The Starwalker is a starship with an experimental star-stepping drive. Designed to use the gravity wells of stars to fold space, she can travel between star systems faster than FTL. That is, if they can get it to work. She is run by a sophisticated AI who doesn’t always follow her programming. She has only just been born, and . . .
The Khandroma Project is the personal, interactive and ever-evolving portfolio of Khandroma. The Khandroma Project has it all from experimental/hybrid fiction to poetry to stream-of-consciousness writing. Come on in, kick off your shoes, grab a cup of tea and get comfy! Comments, feedback, and constructive criticism are encouraged at The Khandroma Project where dialogue is nurtured. Art is a conversation; . . .
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 . . .
When a monster decides to spare the life of a child, he changes the fate of kingdoms, curtails an expanding empire, restores a lost royal dynasty, and most especially, alters his own life forever. Ja’kh’redd, a monstrous Vidos, was out hunting when he came across an orphaned human child amidst the ruins of a recently destroyed caravan. Taking pity . . .
This novel follows the lives of three separate characters as they deal with a great societal upheaval. . . .
When Johnathan Dart, digital artist and world-builder, falls in love with a digital sapience living inside Irokai, the virtual world created by the Tadashiissei Corporation, his friends are skeptical of his intention to upload himself into their system. Adam doubts that the soul can survive a destructive copy, and Julia doubts that Tadashiissei’s corporate policies are anything close to user-friendly. . . .
Alex dreams of being more than human. Shadowdance sometimes remembers he is more than wolf. Briar wishes she could be nothing more than rabbit. Watcher looks after those who tread these lines. A trucking accident sends a wave of toxic sludge and smoke through the Protectorate of Shadowdance, a Child of Wolf that has Pledged himself to protect the . . .
Welcome to Crescent Manor. Where the rent is cheap and your neighbours are dead to the world.—The Landlord Mark and Nathan Connor are twins, but in name only. There is little to connect them, save their current residence in Crescent Manor, an old building situated in the centre of a mid-sized city. They are unaware the tenants of . . .
[May 4 2010. Note: I reviewed this story when there was only 10 episodes up. Now that Season 1 has drawn to a close at 34 episodes, I thought to update my original review to reflect the story as a whole.]
As is the case with many character-driven stories, 314 Crescent [more . . .]
Starwalker is the new web fiction project by Melanie Edmonds author of “The Apocalypse Blog” which I reviewed here in the past, and in my opinion it’s a much stronger project.
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The concept. A ship’s log told by the ship [more . . .]