From the author of the award winning novel “River” and internet cult hit “Catharsis” comes a serialized novel about the end of the world and the lives of those destined to stop it. Three girls are thrust together by their shared abilities and the roles they are to play in the nearing apocalypse. They are guided only by the mysterious . . .
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Tracker, starting with Tiger and Fox, is the story of a genetic construct in a post-apocalyptic America learning to live with his differences where the Enhanced are despised and frequently destroyed in the name of racial purity. He is a non-human in a world of humans. . . .
“Bat Durstons” are welcome here. First and foremost, we publish Space Westerns: works with themes from the Western genre set in Outer-space. We border on Space Opera, Steampunk, and the Weird West. Contains fiction, poetry, music, radio-plays, and illustrated features. . . .
Melkeen is a prodigy, a young Wizard with incredible magikal abilities. Sarta is a barbarian blade-for-hire of unbelievable skill. Together, they are a formidable team. And the world is against them. Required by his elder (and rival) Wizards to search out rare and dangerous artifacts, a young man hires a woman to guard him on his travels. Their contract is . . .
Brian grew up knowing one thing about his father: that he hated him. Abandoned before he was even born, Brian resents his mother’s nostalgic yearning for the man that disappeared from her life. But what Brian believes he knows is about to be thrown into chaos when he learns that his father’s disappearance was caused by his death—a violent . . .
An adventure serial about three men, one an American WW2 Soldier on a mysterious south pacific island being investigated by Nazis. The other story takes place in present time about the soldiers grandson his friend and their attempts to escape a new enemy and find some answers. . . .
The last Ilandu Wars ended over a century ago. Yet the Diot Republic still fights to regain its former glory. Its obstacles are many, its resources few. In this Dark Age, an Ilandu cult has risen. They are promised power. They are promised control. They are promised the secrets of the Blessed. Who shall rescue the fragile . . .
A robot and an assassin team up to fight crime in the western suburbs of Minneapolis—for money, natch. And except for the evil uber-corporations and their leprechaun representative, an immortal witch and her dragon henchman, zombies, mysterious artifacts, competitive ninjas and a restaurant owner with proof that this all happens in an alternate world, things are pretty okay. . . .
Alaisa is an elven huntress, silent and deadly. Her brother Hilner, on the other hand, is an elven magician, loud and annoying but smart in his own way. When a senator asks the two of them to investigate the Verel family, who have been cursed to lose every one of their firstborn in strange accidents, they cannot refuse. The mystery . . .
The main problem with the average superhero origin story is that they tend to go like this: Step 1. Singular event happens in the hero’s past to motivate him/her. Step 2. Hero gains superpowers or trains hard to get abilities. Step 3. Hero becomes famous/notorious. The fact of the matter is that it is not one singular event that . . .
What makes a psychopath? Magarce is a psychopath—frightening, amoral, deadly, wanton—and a Nerre, a feline creature from a world of rigorous protocol and deeply ingrained civility. Force of Fate explores where she came from, follows with unflinching gaze as she pursues her bad choices into a world of deeper and deeper depravity and savagery—and doesn’t blink, even when . . .
Human beings are transient creatures. The impermanence of life is tightly interwoven into society—the young are taught by the old so that they, in turn, can teach the next generation when the old has passed on. People are raised in a transient world. Everything eventually breaks down. Plants wither, mountains erode, and eventually the planet itself will come to . . .
Sometimes, the government needs a villain. That’s when they turn to Julia, leader of Project Redemption, a special organization that take incarcerated super felons and uses them in various covert activities. They may not be nice and they may not be clean, but they get the job done. Sometimes, all that stands between our security and a super-powered maniac, . . .
I enjoyed Kat and Mouse. Fast. Funny. Lots of blood between paragraphs. Read it while liveblogging at The Dispatch. Kept me entertained.
Damn.
Abner Senires has the skills. The chops, as they say in the biz. Writing reads snappy. Characters a little [more . . .]
The story "Unsettled World" features a post-apocalyptic society. Not much time is spent explaining how our civilization fell, which is to the betterment of the plot, which deals with events a few generations down the road.
By choosing to set the story in the future, the author builds a frontier society [more . . .]