Bold Dark Worlds Series
Bold Dark Worlds
Four novels of surveillance, resistance, and survival in a dark near-future Earth — published by Emergency Comms Press.
“A gritty, haunting dystopian sci-fi novel — the author does an incredible job layering the story with powerful characters and rich world-building.”
Pacific Book Review
“Bold Dark Worlds combines speculative world-building with a serious examination of social inequality and injustices. Readers who enjoy politically engaged fiction and complex stories may find this dystopian fiction particularly compelling.”
The Book Review Directory
“Very well written book. This author has pulled you into the future with very detailed descriptions of the world around you — it was hard to put this book down.”
Carrie Wiseman — Amazon Verified Purchase ★★★★★
The Books
Book One
Endless Fall of Night
The opening volume of the Bold Dark Worlds series — a dystopian thriller set in a surveillance state where resistance is both necessary and dangerous.
Book Two
Heavy Weight of Darkness
The second installment deepens the world of Bold Dark Worlds — operatives navigate moral ambiguity and the crushing weight of a system designed to break them.
Book Three
Deadly Going Dark
The third volume escalates the stakes as the resistance faces its most dangerous challenge yet in a world where going dark may be the only way to survive.
Book Four
Hunting Armed Men
The fourth and final volume of the Bold Dark Worlds series — a relentless conclusion to the saga of survival, sacrifice, and the cost of resistance.
Key Characters
Protagonist
Cassandra IX
A powerful, conflicted operative navigating the surveillance state — her choices define the moral center of the series.
Antagonist
Director Maren
The architect of the surveillance apparatus — brilliant, ruthless, and convinced that control is the only path to order.
Ensemble
The Resistance Cell
A fractured network of operatives, hackers, and survivors — each carrying their own reasons to fight and their own lines they will not cross.
Series Themes
Colonialism & Power
The series maps Earth's history of colonial exploitation onto a near-future surveillance state — power concentrated, resistance fragmented.
Surveillance & Control
Every movement tracked, every communication monitored — the series explores what it means to live under total observation.
Moral Ambiguity
Neither side is clean. The series refuses easy heroes and villains, forcing characters and readers to weigh impossible choices.
Survival & Resistance
At its core, Bold Dark Worlds is about the human refusal to be erased — the cost of resistance and the price of compliance.
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Bold Dark Worlds is one of six series and standalone works by J.M. Erickson.