In 2154, where independent nations have given way to splintered corporate entities responsible for the housing, health, security and education of their employees and shareholders, government everywhere has been scaled down to the point of collapse, leaving those outside of private territories to fend for themselves. Over the shoulder of five inhabitants, carve out slices of a world that . . .
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Ellis Graves has found his way into the strange city-world of Shadow, where he has become entangled in the dark plans of blue-blooded Philosophers and savage monsters. His only allies are a beautiful pirate without a vessel and an old man who just might be completely mad. All he wants to do is find a way back home, but . . .
Delta Flight is an apocalyptic web serial novel written by Michael Hughes about a Special Forces unit that must save humanity by preventing a 2,000 year old Roman curse from awakening the Anti-Christ. . . .
The cautionary tale of Buddy Best, Hollywood hack. . . .
The stories here are short (some very short) and are mostly sf – that is, speculative fiction: fantasies, myths, science fiction, slipstream . . . all the flavors of fabulation except, I hope, for the mundane. Many were written with the audience of the Usenet newsgroup talk.bizarre in mind, back when text was the thing. —APS . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
An alien probe visits the Earth. How best to validate its understanding of the dominate life form than by creating one that would pass as human to its peers? Its mission would have been a bit easier had it not chosen as its subject the dead mother of a dying boy and deceased wife of a crippled mercenary hunted by . . .
Seventeen-year-old Sidonie Ardash is leaving her home in Uptown Rivalie, headed for the Bromian Ghetto, a forbidden place she has only read about in the pages of a book written by her mother. She finds a new home, a new family, and a new life in the haunted world of the Broms, a people displaced and cursed by unknowable . . .
The main character of this story is a vampire, but not your traditional True Blood, Twilight, Buffy vampire. The main character of this story believes, for whatever reason, that she siphons energy out of other people, drawing in their life force in order to supplement her own. She feeds on them in hot, intense, seductive sexual encounters that leaves them . . .
Danny was a typical teenager—until the ghost of her dead grandfather crashed her thirteenth birthday party to give her one very special gift: his legacy, the ability to travel into books. Now, Danny leads a triple life. An 18-year-old high school dropout who works at the local bookstore . . . A young wood elf attending university in a living . . .
Marin Astoris had a vision a few years ago, of a mushroom cloud rising beyond the university’s iconic clocktower. A voice whispered in her ear, take a breath and wait to die. That vision never came to pass. Something else happened instead: an asteroid, a botched attempt to stop it from hitting earth, and a resulting cataclysm that left only . . .
The gods have abandoned the royal family of Nahwan. So it has been whispered since the war ended, almost two decades past. But royal affairs mean little to fifteen-year-old Intan Aghavni, who enrolls in the piloting program at the Royal Military Academy, pursuing the vague memory of a woman who saved her life as a child . . . . Until the . . .
100 Candles follows the adventures of Jeff and Kenny, the former a run-of-the-mill kind of guy, the latter a professional ghost-buster. Of course, it’s not just about killing ghosts and demons: there are numerous subplots (particularly romantic ones) to keep you interested.
I am generally not a big fan of horror, [more . . .]
Some things in my life are certainties. I like Greek and Norse legends, Shakespeare, King Arthur, Robin Hood, The Three Musketeers and the Lord of the Rings. I like modern twists on the old myths—like Star Wars, Indiana Jones and superheroes.
Another certainty is that, being named Gavin Scott Williams, I’m [more . . .]