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 . . .
A reader-directed, sci-fi/action web serial about the teleporting subspecies Homo sapiens nictans. . . .
Evan is a socially and physically awkward outcast with a vivid imagination. He lives each day through a series of imaginary adventures until one day something terrible happens. But before he can think about what has occurred, he passes out and wakes up years later only to be informed that he has tremendous power and that he is now a . . .
Five years ago, Nikol’s ship crash landed on the small planet rousing the vampiric noble, Pras from his centuries of sleep. Enamored by Nikol, Pras chose not to reveal his true identity or nature to the mortal. When war breaks out across the known worlds again, not only does Pras have to face to threat of losing Nikol forever; he . . .
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 . . .
"Listen, sugar, some things never change. Once a nigger lover, always a nigger lover. Only now they call them augers."
I have put off writing this review for the longest time. I finished Corvus at the tail end of 2009, and then had a few conversations with Lee, its author, not [more . . .]
"Strandline" features a futuristic world where the United States no longer exists, but the west coast features a Western Coalition. There’s a Republic and also independent states like Strandline, a man made island in the Gyre of the Pacific. One of the most interesting things about the way "Strandline" is written is that the details are naturally brought up in [more . . .]