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ChoCho and Jynx are two young lovers facing down a world almost completely devoid of human life after an undefinable event destroys nearly every city and township on the planet. . . .
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A violent disaster turns an ordinary day at work into a living nightmare for David, a young office worker in central England. As the city falls apart around him, he sets out to find his fiancee Sharon. The world as David knows it is about to disappear forever. Can he survive what comes after? . . .
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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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Containment Facility One is ancient, beautiful, and broken. Built eons ago in a parallel universe, the massive space station keeps the Destroyer—a genocidal and nearly omnipotent alien being—imprisoned. The Destroyer has already devoured all life in countless dimensions, and if he escapes, our universe is next. Unfortunately, the Containment Facility One crew is trapped too. That’s why they . . .
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This is a story of a changed world, of the works of man in conflict with the works of nature. Of humans who have become more than human, and humans that have become less. It is the story of Tom, an Arizona native who left as a child after an earthquake severed California from the mainland, and created an ocean . . .
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Marty hated his life, especially since breaking up with the girl he loved with his whole heart, Selena. That was before the Zombie Apocalypse hit. Now life sucks even more because not only does he have a broken heart, but the undead have nearly overrun the city. Selena died, lost to the zombies. His only means of communication with . . .
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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. . . .
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Welcome to the world of master fabulist Edward Morris, where History has been pulled down a Hieronymus Bosch rabbit-hole and everything makes far too much sense. In Morris’s alternate history tour de force, on an East Coast two centuries after Armageddon, a rogue soldier throws himself back in Time to wreak havoc upon History and feed on the blood in . . .
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‘Life on the Fringes’ is the working title of an online serial novel by Tom Barendse. Our hero is Sam, his brother is Vig, and both are officers of the Confederate Naval Forces. Neither one has seen the other in several months, having split up after being stranded on a failed CCS terraforming project known as ‘Earth II’. . . .
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Cyborg Ivy is a web based science fiction story centered on the adventures of three friends experienced through their correspondence. The narrative begins in 1899 . . . an alternate 1899 . . . wherein mankind has discovered certain technologies that allow them to travel from planet to planet without having to brave the perils of outer space. Their space folding cuts an opening in between two worlds, . . .
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Sequel to Exile’s Burn. The Zatvian Cooperative is in a state of collapse, and warfare, rebellion, and lawlessness are everywhere. Follow the crew of the pirate ship Exile as they search through the ruins, encountering petty tyrants, smugglers, and medical experiments gone wrong. Led by their amnesiac telepathic captain, Rat, they are searching for the daughter of one of their . . .
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Pollyanna meets Starship Troopers in this serial about a 30-something Marine called out of retirement to help fight the war against the alien crabs. But shattered morale is the least of the company’s problems . . . . . . .
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Events are occurring across the globe. Strange, inexplicable events. Cities disappearing, strange creatures sighted, and any number of experiences that simply test the limits of sanity. They are accelerating at an alarming rate, threatening to overwhelm an unprepared world . . . almost. Mage Elijah Valentine has seen it all before—well, most all of it. He stands between the world and the growing . . .
There is a too-often cited "writing tip" and that is "show, don’t tell." The idea is, you write a scene to "show" readers what you mean, instead of "telling" them.
So, in simplistic terms, you don’t tell them "he was a nice guy," you show a nice guy:
When I first listened to the podcast version of Brave Men Run, I was amazed at how well Selznick deals with the genre. It was so addictive that I only took breaks for eating, sleeping and downloading new episodes on my slow internet connection. All in all, it took about a day to get through the entire podcast novel. I [more . . .]