Genetic Engineering

The debut standalone novel from author Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7, THREE DAYS IN APRIL is a near-future speculative thriller that marks the entry of a bright new voice into the genre. Anders Jensen is having a bad month. His roommate is a data thief, his girlfriend picks fights in bars...

The year is 2381. The place is Urban Monad 116 of the constellation Chippitts. The population of this one-thousand storey super-structure is 800,000+ and always growing. After two centuries of ruthless, selective breeding, the essence of life is to be blessworthy and to multiply; to afford one's neighbours any type of sexual fulfilment and, above all, to avoid the evil of frustration. But, within this seemingly blissful vertical world there are individuals who feel such perverse desires as a longing for privacy, a wish to descend from the heights, to walk on earth and bask in the sunshine.

When Sun-born mage Zal is called to a remote village after an explosion on a nearby mountaintop, he’s stunned at what he finds in the gaol under the town hall—the last Moon-born on the planet, apparently a rogue mage, and someone Zal is duty-bound to haul to the capital to face judgment. But although nonbinary Torian is Moon-born, they’re no mage. Rescued as an infant from the plague that wiped out the rest of their race, Torian is as much cybertronic as human, and desperate to escape their former Star-born overseers.

Sun, Moon, and Stars marries magic and science, featuring a road trip, deepening friendship, and a world where choice is the most sacred value. The books feature the continuing adventures of asexual Sun mage Zal and nonbinary cyborg Torian. In this second story, Zal and Torian finally make it to the capital, but things don't go exactly as planned...

Get the complete Cyborg Option series by Scott Moon! Follow commands or save his renegade family... He must choose. No one defies the Protectorate. They’ve got relentless cyborg assassins who never quit and never fail to take out their targets. Until one defies them by becoming a parent. Camden 1192, and ninety-nine other killers, are assigned to locate and capture the traitor. Orders specify taking the child alive, if possible. Only, there's one problem. The traitor happens to be Camden's sister, and the child, his nephew.

Former Marine Raider Max Ahlgren booked the fishing adventure of a lifetime—until a fiery plane crash strands him and his son, David, in the vast, unforgiving wilderness of northern Canada. Starving and exhausted, they stumble onto a top-secret pharmaceutical compound guarded by ruthless mercenaries. Captured and imprisoned, Max and David must muster every ounce of ingenuity and grit to engineer a daring escape.

When Gren Moritz is elected head of the global government of Rivennia, he is ridiculed and isolated by others in power for his stance against the rise in genetic engineering. Following his inauguration, Gren is lured into the dark shadows of the Liffdom Lodges, a covert gambling syndicate that controls Rivennia. The Lodgers promise political backing, but it comes at a price – Gren must partake in a macabre wager. His fellow players are anxious analyst Samuel Rosendale and sharp-tongued supermodel Primula Zhang.

Beginning as an idealistic project engineer, Jurgen is recruited to OPUS to implement cutting-edge interstellar connectivity technologies. However, his optimism soon fades as he witnesses cost-cutting measures that compromise safety. When he raises concerns, his warnings are ignored, and his reputation is threatened by ‘so called’ colleagues. Disillusioned, he resigns, only to see OPUS acquired by EPIC, a company that later denies his wife access to a life-saving drug.

In a future where birth is rare and obedience is engineered, one girl becomes the wild card in a game no one fully controls. The year is 2084. Civilization hasn’t collapsed—but it’s quietly dying. Fertility rates have plummeted. Automation has replaced most human labor. Governments cling to order by any means necessary. When Jane Aldridge, the daughter of a powerful Air Force general, is offered a place in a secret neuroscience program, she doesn’t realize the procedure will do more than alter her memory. It changes her.

SOME MONSTERS ARE REAL—AND SOME SECRETS ARE DEADLY After a dragon-like attack, a paleontologist’s team ventures deep into an island jungle—only to discover the true nightmare has just begun. Deep in a Caribbean rainforest, a secret U. S. military base is hiding something terrifying. After a dragon-like creature decimates a village on the Puerto Rican island of Isla Lagarta, survivors’ claims are dismissed—until paleontologist Dr. Vikki Barnes and her scientist ex-boyfriend start digging for answers.

Carnival is the biggest event in the Eubos System, an event filled with excitement and fun, until it turned dark. With children going missing, strange mutated monsters, a deadly disease spreading, and a kidnapped scientist, someone must figure out who is behind the terrible scheme and stop him! The task is given to an eclectic group that must learn to work together, and stealth and lightning seldom do. Yet, stealth and lightning must work together to save the system.

Never compromise a principle! Stand for the right! For Charles, adventuring was a game -- exciting, fun, and glamorous -- until the stakes rose to epic proportions, threatening the lives and freedom of everyone in the entire system of planets. Now, he must lead a motley crew to save the system from a past he never knew and an ancient war that has continued on in the shadows.

What lies beyond the rip in space? Danger! Science is dangerous! When careless scientists rip open the fabric of space and release an army of genetically engineered super soldiers, the only people who can respond are a small crew of other scientists. Along with the mysterious Phantom Storm, they must find a way to save their dimension from invasion.

Stix was not designed to be a parent. She was not programmed for love, nor obligated by law or protocol to intervene. When an infant’s life is placed in her care, Stix faces a decision no system can make for her. Set within the wider universe of Heaven’s Protocol, Mother by Choice is an intimate science fiction short story that explores responsibility at its most personal scale. In a future governed by interstellar Gateways, planetary Protectors, and systems built to preserve humanity, this story focuses on a single, irreversible moment—where care becomes a choice rather than an assignment.

Former Navy SEAL Commander, Grady Carter was never given a choice. Forced into a top-secret government program, he became a bio-robotic super soldier against his will. Now, he’s escaped the clutches of the program’s sinister control, finding refuge with the enigmatic Beasts of Black Bay. But his relentless enemies are closing in, and Grady must strike first to survive. Lark, genetically engineered and raised in a secret lab, shares Grady’s thirst for justice. The illegal experiments that shaped their lives must be exposed and dismantled.