Welcome to the world of master fabulist Edward Morris, where History has been pulled down a Hieronymus Bosch rabbit-hole and everything makes far too much sense. In Morris’s alternate history tour de force, on an East Coast two centuries after Armageddon, a rogue soldier throws himself back in Time to wreak havoc upon History and feed on the blood in . . .
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 . . .
Eva thought she could outrun the plagues, but she was wrong. The bio-hackers that ripped the world raw are targeting her hometown of Prague, and this time there may be no escaping it. Now, hunted by police who think she’s a hacker herself, Eva must brave the rotting city streets to find her mother before it’s too late. But . . .
In 1944, Willy Horvitz was a brilliant young physicist. Fervently anti-Nazi, he was coerced into leading a research and development effort to design and build a revolutionary new aircraft to turn the tide of the war. Adopted as an orphaned American boy by a wealthy German industrialist, Willy was haunted throughout his life by the tragic loss of his mother. . . .
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 . . .
The Good Captain is a sci-fi adaptation of Herman Melville’s novella Benito Cereno, conceived for and originally distributed via Twitter. . . .
In just one morning the neatly organised world of Cory Wilson falls apart. The sun has been extinguished, plunging the Earth into total darkness. Terror reigns. Unable to think of anything else to do, Wilson places his faith in Billionaire Barry Castle’s radio announcement of a Doomsday Dome being constructed in rural Montana – a sanctuary where all who can . . .
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.