System Dystopian

The System arrived. Humanity fell. Oscar just wanted to build a better toaster. When the Galactic Integration transformed Earth into a ruthless tutorial zone for the wider universe, billions perished. Monsters roam the ruined streets of Seattle, and the survivors are busy forming guilds, claiming combat classes, and fighting over mana crystals. Oscar didn’t get a combat class. Thanks to his obsession with fixing broken electronics when the System dropped, he was assigned the lowest-tier crafting class available: Junkmancer. Armed with a rusty wrench, a sarcastic System interface, and the ...

“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...

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.

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.

From one of science fiction's most powerful voices comes Aurora, the incredible story of humankind's first voyage beyond the solar system. "This is hard SF the way it's mean to be written: technical, scientific, with big ideas and a fully realized society." -Booklist Our voyage from Earth began...

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.

The apocalypse plunged the world into an eternal winter. And somehow, that was only the beginning. People Awakened with incredible powers. Some could breathe fire, control lightning, or fight monsters with their bare hands. But those who failed to Awaken? They were treated as nothing more than trash in this new world. Alwyn was one of them. Or at least, that was what everyone thought. Not until Alwyn realized that the beasts were strangely drawn to him. Not until he discovered that he could tame them. And definitely not until he found out that he might just be the world's first Beast Master...

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 ...

They don't execute rebels anymore—they broadcast them. Rhea Schwartz never wanted to start a rebellion. She just wanted to survive. In a near-future America where humiliation is the country's favorite entertainment, desperate people compete on national television for a chance at fame and fortune. Winners become celebrities. Losers are stripped and humiliated before millions—sometimes by the very people who once made their lives miserable. Former teachers. Childhood bullies. Old enemies. The Network knows their pasts. And exactly how to use them. Rhea enters the competition to save her ...

Winning the city was the easy part. Keeping it is going to take a lot more duct tape. Oscar has officially claimed the Apex Forge. As the new Administrator, he’s got a throne made of welded mech-parts, a snarky AI integrated into the mainframe, and a Paladin acting as his head of security. There’s just one problem: his junk-virus hack saved their lives, but it completely fried the city's supply chains. The Forge is out of raw materials, and the life-support systems are ticking down. Before Oscar can even allocate his new stat points to fix the mess, the Deep Network comes online. The ...

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 ...

His crew left him to burn in a collapsing dungeon. The debt they left him with was worse. Nathan Cross has spent three years as a mule: the extractor who carries the packs, stands behind the shields, and never gets a card of his own. He owes the Ironfang Syndicate 120,000 scrip, inherited from a dead father, at interest that grows faster than he can pay. So when his crew decides he's worth more as a "field loss" than alive, they leave him in the Ash Pit as it falls apart. He doesn't die. Instead he awakens a class nobody has ever seen: Soul-Siphon Tactician. He can drain the dying, steal ...

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...

Iris is used to knowing when she'll die, but she has no idea how to live—until the clock stops ticking—in the first book of a pulse-pounding sci-fi series. The Society knows when its citizens are going to die and imprints the date on their arms at birth. Iris Levine was raised to fight back...

When the world ended, everyone else grabbed a weapon. Jonah reached for a pan. The System came on an ordinary Tuesday. By nightfall the sky had gone grey, the dead were up and walking, and every survivor carried a class and a stat sheet built for one thing: killing. Jonah's class was Hearthkeeper. No combat skills, no magic to speak of, just a battered diner, a hot grill, and a quiet gift that turns an honest meal into the scarcest resource left alive. Warmth that closes wounds, steadies panicked strangers, and holds a person together when the cold starts hollowing them out from within. So ...

He survived the wastes. He built a sanctuary. Now, Oscar is taking his rusted empire to the global stage. Summoned to a high-stakes summit in Geneva, Oscar leaves the safety of the Apex Forge to face the Global Council—a ruling elite obsessed with pristine perfection and absolute control. But Oscar has no intention of playing by their rules or bowing to their demands. At the helm of the Sovereign’s Wake, a colossal, custom-forged dreadnought, Oscar and his elite strike team plunge into the dark, monster-infested depths of the trans-oceanic tunnels. The Council expects a compliant, ...

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 ...

Book 2 does not simmer—it ignites. In the political thriller story line, the Red President moves to tear the Blue Society out of the Capitol by the root, but at what cost? Across the Union, states choose sides—Blue versus Red. Freedoms that once seemed permanent are quietly removed. Hank Williamson and his Red militia have finished their basement meetings. These patriots have had enough, and one of their own has been taken. They have made their decision, and it includes not going quietly into the night. Matt Elderon, cattle rancher, is essentially arrested by the Blue Society of Unity ...