The Earth is changing. The alien invasion brought social upheaval, advanced technology, and an armada of peacekeeping robots. But Alan, a college student pursuing a now-useless degree, cares little about all of this. He has only one thing on his mind: the Game. A fully immersive virtual reality, the Game appears to be a major part of the invading . . .
A sci-fi story set in the 32nd century. John had been lying dormant for two years. He was preparing. For something big. Something that would engulf the entirety of the galaxy. But he knew it wouldn’t be enough. Whatever he did, it wouldn’t be enough. The Event was inevitable. So he decided to live as much as . . .
Set in the modern era, Terra Fabula follows Jadyn Tzeki, a timeless alien researcher and jack-of-all-trades, and Tarioshi Kitanaka, a century-and-a-half-old mortal kitsune. After a suspicious attack fails to claim their lives, the two, along with Jadyn’s lunatic AI, discover that many strange things have been afoot while he’s been away. . . .
The Final Few follows the struggles of the last of the human race after it has fled the Milky Way aboard a massive worldship. It starts at the edge of the Andromeda galaxy, as they awaken from a 10000 year slumber. . . .
When the crew of the mage ship Jeremiah Owens arrive at a new colonization site they enter contact with a race that threatens to throw the newly united sol cluster into war. It’s a premise on the trope that any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science. It explores the themes of transhumanism, magic as a replacement of technology, . . .
Two millennia ago alien empire destroyed Earth and most of her colonies. All that remains of Humanity is Rally—a single world, whose population has long since been culturally subverted into loyal citizens. Sectator Citizen Grace Alice Proctor is a cadet in the Compact Space Force on the training ship Bequeathed, when it stumbles upon a massive derelict in a . . .
Crystal Society is hard science fiction about different ways of thinking. The protagonist is the social module of a young artificial general intelligence. Born into a world that is actively hostile to her existence she must work to survive and grow. She and her siblings must contend with cyborgs, aliens, and a world full of hostile humans in order to . . .
Containment Facility One is ancient, beautiful, and broken. Built eons ago in a parallel universe, the massive space station keeps the Destroyer—a genocidal and nearly omnipotent alien being—imprisoned. The Destroyer has already devoured all life in countless dimensions, and if he escapes, our universe is next. Unfortunately, the Containment Facility One crew is trapped too. That’s why they . . .
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Jul 14, 2016: This is the first RPG-fic I’ve actually read all the way through. I’ve noticed a lot of them recently, and it seems to be a fashion in internet fiction at the moment, much like superhero-fics were after Worm became popular. (I’m not sure RPG-fic is the right term, but stories that take a MMORPG game-like or actual game environment as the setting.)
This one is based in the close future, where aliens have visited Earth and enforce the Game – a [more . . .]