A nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the West has reduced much of the world to a barren wasteland. The war continues however among the scattered remains of humanity. The Western forces have recently developed "claws", which are autonomous self-replicating robots to fight on their side.
It is said that the past determines the present and the present shapes the future. What choices does the future have when today's vision of Utopia is tomorrow's Dystopia? What is the future supposed to do when living in the now is sheer misery? Maybe the future reaches back into the past and tries to correct the most egregious sources of problems.
The Rosen Bridge Chronicles is a anthology series I started last year and plan to continue adding more stories periodically. Each will be its own story, taking place in a new universe and covering different aspects of time travel theory. A brilliant but disillusioned scientist named Dr. ELena Wright, who works as a physicist for JDL Institute, has discovered a way to travel through time through a tiny rift in the fabric of reality. She, however, can only travel back 24 hours. Then one day....
Kayla and Craig are best friends in desperate need of an escape from the capitalist dystopia weighing them down. Late one night they discover a stranded time machine piloted by a cyborg, "artificial organic," named Glyph, who promises them a vacation 1000 years into the future. They set out for a getaway beyond their wildest dreams, but soon discover that a danger of exploring the future is learning more than you should about what's right around the corner when you return.
Born on a long lost outpost of humanity, that only recently was reconnected to the wider galaxy, Leonora is at the end the rope. Her body is slowly succumbing to an incurable disease when she is given a chance at... something. A mysterious Traveler is offering her a future but warns that it comes at a risk. Welcome to Circe, an aboriginal world at outskirts of the known galaxy, where strange mists hide something with the power to upend the fragile balance that preserves the civilization.
A twisted tale about life on a future Mars Colony. It's just a snippet but shows the harsh realities humans could face if a big corporation is isolated and goes unchecked from any kind of Democracy or fair governing authority.