Scifi

Echo in the Zhenhai Spine Pearl Ring Shipyard runs on algorithms, duct tape, and contractors no one bothers to log—until one of those ghost-processes wakes up. When a quiet ... → Ghost Current On the failing edges of the Kovalev Ring, Miroslava Markovska keeps broken bulkheads—and desperate people—alive under a regime that measures every ... → Twelve Hours on the Lazaretum I was hired to fix problems that officially didn’t exist—until a stamped chit and a twelve-hour leash pulled me into Civitas‑IX’s Quarantine Pontoo... → The Quiet Bloom of Prithvi-Parikrama On the aging orbital habitat Prithvi‑Parikrama, anomalous growths and ghost‑signatures in the life‑support systems hint at a new, uninvited ecology... → Ice Lattice Protocol On Haneul-47, a routine drill anomaly in Sector 7 uncovers something alive threaded through the ancient ice. As corporate pressure collides with a ... → Witnessed Work On the generation ship Kamen Prospect, a small fault in Cold Vaults C-3 turns a wake cycle into a quiet disaster that won’t stay contained. Katarin... → The Salvage Paradox When refugee salvager Lucina Corvax discovers a pocket dimension laboratory frozen in time, she expects to find valuable equipment—not a living wit... → The Quarantine Clause On Skjoldheim, mornings are all routine until two dockhands walk into Medbay with a rash that looks like a chart of somewhere no one has named. A p... → Debt Orbit On the fringes of Nanyue Lunar Freeport, shuttle captain Liang Weiming takes on a quiet side job that could finally buy his crew out of crushing co... → The Gap Between Levels In the vertical sprawl of Tianming Corporate Arcology, logistics coordinator Hao-wen discovers that three high-value containers have vanished into ... → Varuna Node Deep beneath a gas giant’s storm-wracked clouds, the Varuna Singularity Containment Core hums with weaponized gravity and corporate ambition. When ... → Mjollnir Burn When a routine shift on the Mjollnir Fabrication Ring goes sideways, Eirik Halvorsson stumbles into a conspiracy that could crack Edda Vale Colony ... → Haneul Gate: Echoes in the Transit Veil At Haneul Gate, humanity’s glittering first-contact embassy, every orbit is scripted—until a junior liaison hears a signal she was never meant to r... → Contamination Protocol Station medic Han tracks radiation through Tianzhou-7's corridors with professional precision—until the contamination reaches the woman she loves. ... → Between the Station's Ribs On Relay Station Taeyang-7, Ji-won survives in the margins—translating contraband manifests, sleeping in cargo bays, existing beneath the notice of... → Carrier Wave → The Inversion Point When medical officer Reiko Tanaka discovers that temporal displacement is slowly killing her crew, she must unravel a conspiracy of silence within ... → The Reflection in the Glass → Vapor Trails in the Dark When Ambassador Amira Zain turns up dead in the overcrowded Al-Buraq Fuel Depot, neural-augmented investigator Noor Al-Qasim can process a thousand... → Edict of the Airlock My clearance expires in minutes, and Praetorium-IX’s laws rewrite themselves faster than I can breathe. When LEGATUS flags my voice as sedition and... →