Quantum Nightmares [Paperback]

Quantum Nightmares, a collection of dystopian sci-fi stories, contains the nuggets of bizarre psychological truth that help explain today’s divisive United States, where myth collides with belief and fact is hard to find.

Betty Gray, the infamous first woman to report an alien abduction, offers her eggs to save a future infertile human race. In doing so, she connects her consciousness to the entire stream of human history—past, present, and future. Her dreams frame each of the fifteen tales in the collection, forming the spine ofQuantum Nightmares.

From genderless societies to digital tribalism, each story explores the strange mechanics of power, identity, and survival in a world veering away from nature.

This debut collection channels the speculative precision ofClifford Simak, Phillip K Dick,andTed Chiang, while dragging their serenity into darker, more chaotic realms.

Pete, who was usually too smart for his own good, was sitting in the third-row center and noticed how the interaction between Billy and Mr. Johnson transpired. He concocted a plan.

 “Gimme your phone,” he said to his best friend, Sean, who scoffed and shrugged him off. “No way, dude.” Sean’s eyes grew big as a particularly juicy sequence of candies and chocolates lined up perfectly. He swiped left and right, up and down, licking his lips as a cascading mountain of fresh chocolates and hard candy replaced the section he’d just matched. “I’m almost to levelseven hundred fifty thousand,” he added with stars in his eyes.

Pete should’ve known better. A teenage boy would just as soon dip his testicles in a lagoon full of famished piranhas then surrender his phone willingly. He punched Sean on the arm and said, “You wanna know whatlã<