A Canticle for Leibowitz meets The Hunt for Red October in Andrew Kelly Stewart’s breakout novella We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep, about a fundamentalist order of monks who control Earth’s last nuclear submarineRemy is a Chorister, one of the chosen few rescued from the surface world and raised to sing the Hours in a choir of young boys. Remy lives with a devoted order of monks who control the Leviathan, an aging nuclear submarine that survives in the ocean’s depths. Their secret mission: to trigger the Second Coming when the time is right, ready to unleash its final, terrible weapon.But Remy has a secret too—she’s the only girl onboard. It is because of this secret that the sub’s dying caplain gifts her with the missile’s launch key, saying that it is her duty to keep it safe. Safety, however, is not the sub’s priority, especially when the new caplain has his own ideas about the Leviathan’s mission. Remy’s own perspective is about to shift drastically when a surface-dweller is captured during a raid, and she learns the truth about the world.At once lyrical and page-turning, We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep is a captivating debut from newcomer author Andrew Kelly Stewart.

Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future by the New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow.

When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next step in trying to help their future child get a “leg up” in a competitive world. But the more Sam considers the lives that his child could lead, the more he begins to question his own relationships and the choices he has made in his life.

Amor Towles’s You Have Arrived at Your Destination is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.

Рассказ Роберта Силверберга в переводе В. Вебера.

В книге рассказано о людях, занесённых в «Книгу Памяти автора». Из Сталинграда и Сибири эпохи 1941-1945 гг. Текст посвящён 80-летию Победы над немецким фашизмом.

The world ends for someone every day. One day it will end for everyone.

How do you survive when eye-contact can mean instant death?

Set your priorities, recite your mantra, and keep a bandanna handy.

In a world where death is only a thought away, society has collapsed and seven survivors shelter together in a basement stronghold. Each haunted by a troubled past, they struggle through their private purgatories to rebuild trust, faith, and hope for the future.

When one of them fails to return from a foraging expedition and a stranger arrives in their makeshift sanctuary, the group is forced to confront its fragile equilibrium.

Is the newcomer a saving grace or an angel of death?

Based on a short film of the same name, the first novella by Carl A.S. Bystrom mixes apocalyptic horror and grim mystery into a labyrinth of choices made in the face of death.