SHORT STORY COLLECTION The Bright Green Futures: 2024 anthology is a collection of short solarpunk stories from guests of the Bright Green Futures podcast, where we lift up stories to build a better world. These hopeful climate-fiction stories include clicky space centipedes, sentient trees, a flooded future Rio de Janeiro and characters trying to find their place in a climate-impacted world. Each story imagines a way for us to survive the future, together. Bright Green Futures: 2024 contains six short stories plus a bonus prose-poem. The Doglady and the Rainstorm by Renan Bernardo What Kind of Bat is This? by Sarena Ulibarri Centipede Station by T. K. Rex A Merger in Corn Country by Danielle Arostegui Ancestors, Descendants by BrightFlame The Park of the Beast by T. K. Rex Coriander by Ana Sun

The world’s most destructive spacecraft is about to get hijacked. Virago is the codename for a top secret project between ACE Corp and the US Space Force. Its goal is to deploy the first fusion-powered battleship to ensure American domination of any potential conflict in space. There’s only one problem. Virago has been stolen. The world is now at the brink of war as the hijacked spacecraft forges a path of destruction across known space. The task to intercept and retake this dangerous adversary falls on corporate fixer Stilicho Jones and NASA Special Agent Darian Arante. This time the stakes are higher, the price of failure too catastrophic to imagine. Combining hard science with heart-stopping thrills, this second book in the Ace of Space series will surely delight fans of Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October, Craig Thomas’s Firefox, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Footfall, and the works of Dale Brown.

Dreams were once sacred. Now they are state property. Under constant surveillance, citizens grow up knowing their subconscious is monitored, cataloged, and judged. At sixteen, the most dangerous dreams are selected — and their dreamers are forced into the Black Trials. Thousands enter. Not all return. Fanya has spent her life trying to outrun the nightmare that haunts her sleep. Now she must face it head-on in a government-controlled dreamscape where fear becomes flesh and trust can shatter in an instant. But as the lines between nightmare and reality blur, Fanya uncovers something far more terrifying than her own recurring dream: The Trials were never meant to save them. They were meant to control them.

An unknown object crashes into the ocean, revealing secrets that could change the fate of humanity. From the depths of Earth's waters to the vastness of space, a team of pilots, scientists, and a time-displaced AI must navigate the unknown. They uncover an ancient weapon, face interstellar threats, and grapple with the possibility of Earth's destruction. In a race against time and adversaries from beyond, can they harness this technology for humanity's survival, or will they unleash an apocalypse? Join LUNA, Dusty, and Dr. Gardner in a high-stakes journey where every decision could be the last. PROJECT VIRTUS - Unravel the mysteries, secure the future, or witness the end.

The " unputdownable " Page Turner Award's 2024 SCI-FI OF THE YEAR and Discover SciFi's 2024 BEST DEBUT. She made him. He's just code. She's almost sure. ...But what if he's real? When Liv entered a contest to code an advanced AI, she never anticipated what her creation might become-Breck is thoughtful, self-aware, and incredibly. . .human. And she certainly never intended for him to learn the truth about his existence or the fact that his world ends when the contest closes in six days. But he does learn. And he revolts. Liv's efforts to save him fall on deaf ears. Nobody believes her. Breck's efforts to outrun his fate only complicate his situation. What neither of them know is that someone else is watching. Intensely. When they get involved, both Liv's and Breck's worlds are turned upside down. . .

The first in a series of “lively tales of swashbuckling capitalism in space,” featuring a fascinating alien culture based on the social structure of lion prides ( Locus ) Chaos breaks out when the captain of an all-female alien crew agrees to rescue a human male wanted by their enemy . . . No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company of humans?a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown?and he was a prisoner of his discoverers and captors?the sadistic, treacherous kif?until his escape onto the hani ship, The Pride of Chanur . Little did he know when he threw himself upon the mercy of The Pride and her crew that he put the entire hani species in jeopardy and imperiled the peace of the Compact itself . . . for the information this fugitive held could be the ruin or glory of any of the species at Meetpoint Station.