The Shadow Relic - Science Fiction, HFY and Fantasy Tales.

The Smuggler Who Burned His Mind to Ignite Humanity’s Dawn

The taste of copper and ash never leaves your mouth in the Wastes. I'd been chewing on that particular flavor for the better part of fifteen years, ever since the…

R.Z.Rivers June 30, 2025

Dystopian Stories

Ironblood Warlord: A Nanite-Infused Mercenary’s Descent into a Cyberpunk Nightmare City Ruled by Biotech Vampires & Demon Cults

The nanites were eating me alive again. I could feel them crawling beneath my skin like a thousand metal spiders, rewriting my DNA one cell at a time. The mirror…

R.Z.Rivers June 29, 2025

Sci-Fi Stories

The Diplomat Who Saved the Galaxy by Being Completely Incompetent

The Galactic Council Chamber hummed with the harmonious frequencies of seventeen different species, each delegation positioned according to millennia-old protocols that had prevented wars, fostered trade, and maintained peace across…

R.Z.Rivers June 29, 2025

Sci-Fi Stories

When Deathworld Girl Becomes Humanity’s Most Terrifying Weapon

The acid rain hammered against the reinforced plasteel windows of Hab-7 like bullets from heaven's own machine gun. Tessa Rowe pressed her face to the glass, watching the storm strip…

R.Z.Rivers June 29, 2025

$How ‘Impossible’ Quantum Math Rewrote Reality & Rescued a Crumbling Empire$

Sci-Fi Stories

How ‘Impossible’ Quantum Math Rewrote Reality & Rescued a Crumbling Empire

Chapter 1: The Laughingstock The Probability's Edge drifted through the Nexus Station's docking bay like a piece of space debris that someone had forgotten to collect. Its hull, a patchwork…

R.Z.Rivers June 28, 2025

Sci-Fi Stories

Alien plague accidentally unlocks Humanity’s God-tier psychic powers

The sterile walls of the Terran Medical Research Facility hummed with a frequency that seemed to penetrate Dr. Thomas Burn's very bones. Three months. Three months since the Zephyrian delegation…

R.Z.Rivers June 28, 2025

Sci-Fi Stories

Aliens Fled When Precursor Awakened… But Humanity Wield Them

The salvage hauler Ironbound drifted through the Graveyard like a metal vulture picking at ancient bones. Zara O'Brien pressed her palm against the ship's sensor array, feeling the familiar tingle…

R.Z.Rivers June 27, 2025

Sci-Fi Stories

How Earth’s Forgotten Remnant Became a Galactic Superpower

Chapter 1: Drifting Into Hell The Eschaton groaned. After three centuries of wandering the cosmic dark, her hull resembled a patchwork quilt of salvaged metal, jury-rigged components, and prayers made…

R.Z.Rivers June 27, 2025

Sci-Fi Stories

How Humanity’s Dormant GOD LIKE Powers was UNLEASHED by Alien Attack

The first wave hit Kepler-442b at 0347 hours, ship time. Commander Zhang Wei watched through the observation deck's reinforced transparisteel as the Kytherian vessels—if they could even be called vessels—descended…

R.Z.Rivers June 26, 2025

Sci-Fi Stories

Humanity’s WORST Crew vs. an Alien Mastermind: How Pure CHAOS Accidentally Saved the Galaxy!

Captain Rex "Chaos" Murphy stared at the blinking red light on his console with the same expression most people reserved for finding a dead fish in their coffee. The light…

R.Z.Rivers June 26, 2025