System Dystopian

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, ...

“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 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...

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 ...

Ten years after defeating the Architect and bringing down the System, Sloan Park believed his battle days were over. Settled in a mountain cottage with Sara, he traded godhood for peace, splitting firewood instead of enemy skulls and finding quiet satisfaction in an ordinary life. But when Luther appears with news of a Category Red alert, Sloan's retirement shatters. A new threat tears through Zone 7, something worse than Rifts, spawning white-helmeted Harvesters that transform reality itself. And they're calling Sloan's name.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 man known as Dewey Decimal works in a near-future Manhattan decimated by terrorism and plague, running dirty operations for the crooked Senator Howard - though he’d prefer to spend his time among the stacks at his beloved New York Public Library. When Dewey is tasked with disrupting unrest from a growing group of outcast civilians, and simultaneously given the assignment of protecting a pair of Saudi royals, he is forced to look within and make some impossible choices - and it will put him at odds with his benefactor and the powers that be....

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...

A psychology guide. A cosmic philosophy. An anti-humanist dystopia. The Human and the Cosmos is a three-in-one work connecting the human mind, the structure of the universe, and the future of civilization. Book One – The Mind’s Operating System Explores the mind as a system of codes, memory, and consciousness—offering tools for self-awareness without quick-fix promises. Book Two – The Big Crunch Presents a cyclical model of existence, where time, energy, and consciousness operate through a unified principle: Move, Unite, Fragment. Book Three – Children of Jotunheim A dystopian ...

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...

Not for John Lee. His search for answers for the System Quest has taken him deep into the Forbidden Zone, into the very arms of his enemies. He's betrayed family and friends and been betrayed in turn. The most powerful human in the System has come to the final leg of his journey. And still, he has no idea if what he will find will fill the burning need within him. For the Redeemer of the Dead will not stop, until the cries of the lost and the sacrificed are answered.

In a megacity where your heartbeat is a revenue stream and your death is just content, a burned-out street medic is about to glitch the machine that owns her. Elisa Chan patches up the dying in the gutters of the sprawl, chasing the finder's fee that keeps her clinic's lights on for one more month. Her partner Leo watches from the edge of the light, cigarette unlit, quietly doing the math on why saving anyone down here is bad odds. In her ear, Goldie — her ad-supported AI — murmurs that she's doing great, then blows out into a neon scream trying to sell her a subscription while a man ...

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 ...

Two timelines. Two women. One future that hangs in the balance. Book 1 in the From Here to There series In the volatile world of the mid-2020s, systems are beginning to strain in ways most people barely notice. Infrastructure is stressed. AI is accelerating. And beneath the surface of an ordinary American city, a mystery is unfolding that could change far more than anyone expects. Forty years later, in 2065, a very different society has taken shape — more resilient, more human-centered, and quietly more hopeful. But the path between these two worlds was anything but smooth. Catapult ...

A brilliantly imagined literary debut of love, despair, and two people’s search for belonging in a world literally spinning out of control. The acceleration of Earth’s spin begins gradually. At first, days are just a few seconds shorter than normal. Awareness of the mysterious phenomenon...

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 ...

In a city built on the illusion of perfection, the most dangerous thing you can do is look down. Calder Renne was raised in the sterile, optimized heights of Linden Spire, insulated from the toxic smog and brutal reality of the undercity. But when he is drained of his credits in a highly sophisticated virtual scam, the trail leads him out of his gilded cage and straight into the lawless dead zones. Maren Solis is a victim of industrialized identity theft. For eighteen months, a rogue digital syndicate has been using her stolen face to con wealthy upper-citizens. Trapped on Sublevel Nine, ...