Science Fiction from the Enduring Human

by Justin Berman

This second collection stands beside the first but turns its focus inward. Where the earlier collection charted the architecture of control, this volume follows the people who live within the witnesses, workers, parents, and wanderers who move through systems that measure, ration, and reshape their lives. Each story observes how ordinary lives bend under design, how structure becomes habitat, and how endurance takes quiet forms that no law can name.

The collection moves beyond concept toward human gravity. Its worlds are built from data and policy, yet the heart of each lies in a single, fragile persistence. Fear, trust, and compassion become the variables that the system cannot solve. Taken together, these stories reveal not the machinery itself, but the pulse that endures within it.

220 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 8, 2025

About the author

Justin B. Berman has seen enough of the world to know how fragile hope can be, and he keeps holding onto it anyway. His stories wander where dystopia and tenderness meet: among broken systems, people who still reach for each other, and truths we’d rather not face. He writes less about machines than about the quiet ways they shape our hearts, failures, and longings. With roots in aerospace engineering and a lifelong love of science fiction, his work leans toward the human more than the technical. This anthology is offered simply: as a warning, as a gesture of care, and as a reminder for anyone who still notices.

Reviews

[Justin Berman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my second anthology that I’ve written and published. I really enjoyed writing this and spent less time on the science and more time on the human emotions around the science. And I continue to be appreciative for those that took the time to read it.