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Stuck Station by John Crandall

the ongoing sci-fi, action-adventure humor-hyphen-thingy

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 . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekdays.
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Murder In Skin City by Bryan Lamb

Murder In Skin City is a noir murder mystery set in the near future.  The interesting thing is, the protagonist is a robot.  In fact, most of the main characters are robots.  Imagine a hard-boiled detective tale mixed with an exploration of the evolution of Artificial Intelligence. There will be plenty of action, suspense, a mystery, and a sprinkling . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes 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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Space Slugs by Frances Pauli

Serial Space Opera

When Xenobiologist, Dr. Murray, receives yet another phony wedding invitation from her galaxy hopping sister, she does what any good sibling would do.  She drops her research and hops the first flight to some obscure planet at the edge of the civilized universe. But Zora’s weddings never manage to go off as planned, and before the cake is served, . . .

A serialized novel, updating fortnightly.
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Skyway Mechanix by Rick Hawthorne

Robots, Magical Girls, Ninjas … Did I mention the Robots?

A robot and an assassin team up to fight crime in the western suburbs of Minneapolis—for money, natch. And except for the evil uber-corporations and their leprechaun representative, an immortal witch and her dragon henchman, zombies, mysterious artifacts, competitive ninjas and a restaurant owner with proof that this all happens in an alternate world, things are pretty okay. . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes weekly.
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God in the Machine by Peter Tzinski

"We are forever caught in between the silent dreams of the cold machines."

God in the Machine is an ongoing science fiction series, which begins with a freak accident that brings a pair of robots out of normal operation and into . . . consciousness.  Seemingly the only ones sentient, in a whole galaxy that’s full of nothing but robots, Loeb and Max have to find their way, and survive.  Because to the rest of the galaxy, . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes fortnightly.
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The Good Captain by Jay Bushman / The Loose-Fish Project

The Good Captain is a sci-fi adaptation of Herman Melville’s novella Benito Cereno, conceived for and originally distributed via Twitter. . . .

A complete novel.
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GOD IN THE MACHINE

Metal Monsters

Editor: Miladysa
December 3, 2008

When I set eyes on the illustration for the first part of this series I expected a story about a couple of sweet little robots and their adventures in outer space.  Something along the lines of Robby the Robot meets Star Trek.  Just goes to show that you should never judge a book by its cover nor a web fiction [more . . .]

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HYPERLINK YOUR HEART

scifi shorts on humanity & virtual reality

Member: capriox
March 14, 2010

I liked the writing so far in this collection of scifi vignettes & short stories.  "The Milgram Experiment" in particular was a heart-wrenching little bit of flash fiction that I loved – lots of emotional punch in very few words.  Excellent.  The general setting for the stories seems to be a future where AIs are powerful enough to mimic human [more . . .]

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