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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? . . .
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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 . . .
overall 11 votes:
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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? . . .
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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 . . .
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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. . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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, 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. . . .
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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 . . .
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 . . .
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Caleb is twenty-two, but he is pretending he is fifteen. He is attending high school, despite having finished college. He is pretending to be a nudist, although he actually likes wearing clothes. He is living with two people who are pretending to be his parents. But don’t worry, it is all for a good cause. At least, Caleb thinks . . .
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When Cassie meets Stan and Hawk, two soldiers in the shadowy Western Forest Authority, she can’t wait to sign up and do her part to save the world. But these soldiers aren’t human, and she just might find herself on the endangered species list . . . . . .
This is only the second piece of script presented fiction that I have read and I admit to knowing very little – if anything at all – about the technicalities of their execution outside my experience as a reader.
What appeals to me about this style of fiction is that it [more . . .]
Mind + Body, by Aaron Dunlap is a fast-paced scroller.
I’m currently reading a novel, some webfiction, and lots of nonfiction, but I tore through this novel. It’s 400+ pages in PDF, but it sure didn’t feel that long. It’s a simple mystery/action plot – a high school senior tracking down [more . . .]