Fiction from the Far Edge
Aphelion Press publishes strange futures, haunted systems, impossible memories, and books that return from the dark with frost on the hull.
What We Send into Orbit
Strange Premises
Shared memories from futures that never arrived. Towns with another society underfoot. Saints carrying alien relics through a collapsing empire.
Consequences First
The machine is never the point. We care what it costs, who gets erased, who profits, and what remains human after the impossible becomes ordinary.
Small Press Energy
Ebooks and select paperbacks for readers who still want the odd signal, the risky premise, and the story that will not pass quietly through the machine.
Current Signal
The Thin Veneer
What if the world you trust is only a thin layer, ready to tear at any moment?
Anna Leffler's life is ordinary: spreadsheets, video calls, and nights alone in her city apartment. But when the data she works with starts to feel hollow and the walls around her seem paper-thin, Anna's search for answers spirals into a chilling obsession. Guided by a cryptic online stranger and haunted by impossible glitches in her reality, Anna must confront the horrifying truth: reality itself might be nothing but a fragile illusion.
Field Notes from Aphelion
Occasional dispatches on new books, editorial notes, and the strange weather around speculative fiction.