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The Vector by MCM

Eva thought she could outrun the plagues, but she was wrong. The bio-hackers that ripped the world raw are targeting her hometown of Prague, and this time there may be no escaping it. Now, hunted by police who think she’s a hacker herself, Eva must brave the rotting city streets to find her mother before it’s too late. But . . .

A serialized novel, updating Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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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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Strange Little Band by Nancy Brauer and Vanessa Brooks

Two psychics, one mega-corp and all-around bad behavior

Strange Little Band is the ongoing story of Addison and Shane, two self-centered, amoral psychics who work for the cut-throat Triptych Corporation.  Their insular, comfortable lives are disrupted when, due to Triptych’s machinations, they become unlikely parents.  How can they raise a child when they can’t trust each other? . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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Unknown Transmission by Steve Scearce

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. . . .

An ongoing blogfic, with new posts thrice weekly.
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Strangers in the Brain by Charles Sebian-Lander

A story about a detective and his brain.

Veteran detective Jake Burleigh is chosen to solve a case using an amazing new technology.  It’s only after he finishes the job that the real mysteries begin. . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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The Mushroom Wars by Adam Gashlin and Michael Kazmierczak

In 1996, Dr. Beuctus Guggenheim, head of Research and Development at Cantspell’s Olde Fashund Soupe Phactorie, was given the task of creating a preservative for cream of mushroom soup.  His actions set into motion a cataclysm, opening a link between our world and the ‘Mushroom Zone’. Soon a legion of Mushrooms claimed our world for their empire.  A campaign of . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes 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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Tracker: Tiger and Fox by David Fields

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. . . .

A serialized novel, updating almost daily.
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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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A Pittsburgh Storm by David R. O'Keeffe

Early next year, a deadly and unexplained virus emerges on the U.S. continent.  Within weeks, the entire world’s population faces extinction.  Amongst the chaos and desperation of a ruined world stand a few mysteriously unaffected individuals.  Lost, confused, and alone.  This is the bizarre story of one of those individuals, Matthew Cahill, as he travels from Pittsburgh through the Pennsylvania . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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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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TRACKER: TIGER AND FOX

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Editor: Sonja Nitschke
March 7, 2009

Note:  The chapters are divided into multiple parts of alternative lengths.  Even though I have only read a little more than four complete chapters, I feel that I have read enough to write a fair assessment of the work.

The main issue I had with Tracker: Tiger and Fox appeared [more . . .]

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STREET

A Mean Street, But Worth the Trip

Member: Ysabetwordsmith
July 14, 2010

It’s a mean "Street" out there, but fun to watch from a safe distance. This story has a short setup leading to a long, sharp drop into fast-paced action.

The viewpoint character, Gina, is a prostitute who sells not sex but something more intimate.  She scans people’s thoughts and emotions with [more . . .]

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