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EMERGENCE

"An imaginative... future techno-thriller."

Kirkus Reviews

"Digital enhancements rule the world in this chilling distant-future SF…great for fans of Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon and William Gibson’s Neuromancer."

—BookLife

In Phoenix, 2101, Detective Nate Wartman is supposed to solve a string of corporate murders at Arc Systems, the world’s most powerful VR company. Instead, he and his hacker partner Jane uncover something far worse: evidence that human consciousness can be copied, controlled, and erased. As rival tech giant Mee collapses into scandal and a global investigation spirals out of control, Nate learns that every lead has been manipulated by forces far above the law. Whistleblowers vanish. Digital ghosts speak. Reality starts to feel like a staged memory. To expose the truth, Nate must decide what he is willing to lose, his badge, his identity, maybe even his own mind. In a city ruled by corporations and surveillance, death is no longer the end. It is just another product.

Supernatural Thriller

HELLSCRAPER

"An entertaining, bloody, and hellish read. I highly recommend it."

—David Royce, Reedsy Discovery (4/5 stars)

"Fantastic horror… Ra’s best trick is making the office feel officey and pedantic before it becomes deadly."

—Jamie Michele, Readers’ Favorite

Brian is a financial analyst who hates his job, his boss, and the life he never chose. Then his Manhattan office building slides into Hell. Outside the windows: lava and black void. Inside: coworkers twisted into spider-headed scavengers, wolf-hybrid managers, and fire-corpses that still remember performance reviews. His overbearing boss comes back wrong. Brian kills him with a crowbar and keeps climbing. Alone except for Lia, a golden retriever left behind on the design floor, Brian fortifies, scavenges, and follows a trail of impossible doors and ancient secrets toward the top of a building that shouldn't exist. Friends wait in the dark. So does something older than the company, and far more interested in Brian than he is in surviving. Hellscraper is a dark supernatural thriller where office satire meets survival horror, and the only way out is through.

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COLD TURKEY by Elie Ra

Horror

COLD TURKEY

Barney only meant to wait two nights in a Vermont border town. Then he would pick up his girlfriend and keep driving. Viceroys has fifty-eight people, a gas station that sells baseball bats next to shotgun shells, and one piece of local advice: get out before dark.

He stays.

Cold Turkey collects four stories about people who thought they knew the deal. A runaway who walks into the wrong town. A girl who will not stay caged. A peach with a mission. A valedictorian on the best day of his life. The best and the last. Then it keeps going.

About

Elie Ra

With a Master's in Mathematics and two decades in software engineering, Elie Ra doesn't just write science fiction — he architects it. After emigrating from Ukraine in 2010, he built a career in large-scale distributed systems while writing short-form stories for most of his life.

His fiction sits where cutting-edge science meets timeless questions about consciousness, freedom, and irreversible choices. From San Francisco, he writes for readers who want their imagination challenged and their assumptions tested against futures that could actually happen.

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