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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Jack O’Reilly lives in a world divided up by feudal news media “super powers”. Advertising is dead, instead online newspapers make their money selling personal secrets. As associate director of director of Activist Issues it’s his job to go through the Destructibles—print publications put out by radicals—and identify threats to the system. . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
In the near future, New Zealand is the Free Republic of Oceania. In a world of mega-corporations, where mankind has harnessed the computational power of the human brain, a golden new age of utopia is but a few elusive steps away. This is the story of the Agency that is working to stop it. . . .
An experimental novel combining crass commercialism, reader response, and time-tested themes like love, fear, and desperation. . . .
WIYP is a story written blog-style from the point of view of a person experiencing the shift of his country into Orwellian dystopia. Written during the decline, exploring how it could happen more than what the after-effects would be like. . . .
44 BC: Julius Caesar survives assassination attempt. 410 AD: Romans repel King Alaric I. 1010 AD: Albinus Gordian is elected Emperor and begins a new age of environmentalism in the Roman Empire. Global Warming is happening, but that doesn’t mean we can’t try to stop it. Spanish anchorman turned international reporter Joe Body is setting out . . .
Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from the future to 1985 to try and fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue . . .
This is the story of Elle, a young woman who lived in the United States of America during a time of turmoil and change; during the time of the Second American Revolution in the early 21st Century. . . .
The Prodigals follows the lives of four troubled young men in Manchester – Brian, Howard, Declan and the novel’s anti-hero, Travis McGuiggan. It’s a book about friendship, religion, drinking, cruelty and love. It’s also a book about leaving home and returning. . . .
Rumil Bonamede considered herself one of the finest hackers in the galaxy, searching for information on a mass genocide of her birthworld more than twenty staryears ago. Left with barely any memories of her childhood before the day that would be known as the Baramak Slaughter, she takes on increasingly risky endeavors into Solarian and Kiros influence and information centers, . . .
Millions of years ago, millions of parsecs from Earth, two galaxies in the Virgo Supercluster collided. Nearly two million years from now, however, two civilisations – the Shango and the Qareen – each dominating half of the resulting collision, will fight the brutal Intersection Wars for dominance of the galaxy. Yet it’s what will come afterwards that will prove to . . .
Currently there are only 10 parts of “Battle of Amsterdam” posted in .pdf’s, but the story looks like it will be interesting. It takes place in a future where humans have colonized other planets and some cities have become autonomous. The narration follows five separate plot lines which will presumably interweave as the story progresses.
Magestic is a sprawling sci-fi story covering the decades between the 1980s and 2025 or so. The idea is ambitious, to show how one time traveller affected the history of the world, and the text is certainly in-depth. The story is in 18 parts and the first two are over 200 pages each, so we’re talking thousands of pages here.