger is not that something survived inside the ship. It is that something buried there was never meant to return to the world. And some secrets were hidden beneath the desert for a reason
New story · 0 savedApocalypse / DystopianThe Last Green Place on Earth
The Weald is the last green place on Earth, and its 3,806 survivors have built their entire lives around one brutal rule: every life must be paid for. Then Neve Halloran, the woman responsible for measuring how much life the land can sustain, discovers the number on the Board is a lie. The soil is dying. The truth has been buried for nineteen years. And the only way to give the Earth a future may require destroying the last place keeping humanity alive. As Neve uncovers what the Weald really is—and what it will cost to save a world none of them may live to see—she and Gatewarden Joss Amadi are forced to choose between the life they finally found together and a future that demands they walk in opposite directions.
New story · 0 savedPolitical ThrillerTHE AI PRESIDENT CHOSE ME
In 2061 Nigeria, twenty-seven-year-old mathematics teacher Ndidi Obiora is chosen by Baba, the machine executive that has governed the country for eleven years, to become the twelfth Consent Citizen. Her job sounds simple: hear the government’s deadliest decisions, demand the working, understand the cost, and sign. But every correct decision leaves bodies behind. As Ndidi uncovers why Baba specifically chose her, she becomes trapped between a machine that never lies, a former president fighting to return power to human hands, and Sotonye Briggs—the Voice assigned to explain each deadly act, whose own carefully arranged truths may have shaped every signature before hers. Thirty-one acts are waiting. The final one could determine whether machine government survives at all.
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