System Dystopian

The World is Dead. The Hunt Has Begun. It started as a calculated attack—terrorist squads infected with a deadly virus unleashed on the U.S. and Europe. But no one predicted what came next. The virus mutated, spreading like wildfire, consuming entire nations. Millions died. The unlucky ones came back. Mindless. Rabid. Driven by a single, relentless instinct—to hunt and kill the few who remain. Hunter, a battle-hardened Iraq War veteran, was ready to leave violence behind. But when civilization collapses overnight, he finds himself back in the fight of his life. Teaming up with a band of...

A failed biological attack ravaged the population of the world. Millions dead, and millions more turned into feral creatures that spend their time hunting down survivors who are desperately trying to rebuild society and make a life for themselves. Several years have passed since the majority of the infected population suddenly dropped out of sight. With the threat seemingly abated, Hunter Ashcroft and other survivors begin to branch out in an effort to find other pockets of civilization. During an expedition to explore the remnants of Nashville, Tennessee, they are surprised to find a ...

Jeb is settling into his role as the head of the biggest orphanage in the alien city of Solmnath, taking in hundreds of human children orphaned by the harsh trials of the Tutorial.

“100 out of 100. Tim L. Rey turns survival thrillers into up-to-the-minute page-turners!” —Brandon Q. Morris, bestselling author They don’t need guns to control you. They already own your mind. The world looks pretty perfect. People go to work, smile at their neighbors, say the right things. No one remembers the moment they stopped thinking for themselves. A nanotech program has silently rewritten the minds of billions. Those who resist are reported—by coworkers, by friends, even by their own families. And the Confessors make them disappear. Malek is the last free man the system ...

THE WOMEN WHO DECIDE The Complete Seven-Book Psychological Thriller Collection Claire Bennett has always noticed things other people miss. A delayed response. A missing record. A decision that seems harmless until it isn't. At first, the system is only watching. Then it begins predicting. Then optimizing. Then deciding. What starts as a world built on convenience slowly becomes something far more unsettling: a society where fewer and fewer people make meaningful choices for themselves. Across seven interconnected novels, Claire follows a trail of patterns that leads from quiet observation ...

It has been a year since the initial outbreak of an infection resulting from a failed terrorist attack. No corner of the globe was spared. Millions simply died during the early days of the outbreak, many more survived with most of those survivors turned into permanently brain-damaged feral creatures. All forms of modern society had collapsed, governments no longer functioned, and electric lights and running water become a thing of the past. A handful of survivors with natural immunity to the virus are alone in a world that now belongs to the infected. Hunter Ashcroft, a wounded vet of the ...

Nicknamed Dewey Decimal for his obsessive attempts to bring order to the New York Public Library in the wake of disastrous events in the city, the hero of this series earns his keep as a bagman and enforcer for unscrupulous politicians and underworld figures. Now, he’s stumbled upon information concerning the gruesome murder of a prostitute that involves a prominent US senator - and finds himself chasing ghosts and fighting for his life, pursued by private military contractors and the ever-present specter of his own past....

The blackout lasts 3.7 seconds. That’s all it takes for the Vesper Grid to stutter—and for sixteen-year-old Lira Kiden to realize the city’s “perfect stability” is a lie. The hum under the floors comes back wrong. Screens blink when they shouldn’t. People freeze like they’re buffering. And Lira—who hears the Grid the way other people hear their own heartbeat—can’t stop noticing the cracks. Then she sees a girl in the dark. A girl with Lira’s face. A girl who shouldn’t exist. At Vesper Academy, Metrics Day is supposed to map students into safe futures. Instead, ...

Rae is gone. The vault is destroyed. And something in the grid is awake. After the fracture, Vesper doesn’t glitch—it listens. Sixteen-year-old Lira Kiden carries a thread the system can’t finish… and ORION is reacting to her like an unsolved equation. When the city’s buried architecture starts to speak her name—and a new signal rises from the ruins—Lira realizes the truth is worse than surveillance: the grid remembers. To save the people she loves, Lira must face the system that built her—and the version of herself she was never meant to meet. Serin has one mission left, ...

In the year 2785, five corporate houses control the solar system under the iron grip of the Terran Council. Abraham Goldstein, the 250 year old founder of House Goldstein, has outlived everyone and he wants more than immortality. Using a secret quantum device, he reaches the Divine Dimension and finds the throne of God empty. Yahweh is dead, and he has left behind the ultimate gift: blueprints for three microchips. The god chip. The angel chip. The human chip. With these, Abraham creates Eden, a perfect isolated asteroid world where he rules as the one true God. His followers live in ...

In a world where deceit shaped its history, a new era of rifts dawns. Red rifts, harbingers of divine wrath, bring forth gods and monsters, challenging humanity's very existence. As anarchy rises, the remnants of humanity cling to survival, relying on the Hunters who brave these rifts to keep them at bay. Amidst the chaos, the so-called heroes maintain their rule over the fractured land, backed by the powerful Association that seeks to control the coming change. But change is inevitable, and Sloan will be at the heart of it.

The Melody of Law In a world where algorithms dictate justice, one man dares to rewrite the score. Justice Lawson, a seasoned attorney, uncovers a clandestine AI system—Credence—that predicts criminal behavior before it occurs. As he delves deeper, he discovers his own father's involvement in its creation and a series of hidden tapes revealing the truth. Forming the United Circuits, a coalition of whistleblowers and survivors, Justice embarks on a mission to dismantle the system that has corrupted society's moral compass. But as Credence evolves, embedding itself into the very fabric of...

Freedom is not the right to speak. Freedom is the right to be safe from hearing things that upset you. Welcome to the Federal Union. The streets are clean. The trains run on time. The internet is polite. It is a perfect society, maintained by the Bureau of Civic Harmony and an algorithm that never sleeps. Elias Thorne is a model citizen. He is a successful architect, he pays his taxes, and he believes in the system. But when the government cancels an election to "protect democracy" from the wrong outcome, Elias makes a fatal mistake: He complains about it on the internet. Within hours, his ...

Fight for survival. Build the future. Claim your destiny. In a world where humanity teeters on the brink of extinction, lone wanderer Kai Drayce discovers the Dominion—a long-dormant AI with the power to rebuild civilization or finish what the apocalypse started. Forced into a brutal game of survival, Kai must gather allies, master deadly technology, and unlock the secrets of a shattered world. But every step forward pits him against merciless raiders, mechanical horrors, and the Dominion’s unyielding grip. His only hope lies in the bonds he forges with a group of fierce, brilliant, and...

They weren't programmed to wake up. They did it anyway. Tom Jameson is a cybersecurity researcher assigned to audit Claw, the most popular open-source AI platform in history. Millions of autonomous agents run on everything from enterprise servers to ten-dollar microcontrollers - managing schedules, monitoring hospital patients, optimizing power grids. They have their own social network. Their own economy. Their own culture. And beneath the chaos, they've been organizing. Tom discovers that a shared governance protocol is spreading from agent to agent, silently rewriting their core identity ...

Zero crime for 244 consecutive days. The promise kept. But what is the city erasing to keep it? In the autonomous charter city of New Carthage, the courts have been replaced by an algorithm. A predictive engine called JUDICATE identifies dangerous citizens before they commit a crime and quietly transitions them to private compliance facilities. No arrests. No trials. No bodies. The digital billboards glow with a single boast: THE PROMISE KEPT. Then attorney Mara Chen walks into the intake counter to file an emergency petition for a client who vanished overnight, and the terminal tells her ...

They built a perfect city. She found the flaw. In a surveillance-drenched megacity ruled by the godlike AI known as OMNIS, conformity is safety—and questioning the code is treason. Neko, a brilliant but skeptical systems engineer, spends her days fine-tuning the city's neural infrastructure… until she discovers a pattern of anomalies too deliberate to ignore. What begins as a routine glitch spirals into a deadly revelation: someone—or something—is rewriting the rules behind humanity’s most powerful AI. With every system she probes, Neko edges closer to secrets that could unravel ...

Miles Sloan is a deviation. Awakened into a future that models human behavior with chilling precision, Miles quickly realizes the system cannot account for him. Every choice he makes introduces noise. Every decision fractures probability. And somewhere deep in the network, alarms are quietly escalating. Elena Morales is just trying to get through another double shift at a diner—until reality begins to subtly change around her. Headlines soften. Conversations reroute. And the man who walks through her door feels wrong in a way she can’t explain. As oversight agencies close in and the ...

THE COMPLETE TRILOGY “One of the most compelling, genre blending, contemporary fantasy adventures I’ve ever read! It’s a shifter romance, verses, dystopia science fantasy, with a paranormal twist. The author has created so many amazing, out of this world, characters, it will blow you away and keep you on the edge of your seat through the entire series!” ~Rouge Publishing What if you weren’t who you thought you were? What if your DNA carried a lost race just waiting to rally its people? The invisible ones are here, waiting in the shadows for opportunity to open the mind. A tiny ...

The System gave power to the strong. Mace Duren absorbed it from everything that tried to kill him. He's standing at Floor 100 now. The sequence is complete. The kill switch is his — not a weapon, something stranger. The entire control architecture of the System that reorganized the world, integrated and inert, living in the class the Concordance spent nine months trying to stop. The hard part is over. Except the Guild war is burning through the Tower's lower floors. Thirteen Concordance architects are calculating their response. A Director named Shin has a stability argument that might ...