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Starwalker by Melanie Edmonds

A ship's log, as told by the ship

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 . . .

An ongoing blogfic, with new posts thrice weekly.
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314 Crescent Manor by M. Jones

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 . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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The Khandroma Project by Khandroma

Tears are Condensation of Poetry in the Sky

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; . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated almost daily.
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asa kraiya by Karen Wehrstein

What would you do . . . to live?

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 serialized novel, updating weekdays.
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Kings and Monsters by Adah Biggs

A sideways fairy tale

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 . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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Proclamation by Kevin Marston

This novel follows the lives of three separate characters as they deal with a great societal upheaval. . . .

A serialized novel, updating thrice weekly.
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Child of Man by Kristina Tracer

When an industrial accident threatens the life of a Child of Nature, a group of survivors must ask a Child of Man to risk death to save him.

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 . . .

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Beautiful World by Kristina Tracer

When digital guerrillas revolt against corporate ownership of a virtual world, one person-turned-program and his closest friends are all that stand between freedom and deletion.

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.  . . .

A serialized novel, updating fortnightly.
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314 CRESCENT MANOR

eerie and atmospheric

Editor: A. M. Harte
January 9, 2010

As is the case with many character-driven stories, 314 Crescent Manor starts off a little slow, but—with only ten episodes up—it has picked up speed quite nicely.

PLOT: Mark and Nathan are brothers in name only. There is little love lost between them: any time spent together is torture for both [more . . .]

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STARWALKER

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Member: capriox
February 15, 2010

Starwalker is the AI of a new ship, and the story starts with her waking up.  However, even before she’s done booting up, she’s already got a fully loaded snark program running. 

This is a light, fun scifi tale that I am breezing through.  The posts are short, although updated frequently, [more . . .]

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