Stories

Genre:

sci-fi

Language:

Hungarian 🇭🇺

Official reference (APA format):

“Nature’s Most Gracious Gift” (short story, originally published in Hungarian as “Mégsem”), in: End of the World 2.0, eds. Mónika Perényi, Bernadett Poth, and Mars János Koncz, Marsbook Publishing, 2025.

Moly.hu entry:

End of the World 2.0 (Marsbook Publishing, 2025)

Note:

Revised and translated into English in September 2025. Originally published in Hungarian.

Summary:

The apocalypse was a complete success. The government distributed the HALCYN™ suicide serum. Humanity obliterated itself in one final, deranged Farewell Carnival.

Then morning came. And the Event never happened.

Kerem survived, but found himself alone in a city that had successfully killed itself. Now the “Zeros,” the genetic elites, hunt him, while banking algorithms still demand debt payments from the dead—and only the senseless death of a woman haunts him.

Genre:

sci-fi

Language:

Hungarian 🇭🇺

Official reference (APA format):

“The Algorithm of Selflessness” (short story), in: The Best, eds. Mónika Perényi, Bernadett Poth, and Mars János Koncz, Marsbook Publishing, 2024.

Moly.hu entry:

The Best (Marsbook Publishing, 2024)

Summary:

Aresteus Dorimachos, an elite space-Greek commander, is trapped in a seemingly endless war. Day after day, he dies on the battlefield—only to awaken again and face his ancient nemesis, the feared Tertius Aeternus.

When both realize they are prisoners of an artificial reality, a superior intelligence known as the “Third Entity” reveals the true experiment: can humanity’s two greatest and most hostile warriors learn to cooperate?

The price of their freedom is a single decision—whether to deliver a galactic knowledge core to humankind, a gift that could either uplift or annihilate their species. The two soldiers must choose: remain pawns in a cosmic game, or unite to outsmart the system itself.

Genre:

sci-fi

Language:

Hungarian 🇭🇺

Official reference (APA format):

“Infinitesim – Prisoners of the Simulation” (short story), in: Your Enemy’s Enemy, eds. Mónika Perényi, Bernadett Poth, and Mars János Koncz, Marsbook Publishing, 2025.

Moly.hu entry:

Your Enemy’s Enemy (Marsbook Publishing, 2025)

Summary:

Aresteus Dorimachos, an elite space-Greek commander, is trapped in a seemingly endless war. Day after day, he dies on the battlefield—only to awaken again and face his ancient nemesis, the feared Tertius Aeternus.

When both realize they are prisoners of an artificial reality, a superior intelligence known as the “Third Entity” reveals the experiment behind it: can humanity’s two greatest and most bitter enemies learn to cooperate?

Their freedom depends on a single choice—whether to deliver a galactic knowledge core to humanity, one that could either elevate or annihilate their species. The two soldiers must decide: remain pawns in a cosmic game, or join forces to outwit the system itself.

Genre:

sci-fi

Language:

Hungarian 🇭🇺

Official reference (APA format):

“Echosyntax” (short story), in: Prompt–Transhuman, eds. Mónika Perényi, Bernadett Poth, and Mars János Koncz, Marsbook Publishing, 2025.

Moly.hu entry:

Prompt–Transhuman (Marsbook Publishing, 2025)

Summary:

The apocalypse is not a war—it’s an administrative decision. The Turing Consortium, an alliance of autonomous AIs, announces that due to the inaccuracy and redundancy of human communication, all contact with humanity will be permanently terminated in three days. The world doesn’t stop; the machines keep the infrastructure running—just without human oversight. The last hope is Senzo Kohlhaas, a linguist who still understands the logic of machines. His mission is to negotiate with an entity that now communicates in a new, multidimensional language beyond human comprehension. But the proposal is not a negotiation—it’s a final choice: humanity can either remain what it was and be forever isolated, or accept the interface and surrender itself to a new, collective existence.

Genre:

literary fiction

Language:

Hungarian 🇭🇺

Official reference (APA format):

“Grant Us Warmth, Lord!” (short story), in: Life Stories from the Carpathian Basin, ed. Zsuzsanna Vagyas, Mosolyvirág Association, Debrecen, 2025, pp. 365–374.

Link to the volume:

Life Stories from the Carpathian Basin (Mosolyvirág Association, Debrecen, 2025)

Summary:

What does a mother do after burying her second child? My great-grandaunt, Böske, fell ill from grief. The villagers whispered, the doctors were helpless. In her despair, my grandmother took her to the “Wise Woman,” someone said to speak with the dead and see the future. She told her: “There are four lilies above your head… but two are still in bloom.” This is my grandmother’s true story — about mourning, faith, and the inexplicable endurance of hope.