Denver, Colorado is known for many things: it’s a growing, thriving mid-sized city with a vital arts community and music scene. There are some pretty good restaurants if you know where to look, and the rents are (relatively) cheap. What Denver doesn’t have is the world (and sometimes galaxy) at-stake, super-hero daring-do that happens in the bigger cities along . . .
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Faith’s world has ended. Broken, poisoned, and increasingly infested with the shambling dead, it isn’t much like the world she used to know. She made it through an apocalypse with a handful of strangers, but what does she do next? This is her story, told in real-time as she tries to keep a journal of her group’s journey, searching . . .
The Starwalker is a starship with an experimental star-stepping drive. Designed to use the gravity wells of stars to fold space, she can travel between star systems faster than FTL. That is, if they can get it to work. She is run by a sophisticated AI who doesn’t always follow her programming. She has only just been born, and . . .
killthewabbit is a web-based improvisation using social media tools. The main character, killthewabbit, is a bodysnatcher — someone who gives rides to casual commuters — in the Bay area. He is also a predator. Readers are encouraged to participate by commenting, tweeting, friending killthewabbit on Facebook, and using other social networking applications. . . .
A communications specialist in the year 2185 is marooned in deep space by his ship’s assistant (a transgenic fish/humanoid). Stranded just outside the horizon of a supermassive black hole, he begins to send messages back to record his actions and observations. A radio astronomer in present-day Antarctica is listening. Something terrible is about to happen. . . .
Wayne Robertson is an astrophysicist at a radio telescope array in Antarctica who intercepts a series of transmissions from over half a billion light years away, and 176 years into the future. It is through these transmissions that he discovers the existence of Maxim Akihiko Broussad, a deranged genetic hybrid named Spegg, and a wealth of new technology that will . . .
A past that can damn him and no future, Trey has to act. What would you do? On the run and homeless. You would grab at every opportunity like it was your last. This is the last chance for Trey. Dead Drop is a fiction blog, a modern Noir set in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California. Listinged every . . .
The intense, complicated, intriguing, journal of a noble lady. . . .
The Urban 30 captures the lives of several heroes, on and off the clock of being super. Each main character is written by a different writer. . . .
Ongoing story of Darmot Kromwell. Based on a D&D game. It is a first person narriative written from the point of view of Darmot. It starts as he is leaving home for the first time with dreams of finding fortune with his sword in hand. . . .
Crandall Jacobson doesn’t believe in vampires. His life is singing for Inertia Stand, a band he loves even if he hates the name. His best friend and drummer appears to have the same lust for music but Mike also has a secret: He’s a vampire hunter. When a routine staking goes awry, and a vampire sinks her teeth into . . .
Dave set up a blog to communicate with his girlfriend while he was away doing research at a top secret facility. A blog that I discovered while hacking that facility’s computer system. Then one day, Dave disappears and all of his friends and family assume that he’s dead. But somehow Dave keeps writing in his blog. Now I’m the only . . .
Follow e- the free Electron. Look at the world from a new perspective. Solve the puzzle and follow the clues to discover the travels of e- through your picoverse. Life as an Electron, the seminal member of the Coffee Break Blog stable, offers the Science Minded, budding Experimenters and Educators the ability to participate in the adventures of e- . . .
The thing is, I can’t figure out why. Not that that’s a bad thing but for a fantasy this story’s lacking the blatant fantastical elements that would make it so. This one breaks some rules when it comes to what I like and what I don’t. I definitely like this story despite that within the first month of postings is [more . . .]
Starwalker is an engaging concept—-an AI of a computer telling the story of not only the ship, but her crew.
As a reader,I find Starwalker intriguing for two reasons: she’s a perfect omnipotent narrartor, seeing into the shadows and reading into the things that go on around (and literally inside) of [more . . .]