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Denver, Colorado is known for many things: it’s a growing, thriving mid-sized city with a vital arts community and music scene. There are some pretty good restaurants if you know where to look, and the rents are (relatively) cheap. What Denver doesn’t have is the world (and sometimes galaxy) at-stake, super-hero daring-do that happens in the bigger cities along . . .
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The story of galactic Bounty Hunter, Ghost, and his efforts to track down a rogue magic user who seems to be running as far away as he can, killing anyone that gets in his way. . . .
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The Descendants is web serial styling itself after a comic book universe, right down to a format that included minis, annuals and one shot stories. The central plot follows the lives of a group of superpowered individuals (psionics) as they attempt to live together following a betrayal by the organization supposedly meant to protect them. Interpersonal relationships take as . . .
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They descended from the trees . . . But fell short of the stars They plummeted to Earth trailing flames and screams. And emerged from the ruins of their ship to find a world finer and greener than the deepest, oldest dreams of their race’s life aloft . . . but had no idea it was inhabited. And no preparation for the fact that the biggest . . .
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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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On the planet Elidi, Chikamuyo Academy is a new military academy but it has already attracted a unique collection of students and staff. It is the only school that specializes in teaching control of the planet-energy eisra. The senior class is preparing to graduate and join the military when tragedy strikes and presses them into service for their planet earlier . . .
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Dave set up a blog to communicate with his girlfriend while he was away doing research at a top secret facility. A blog that I discovered while hacking that facility’s computer system. Then one day, Dave disappears and all of his friends and family assume that he’s dead. But somehow Dave keeps writing in his blog. Now I’m the only . . .
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Marin Astoris had a vision a few years ago, of a mushroom cloud rising beyond the university’s iconic clocktower. A voice whispered in her ear, take a breath and wait to die. That vision never came to pass. Something else happened instead: an asteroid, a botched attempt to stop it from hitting earth, and a resulting cataclysm that left only . . .
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The last Ilandu Wars ended over a century ago. Yet the Diot Republic still fights to regain its former glory. Its obstacles are many, its resources few. In this Dark Age, an Ilandu cult has risen. They are promised power. They are promised control. They are promised the secrets of the Blessed. Who shall rescue the fragile . . .
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A reader-directed, sci-fi/action web serial about the teleporting subspecies Homo sapiens nictans. . . .
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A serialized novella about a girl’s journey of self-discovery, set in a future world of oysters, pearls and magic. Mirra is a magic user, but her gift is scorned by the menfolk in her village. Men are allowed to use magic; women are not. So, after a tumultuous event, Mirra decides to leave and heads for the City to continue . . .
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In a time that Might-Have-Been but Never Was, steam power and clockwork mechanisms commanded the might of science and harnessed nature. Fantastic creatures were common, myths were truth and airships crossed the skies. This is the story of one of those airships. . . .
In 1918 Standard Count, the lead singer of Tapestry, Eràsis, jumped to her death at the Great Falls. One day later, the most devastating and thorough computer virus in history erased almost all data connected to her. Only her music and several fragmentary interviews remain. Amkzí, a canyon woman living at the close of the twenty-first century, embellished . . .
It is hard to classify The Antithesis. I would say, so far, it is a supernatural sci-fi horror with undertones of romance. I hesitated between giving this story 3.5 or 4 stars as there isn’t much up yet (only 6 chapters) and I was a little hesitant about rating something highly with so little up. But The Antithesis has strong [more . . .]
Corvus takes place in a world where two types of humans exist, the superior (homo cognocens), and supposedly inferior (homo sapiens). In this story, Zach is of the superior breed, while Laura is what we’d consider a normal human.
At its heart, Corvus is a tale of two young people from [more . . .]