When augmented sniper Caelis Thorne refuses to kill a supersoldier, he ends one war—just in time to help lead a ragtag crew against a reality-erasing alien Signal, before it consumes humanity… and the woman he couldn’t bring himself to kill.
Harley works for the Semantic Lexicon and Universal Glossary (S.L.U.G.) service as it's unofficial "Queen of the Slimenac," responsible for registering the universe's slimiest and stinkiest entries into SLUG. When she wins an all expenses paid interstellar cruise, she can't wait to relax...except her emotional-support AI Rosy has other plans. Joining up with another AI, Rosy is going to get Harley to fall in love at all costs.
Phione is one of the latest Verdancers: adventurers who brave the dungeon Coveria for a chance to have their home of Hillport rejoin the rest of the world. After coming of age, Verdancers make a pact with a god to receive magical power. So what is Phione supposed to do now that her powers are broken and the goddess who formed the pact is the same one that betrayed Phione's mother?
After humans burned the sky with nuclear winter, survival meant cobbling together broken technologies to transform the few that are left into technologically augmented mermaids. Detective Vira patrols the waters below, keeping the last bunch of humanity from killing themselves. Some days she's actually successful. Other days she drowns it all back with alcohol and cigars in an air-pocket bar at the bottom of the sea.