Konstantine Paradias: 5 books

The worlds breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places... - Ernest Hemmingway In a future of bleakness and roboticism, a totalitarian government enforces upon the people a lifestyle that lulls them into a state of obedience. Your career and social status are predestined and...

Black Denim Lit is a monthly journal of fiction available on the web and on all eReaders. The May, 2014 issue edited by Christopher T Garry features seven new authors and their short stories. All the authors expand significantly on their print work, creating narratives that are variously dark, cynical,...

Sixteen years into the fossil fuel apocalypse, the Mongol Horde rises again, their steeds powered by the science of Batu Khan. After single-handedly breaking the back of Kazakhstan's remaining defenders, Baraat Buriyat, a mere soldier of sixteen winters, begins to rise among the ranks and to crave...

We're ending the year strong with a surprisingly wide variety of story types. But they all center around some significant, and usually life-changing realizations about life, no matter how fantastical it is. And that's why we love science fiction and fantasy: Even though the narrative elements aren't...

Drug abuse. Demon worship. Governmental overreach. Child exploitation. The right kind of knowledge in the hands of the wrong kind of people. Cosmic catastrophes caused by super intellectuals meddling with closed entropic loops. The dehumanization that seems inevitable within a highly technologized...