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Mayan Calendar Girls by Team 2012

An Episode Each Week Until The End Of The World

A four book countdown until the Mayan Calendar’s last date, 20/12/2012. A rambling maze of several connecting stories, all involving some attractive young women and wild-assed guys.  And all, without knowing it, in pursuit of the mystery of the End Of Time. The lovely young Mayanologist, the rapacious lesbian industrial spy, the ReElect Obama manipulators, the dolphin groupie, . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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Akačehennyi on a Diet of Dreams by Kayleigh Ayn Bohémier

The Story of a Heartbeat

Akačehennyi on a Diet of Dreams is an epistolary science fiction novel that follows Salus, an ambitious woman who dreams of political achievement.  She has moved to the capital to work for one of the founders of the Progressive Movement, a party known for its controversial attitudes about technology and interstellar travel. Her chance for recognition comes one evening . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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The Philosopher in Arms by Karen Wehrstein

A novel of power, love, war and spirit

The Philosopher in Arms is the massively-revised version of my two traditionally-published fantasy novels, Lion’s Heart and Lion’s Soul (Baen Books, 1991) set in the “Fifth Millennium” world collaboratively created with S.M. Stirling and Shirley Meier. Almost 3,000 years after a human-made cataclysm reduced both human population and technology back to primitive levels, civilization is rising again slowly.  Here . . .

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Guts and Sass by M.E. Traylor

An Anti-Epic

Guts and Sass is the story of when semi-suicidal vet Hannah Roverton gets transported to a magical land, thus abandoning her cat, her sister, and her therapist. Except actually, it’s not. Welcome to a land embroiled in war and invasion with a pinch of magic, meet pirates, shapeshifters, and chicks with swords. Now throw your expectations out the window. Got . . .

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asa kraiya by Karen Wehrstein

What would you do . . . to live?

asa kraiya is the sequel “that never should have happened” to my two traditionally-published fantasy novels, Lion’s Heart and Lion’s Soul (Baen Books, 1991).  Greatest of warriors and greatest of leaders, Fourth Chevenga Shae-Arano-e lives “the life of other men’s dreams”—except that he faces certain death by the age of thirty. When a healer with the gift of seeing . . .

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Captive Prince by Freece

Damen is the true heir to the throne, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity and sent to serve the prince of a rival nation as a pleasure slave. . . .

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The Khann of Mann by Andrew Compton

Wall Street, Corruption, Dubai, Market Manipulation

Khann of Mann is a fictional account of an uncompromising Wall Street investment banker and the human interest storyline as he wrestles with life, laws and love on a global scale.  The novel is less about Wall Street, rather man’s pursuit of his desires and the consequences those pursuits create.  Christopher Khann is a self-taught genius who can resist everything . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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Commercial Novel by Anonymous

From desperation, art.

An experimental novel combining crass commercialism, reader response, and time-tested themes like love, fear, and desperation. . . .

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Night Switch by Flak

"From the darkness in my heart, a violent awakening!"

Joe works the night shift at a government train corporation in New York.  Jason monitors surveillance cameras in the San Francisco Bay Area for the Department of Homeland Security.  The thing connecting them?  The subject of Joe’s adoration and Jason’s surveillance: a college student whose casual purchase of a book from craigslist becomes the catalyst for an insane adventure across . . .

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Dominion by JL Bryan

In a near-future, totalitarian America, a TV “news” reporter begins to uncover how the regime uses propaganda and psychological operations to control the minds of the public. Note: Only the first five chapters are available on the website.  The complete novel is available as a PDF. . . .

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New World Orders by Edward G. Talbot

The moon launch.  The Challenger disaster.  The Lewinsky scandal.  And global warming.  Someone’s behind it all, and it’s not for anything as mundane as corporate profits or political power.  Join Jack Crowley and Jim Patterson as they race to stop the conspiracy before it’s too late.  And maybe, just maybe, save the world. . . .

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THE PHILOSOPHER IN ARMS

Description of a Warrior’s Life

Editor: Linda Schoales
November 20, 2009

“The Philosopher in Arms” is a fantasy novel written from the point of view of a great warrior-leader looking back on his life.  Fourth Chevenga Shae-Arano-e’s people, the Yeola, live in a pre-industrial society where the Assembly makes the rules and the decisions, but the semanakraseye acts in times of war.  Chevenga is the son of a semanakraseye, and has [more . . .]

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THE PHILOSOPHER IN ARMS

I Need a Hero!

Member: GreenGlass
August 3, 2009

Update: If anyone is interested, I have a brief perspective response to the most recent editorial review.  In reference to PA’s first chapters, I find the supporting characters far from dry, the culture fascinating (although definitely not as individualistic as Americans are used to), the conversations invigorating, and the pace perfect for me, since I absolutely love childhood and training/schooling [more . . .]

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