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A camp-out goes impossibly wrong...
(Wordcount: 1246 - Reads: 41) - Published:August 26, 2010
(Wordcount: 7626 - Reads: 443) - Published:July 17, 2010
(Wordcount: 6342 - Reads: 93) - Published:July 14, 2010
(Wordcount: 3816 - Reads: 182) - Published:June 17, 2010
In which Kit gets a crossed line...
The Convention opened Earth's way to the stars. Now, an old enemy strikes back...
When the Progressive Vampires needed a RogueBane, they turned to the only HomoSaps they could trust-- The School of Tropical Medicine.
In which an Evil Mage meets his nemesis...
(Wordcount: 61 - Reads: 188) - Published:February 25, 2010
(Wordcount: 47 - Reads: 114) - Published:February 25, 2010
In which a delectable Prize presents itself...
{ Short-Short }
In which the gentle land of Faerie has an unusual problem...
In which we meet thieves, Ogres and some unusual werewolves...
Long, long ago, when modems were acoustic and D&D was played with real dice, I had a dream...
It always fell to me to keep Jay out of trouble...
{Now Complete. ;-}
There's one guaranteed way to time-travel-- But it does take time...
Led by oracular signs, the Orloc of Robur sought across Parallels for a girl who'd make his Hold supreme. One snag: Such Portents may be *strictly* true.
Caught by an electrical blast, Pete Jones wakes as some-one else, some-one in terrible trouble...
A student wakes to nightmare...
(Wordcount: 14950 - Reads: 1276) - Published:August 18, 2009
Bizarre events enmesh two strangers. As they play their unwanted roles, coincidences mount...
A young heiress re-builds her life...
Paired with 'Then' and 'Bound'...
The best laid plans...
A Care-Bot's breakdown has unexpected consequences.
Across the bare strew call bright Gs, One to Eight,
Clear 'cross the Dearth shine those Beacons, and wait ...
(Wordcount: 623 - Reads: 223) - Published:July 01, 2009
Beware the Scholar...
A Game ? A Test ? Or a Service ??
There's possible, and there's practicable...
Very plausible Vampires.
My Reviews
This story tells the beginning of Felix Stormhawk's amazing adventures! It describes the first meeting between him and one of his most trusted crewmembers:...
An ordinary girl finds out that the world is way stranger than she thought. After a mysterious warrior rescues her from the hands of a murderer, she...
Author's Response:
Thank you.
The speaker remembers times spent in an artificial world.
Creeping madness, the veil between this world and cosmic horror beyond telling is brushed aside. The first thing I've written in... three years? My...
FWIW, weird dreams often have a crazy logic of their own. Some of my best, uh, strangest notions are best described as 'Wake, Grabbing For Notebook'...
It's when they recur and/or intrude on Reality that you gotta wonder...
Now, does he wander into a car-boot sale or flea-market and stumble upon one of these books ??
Author's Response:
I haven't decided where he'll start finding journals, or if they'll even figure into this story. I do plan on the assembled characters finding a spellbook at the end, though.
I imagine the journals (while they do exist) are extremely rare and either belong to wealthy collectors or cultists waiting for the stars to align.
A spy and an assassin seek to maintain stability in the trouble Star Empire of Ran.
Naturally, all hangs by a thread of ignorance: If people cross-check their info, entire edifice collapses...
In the year 2053, a new way of instant transportation has been invented. Nanotechnology allows people to travel all around the world in the blink of...
I daren't comment on dialogue attribution, but I would ask for spaced paragraphs.
When a strange man comes into Elizabeth's bookshop looking for a rare book, little does she realise that she will soon be dragged into a world of ritual...
More, please ?
ps: I'd be rummaging two shelves further along, evincing quiet glee as I found a well-thumbed, mildew-spotted book of Engineering Mechanisms from 1918 to complement an as-new Kempe on 'Living Underground'...
Author's Response:
Thank you very much! This hasn't been an easy book to start, since it all has to be 'normal' and the weirdness creep in slowly... needless to say, I don't do 'normal' very often.
I have to admit that the whole 'old tome of forbidden, ancient lore' is definitely something I daydream about - I'm thinking something Necronomicon-y... XD
The city of Gotham awakes to a new era
I like the tale so far.
ps: Give your spiel chequer a kick ?
What an insane world this is, I thought, and as I looked out at the waves that were lapping mildly at the shore, I couldn't help but shake...
IMHO, writing combat scenes is as hard as crafting tight verse, and you've done well.
ps: course / coarse animal hair.
Author's Response:
thx! IMHO? and yeah i always get that wrong
[Reviews - 1](Wordcount: 3117 - Reads: 182) - Published:February 27, 2010
In the future science may become obsolete as cybernetics, the net, and AI outpace the peer review process of testing hypothesis by empirical means.
I'll still have to read it again when my headache's gone away...
FWIW, 'research' by multi-dimensional mapping of data and seeking patterns there-in is not new. Automated testing with multiple variables can generate far more data than a person can hope to comprehend, while automatic pattern recognition plus 'genetic algorithms' can home in on a 'sweet spot' solution. That's just shy of a 'brute force' approach, but may throw up unexpected wonders.
Of course, the result may only be as good as the model, and in-vivo testing then clinical trials *must* complement 'in-vitro' testing...
Four ladies of the court discuss the different types of scandal.
Author's Response:
:-)
Askura has lost its Queen, who guards the entrance to the Underworld. The fate of Askura now lies within the hands of its new, reluctant guardian.
Edited...
Author's Response:
There will be more. Working on the 3rd chapter now.
[Reviews - 1](Wordcount: 22166 - Reads: 32) - Published:January 14, 2010
On Paradise people farm the dangerous plants like cattle controlling them and keeping the jungle out with electric fences and domes, but something is...
Daleks scared me, but Wyndam's Triffids terrified me-- They could seed 'thistle-down', you see, then strike from any hedge-row, strike for the eyes...
Some rough patches, especially introducing the 'Outpost', but a fascinating eco-system, with plausible, self-consistent tech and a pending SolarMax plus obligate roving psycho...
Lovely stuff !!
ps: ariel / aerial
Author's Response:
Its still an expanding idea, lots to look at and research, and i have basically just banged it out over the past week or so having been snowed in :) I will take another look at it. Thanks alot for reading and taking the time to give me your thoughts.
A young veternarian is more than she seems and so is her newest patient.
A team of 'Rangers,' state-sponsered scavengers, navigate the dangerous, irradiated seas of post-apocalyptic fame. Or, they will, if I ever finish writing...
Sounds like the episode of Deadwood I tried to sit through, which probably makes it realistic...
Amber Lake Hospital...an asylum and prison rolled up all into one and funded by an unknown organization of people. The year is 1999, the month is October...
I've seen places like that after they've been re-purposed to mainstream-- But, somehow, their ghosts' screams linger...
Remind M to take his pipe ?
Author's Response:
Thank you!
Michael does take his pipe back in the next chapter. XD
A poem I just wrote, hope you like it.
Author's Response: Thanks :P
fantasy world where various cults are on the brink of war, the theft of one stauette by an unclanned threatens to shatter the uneasy peace.
Also primes readers for the level / style of magic in that society...
Nice pace, too.
Will read even better after spiel-chequer recovers from the Christmas Pud...
;-)
[Reviews - 2](Wordcount: 6069 - Reads: 435) - Published:February 10, 2010
A mysterious figures plays a series of deadly games with a young boy.
Author's Response:
Kilo is a tricky little minx but she has a purpose behind it all.
[Reviews - 2](Wordcount: 6069 - Reads: 435) - Published:February 10, 2010
A mysterious figures plays a series of deadly games with a young boy.
Just a draft of a backstory on a series im going to be writing. Just tells a little bit of where their coming from and the event that made do the things...
Ryvor makes a deal with a spirit-possessed artifact. But is it worth the price?
An artist runs into a Walking God but doesn't get exactly what he was after...
(This is the second introduction story to the Godstars. It is...
Daniel Krane recieves a letter from his astranged father that leads him back into his own past and onto a new future.
Reads like a Classic 'Golden Age' SF Tale !!
Thank You !!
A lowly employe of the Collection Agency finds himself in a sticky situation.
And, as some-one who's sat through a lot of Dr Who time-loops and paradox stuff, nicely done !
A Walking Warrior finds refuge in a mountain monastary during troubled times.
Wow, they must have really, really dark skies. I've only seen Milky Way *once*...
Um, how does the StarDial and its fixed holes deals with seasons ??
Author's Response:
I figured the monks would chose a location for the Stardial where starlight was strongest, someplace away from civilization and where seasonal weather wouldn't affect them very much.
As the world rips itself apart before him, bringing his life into utter chaos Yolan struggles to save the world while barely being able to...
Um, watch the baulky spiel-chequer and continuity...
Author's Response:
What do you mean by continuity?
(Wordcount: 1984 - Reads: 38) - Published:August 17, 2009
A dystopian world, maybe next year, maybe centuries from now. The world is a different place, yet not much has changed. Beggars roam the streets, children...
I know you'll tweak it recursively, so that's factored in, too...
Mercedes Deville and Morgan Starr are nearly at the end of their rope. Not only were they not paid for the last job. They had managed to have their...
Ch#1 + 2... So far, so good. More, please ?
Author's Response:
thanks have more posted now
What I do during my work day is none of my boss' business
ROFL !!
Gah !! I had paper-work like that ! Hundreds of pages per HPLC re-certification, checking case-reference, page sequence and math, sign and date, sign and date, sign and date...
If left severely alone, I could do three or four a day during 're-cert' season. Aye. If the money and benefits weren't so good...
The forces of earth have to surrender to an alien race, but the man forced to sign the treaty has to come to terms with its one horrifying condition.
Scary and, IMHO, very well written.
IIRC, this is called a 'Devil's Alternative'...
Um, I hope those slugs are going very far, very fast because HomoSap Astronauticus is so gonna put salt on their tails...
Journal entrys of some one who wakes up and everyone is gone except her and her 8mo old daughter.
More, please ??
