Eight futures. One planet on the brink. 
 
From the last snow protea clinging to a dying mountain to the oceanic cities of a reborn Earth, UTOPIA/HAVOC traces humanity’s long arc through collapse, adaptation, and renewal.
 
In these stories, the end is never clean. The cities of tomorrow shimmer with both promise and ruin; technology becomes a god, a weapon, and a mirror. Lovers meet inside virtual heavens, rebels rise from the ashes of burnt-out empires, and new mythologies take root in the cracks of what was once civilisation.
 
Each story stands alone, yet together they chart a single continuum – from the smog-choked present to a solarpunk horizon that offers glimpses of what we might achieve, what we might overcome, if we act now.
 
Featuring acclaimed and emerging voices in speculative fiction, UTOPIA/HAVOC is a journey across the boundaries of genre and hope: a collision of despair and beauty, grief and growth, ruin and rebirth.
 
Here's the full list of stories that will appear in this anthology:
“The Last Snow Protea” by Laurie Janey – Twin brothers on opposite sides of a collapsing planet reckon with love, loss, and the climate crisis’s quiet toll.
“Perfect Worlds” by Jenna Mervis – A government agent slips into virtual utopia to fish for corruption and finds that perfection has teeth.
“Small Rebellions” by Joss Wyer – A stealth operative infiltrates a billionaire’s fortress high above a neon city to pull off the perfect act of defiance.
“Out of Body, Out of Mind” by Luke Fourie – A state telepath navigates psychic warfare and the thin membrane between duty and selfhood.
“Over the Mountain, Beyond the Barrens” by Nerine Dorman – A woman crosses a shattered landscape in search of love and finds a myth humming beneath the ruins.
“The Benediction of Gaia” by Ciaran R. Maidwell  – Faith and love collide in a green theocracy where obedience is salvation and doubt is heresy.
“Buried Alive” by Thandi Rose – A newcomer climbs a mountain settlement that promises rebirth, but the earth remembers everything buried beneath.
“The Water that Hides in the Waves” by Stef van Staden – On a vast ocean fleet, a single decision ripples outward to test the meaning of mercy in a drowning world.
 
What will humanity build when everything has burned? Will havoc reign, or might we find our own small utopias in between it all?