Though pompous with its modern advancements, Sybar City has always fostered a seedy underbelly stretching back millennia. Glory, a humble scholar with a talent for occult research, is unwillingly thrust into this world of ancient malevolent races and scientific exploitation. A girl with issues, she would just as soon crawl into a bookshelf and never come back out, leaving a . . .
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 . . .
‘The Great Game’ is a work of interactive fiction, a particpatory story where you’re in charge of what happens next. I write a bit. You tell me what happens next, then I go off and write that, and give you your next choice. I’ll let the narrator sum up the story : “I woke up in a deserted . . .
Everything you know is wrong- there are plenty of gods but no afterlife, wizards plot rebellion against eldritch horrors with marketing departments, the Chinese Mafia runs the phone company, every tarot card is a prophesy waiting to happen and most vampires live in trailer parks. Read on to visit a world where every cliche is a parable, every fairy . . .
Dylan and the Dream Pirates, by Jason Andrew, is an on-line fantasy novel about a boy named Dylan recovering from the death of his mother. An accidental meeting with the mythical Lost Boys throws him into a world of magic and wonder. When he discovers that his best friend Clay has a magical disease called the Taint, Dylan swears to . . .
Seventeen-year-old Sidonie Ardash is leaving her home in Uptown Rivalie, headed for the Bromian Ghetto, a forbidden place she has only read about in the pages of a book written by her mother. She finds a new home, a new family, and a new life in the haunted world of the Broms, a people displaced and cursed by unknowable . . .
In the world that never really belonged to humans, time is running out. It is a strange feeling in the air and many men have their-own dreams about how to change it. One, a strange, unknown man even to people who are working for them is working on a top secret project in the near future, trying to overcome . . .
All over the world, Knights are appearing. They have swords. They ride horses. They wear shining armour. They’re causing trouble. Nobody knows where they came from or why they’re here—even the Knights themselves are pretty vague on the matter. However, they’re not about to let that get in the way of their crusading. They have a Law to uphold. . . .
Stories with a nice dose of the unusual: A demon who rebels against Lucifer; a girl whose family adopts a robot; childhood friends who reunite on board a space elevator. Science fiction and fantasy, with occasional dips-of-the-toe into other genres. The main blog also includes drawings and comments on writing. . . .
Crossed Genres is a monthly magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Crossed Genres puts out an issue every month that is free to read online. Each issue has (usually, with a bit of variance) 5 short stories, 1 article and cover art. The final issue of each year is double-sized. Every issue has a unique “theme” which all . . .
There is yet another attempt on God’s life. Gabriel appoints champions to his defence. Follow the son of the north wind, a casino royal, and someone who’s actually competent as they attempt to locate a gang of shotgunchuck wielding assassins and put a stop to their Deicidal ambitions. This is a serious and adult movie in which . . .
Sarah Suleski’s previous web serial Alysiad and its continuing sequel, Queen of Seven, were highly acclaimed by many readers, who will be excited to check out her latest work.
It seems to take place in an paralell universe, because instead of the Rom (gypsies) we have the Brom. They also [more . . .]
Summary: The Rapture is coming.
Likes: Despite it’s size, it is a relatively easy read. I’m not too big on scripts, but this one reads somewhat like a novel. It’s more of a script-novel hybrid with the descriptions and details like a novel, but the dialogue of a script. Then there [more . . .]