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Starwalker by Melanie Edmonds

A ship's log, as told by the ship

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 . . .

An ongoing blogfic, with new posts thrice weekly.
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Street by Ryan A. Span

Street is a fast-paced online/print cyberpunk thriller about a woman alone in a dystopian future, Gina, working to make ends meet like the rest of the new underclass — by taking a powerful drug that gives her telepathic abilities.  She skirts the edges of sanity when she takes a job she knows she really shouldn’t, and finds herself embroiled deeper . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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Cloudnigh by Spinner

Humanity has evolved. Our minds have not.

Roman Fairchild is your average reclusive bin-cron—until the government’s stonewall-busting war game comes crashing own on his doorstep, bringing forth an impending armageddon. . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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The Corvus Project by Corvus Corvix

There is life after petroleum and credit economy. Just not as we knew it.

Set in a fairly near future in which fossil fuels are unavailable but electrical power is plentiful–in Seattle anyway–the initial chapters create a dystopia that is actually not such a bad place to live.  Pedal power rules the crumbling streets and freeways, while people live where they will and, increasingly, however they wish. The Northwest is lucky: it still . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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Hyperlink Your Heart by randomhuman

Until there's nothing left

Out of loneliness, or boredom, maybe, you assign a URL to your heart and share it on the forums and social networks you frequent.  The hits trickle in at first, the unusually curious trampling through, poking and prodding, unsure of what they’re seeing.  But then the links spread.  Everybody wants to see your heart, to have a role in pulling . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated weekly.
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Unsettled World by W.B. Sage

Most folks reckoned that when humankind finally up and destroyed itself, it would do so with bombs, blades, brimstone and all those other things that politicians and priests had warned about.  Turns out it was a poet who guessed the right of it.  The end came more with a whimper than a bang. There were no great wars, no . . .

A serialized novel, updating fortnightly.
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Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire by Abner Senires

When the going gets tough, the tough shoot back.

It’s 2042 in the California Free State metroplex of Bay City.  Kat and Mouse are a pair of ronin—guns for hire—trying to eke out a living. They have the skill.  They have the will. And they have the bad habit of getting in over their heads. Which usually means run-ins with rival ronin, punkergangs, the mob, the . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes weekly.
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The Know Circuit by Gary A. Ballard

A serialized cyberpunk blog novel, The Know Circuit by Gary A. Ballard is the sequel to Under the Amoral Bridge.  Artemis Bridge is the connection for all your illicit needs.  But when his bodyguard’s grandmother goes missing in a mysterious explosion in Boulder, Colorado, Bridge is forced to ditch his self-interest to help a friend.  But as they approach the . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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72 Hours by Jerry Kimbrough

A horror-themed webserial that takes place “in real time” over the course of 72 Hours. Focuses on three different protagonists, which alternate from chapter to chapter. . . .

A serialized novel, with no recent updates.
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Agents Provocateurs by Tama Wise

In the near future, New Zealand is the Free Republic of Oceania. In a world of mega-corporations, where mankind has harnessed the computational power of the human brain, a golden new age of utopia is but a few elusive steps away. This is the story of the Agency that is working to stop it. . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes weekly.
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Verifiable by Ayami Tyndall

Welcome to the first Surveillance Peace State In utopia nothing is unknown. The Cloud sees, records and shares everything. Apps can tell you anything about anyone from anywhere. No secret can be kept, no wrong can be done . . . except by a Ghost. Invisible to the Cloud and overlooked by humanity, these shadow people lead hidden lives off the grid. Unrestricted . . .

A serialized novel, updating Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Killing Time OST by Aheila

A Nightshade Assassin Serial

Rich heiress by day and assassin by night, Lorelei finds balance and strength in her crazy double life.  She deals with crazier stuff on a daily basis, including her nightmares about nanotechnology and its perversion of the world.  The only implant she tolerates is the chip playing music in her brain.  Armed with a vintage Desert Eagle, assisted by a . . .

A serialized novel, updating thrice weekly.
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LITTLE BROTHER

Homeland Security and Terrorism

Editor: Linda Schoales
April 24, 2009

“Little Brother” is the story of Marcus Yallow, a high school geek who gets caught in the wrong place, at the wrong time.  He and his friends skip school to play an Alternate Reality Game but are picked up by Homeland Security in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on San Francisco.  When they are finally released, they find their [more . . .]

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CLOUDNIGH

So far, so good! Characters are Cloudnigh’s strength

Member: Lizzy
March 3, 2010

Cloudnigh is a cyberpunk story set in the bad part of town in a post-Earth society. The culture is vaguely North American – some hybrid of hipster and grunge – as explored by a group of late-teens immersed in the music scene.  As of this writing, seven chapters and two supplements are up, with updates scheduled twice a week.

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