2026 READERS’ FAVORITE SILVER MEDAL — SCIENCE FICTIONTALES FROM THE QUANTUM VAULTIn his debut novel, Bryan Chaffin transports us to the year 2139, where corporate combines have their own Senate seats, the surveillance-state is all-encompassing, humans live most of their lives in the Omninet, and sentient AIs are partners with the world government. It's not all bad, though. There are docbots, you never have to wait for a taxi, and if you can...

AI stories. Are you with the Resistance? Programming a better android? Homo Technologus? Or worshiping your eternal God-Emperor Machine?What does a future look like when machines can be made truly sentient?Boundary Shock Quarterly. The science fiction you want to read.

These visions explore the myriad realms where humanity and technology intersect, taking readers to distant futures where human and machine exist in uneasy symbiosis, to worlds both grim and wondrous, where survival depends on getting the upper hand.A woman's passage into a digital afterlife where nothing, not even the self, remains fixed.A hunted hacker in a surveillance-saturated future seeks revenge, only to find he's the one being played.Two stranded cy...

King Liam, First of His Name! A miner of some repute! Well, he will be when he gets back from his eight year journey to the Oort Cloud. He often fantasizes about the looks on everyone’s face when he comes waltzing back on Ceres, richer than any Belter has ever been. Oh sure, four years of isolation might have left him a little touched, but he only has four more years to go. He just has to make it to a little planetoid he's named Lucky Strike, and all his dreams will come true. What could g...

King Liam, First of His Name! A miner of some repute! Well, he will be when he gets back from his eight year journey to the Oort Cloud. He often fantasizes about the looks on everyone’s face when he comes waltzing back on Ceres, richer than any Belter has ever been. Oh sure, four years of isolation might have left him a little touched, but he only has four more years to go. He just has to make it to a little planetoid he's named Lucky Strike, and all his dreams will come true. What could g...