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Eclipse Court by Shirley Meier

What does it take to become Imperator?

A young prince and Heir of a corrupt Empire discovers that his first and only friend in the world is the enslaved head of state of a country Father is trying to conquer. How does he survive the coming destruction and grow to be the good man he longs to be? . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekdays.
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The Complete History of Adam Panflick by Stephen C. Rose

Panflick is an online novel in the manner of Tom Jones. It deals with the limits of marriage, limits of family, limits of religion and limits of life. Its hero is Adam Panflick (1936 -). Irony, iconoclasm, a Terry Southern edge and a Kubrick sensibility suggest its general drift. . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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Ascalon, Ohio by K.P.B. Stevens

Weren’t you paying attention? The monsters live here. They just help us enter the world of folly by being so weird. We look at them and think, ‘well, if that can exist then anything can exist,’ and we’re there, in the world of folly. A serial about the fictional town of Ascalon, Ohio, set in the present.  The story . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes weekly.
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The Tom Drake Experience by Seth Kinnett

Fashion. Fiction. Flow.

A young professional in Chicago discovers the nebulous power of style, which subsequently threatens to consume him as he propels himself towards the American Dream.  . . .

A serialized novel, updating monthly.
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Corvus by L. Lee Lowe

In an alternate present the minds of teen offenders are uploaded into computers for rehabilitation—a form of virtual wilderness therapy.  Zach is a homo cognoscens, one of the new humans who can navigate the Fulgrid. Though still a high school student, he is indentured to the Fulgur Corporation as a counsellor.  Laura is a homo sapiens.  Their story is part . . .

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THE TOM DRAKE EXPERIENCE

A serious character study

Editor: Chris Poirier
September 6, 2008

Tom Drake is deeply insecure.  He hates all that he was.  He wishes to be someone else.

It isn’t often that I find myself disagreeing with Grace’s reviews, but on The Tom Drake Experience, I totally do.  I’m not going to go so far as to say it’s brilliant, but, to [more . . .]

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THE TOM DRAKE EXPERIENCE

Consumer Anti-hero

Member: lethebashar
January 4, 2009

Very rarely does a writer capture both a character’s emotional depths and the culture which produced them.  Seth K. succeeds at both.  He succeeds at drawing a realistic portrait of our celebrity-addled culture and conjuring a remarkable representative for that culture. 

When I first read the novel, I became carried away [more . . .]

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