2026 Story World Award

When a world-famous football star is thrown 72 years into a dystopian future where AI replicas of sports legends control the masses, he must master a rare mental ability to challenge a system built in his own image—and reclaim humanity

The Weather Watcher is an adult science fantasy where a gruff gun-for-hire who can’t pull the trigger must outwit a jealous sheriff brother, navigate madness-inducing mists, and outplay the keeper of an ancient, buried city to not only protect his way of life and power to manipulate weather, but to...

His death was only the beginning. Awakening in a crypt as the immortal Daeron, he must investigate his own assassination to save his brother and uncover a plot that threatens the world. To succeed, however, he must first unlock the deadly secret that cost him his life.

At dawn, over a fresh cup of black coffee, a journalist in Paradox, New York, meditatively enters a postcard in answer to an urgent plea, and embarks upon a perilous rescue in the Adirondack Wild Forests that are alive with fantastic beasts, imaginary creatures and cryptids, where consciousness...

In war-ruled Vael, sixteen-year-old Jorium has trained his whole life to kill, but when he alone can wield the forbidden Death Arts, the power sickens him. As his people face ruin, he must balance life and death while falling for a Life Artist boy he is certain hates him.