This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of "Oryx and Crake," nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best...
This is a traditional, critique-based writing group where sci-fi authors can get critical feedback, meet other sci-fi writers and gain readers for their work. Our goal is to help each other get published. We welcome authors who: * Aim to publish -- either traditionally or self * Are genuinely committed to writing the...
What would you do if your body and your kingdom were stolen? [A FEATURED STORY] Uther is a young prince who's reluctantly thrust into having to defend his throne against his usurping uncle and all-around powerful wizard, who uses his powers to steal the one thing Uther thought he couldn't take: his own body. After...
The young emperor Vengelis Epsilon narrowly escapes the reckoning of his empire at the hands of strange machines known as Felixes. The Felixes are identical in every respect to the godlike men of Vengelis's world save for their mechanical blue eyes. Feared to be indestructible, the wanton holocaust of the Felix appear...
Pete is the captain of a generation ship that has traveled the lightyears from ruined earth to its destination system. He enjoys the privileges of his rank, unwilling to risk them by attempting a landing on the planet they have been orbiting for years. Ralph, his younger brother, has spent his life in Pete's shadow, t...
SIREN is a novel about six people from around the world selected by the UN to investigate a strange musical transmission emanating from Neptune's orbit. They're given a spaceship with cutting edge technology, placed into an induced coma, and expected to report back in three years time. But when the awakened crew arriv...
In November 2013, I started writing my novel, Summoner: The Novice on Wattpad. I reached 1 Million reads within 4 months and was featured on NBC news. I was offered representation by 6 agents and my trilogy was eventually sold in auctions all over the world. It will be translated into 11 languages and was published in...
The Towers were constructed to preserve both our species and our history. The earth has been exploited, mined, ravaged and polluted to the point that survival of the human race is threatened. The governments of the world collect, sort and their people accordingly. Some are used for their intellect, their strength and...
Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, "Hamlet" dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. Cover by @vkbloodgood
"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not." - Isaac Asimov This piece is intended as a bit of a Help guide, a point of reference and hopefully something people will enjoy, as ultimately all of you will have different experiences reading...
Another Original concept piece I want to try out. Earth has been gone for thousands of years, humanity and their Extra-Terrestrial allies have lived upon a 80 colony ships for over a thousand years, however the menace that destroyed our world still haunts the survivors. And may be closer than we think. Book 1 of the A...
Cliff hates village life. His quest to slay a beast as he comes of age lets him go it alone for once. His encounter with Arlen, a lonely druid his age, brings out emotions towards guys he thought he buried long ago. The two make an epic duo and journey into unfamiliar territory together on an adventure that will chang...
A rogue scientist secretly creates the first ever matter-energy transmitter but now must test it. This is my first short story, written for a science fiction contest. Any criticism would be great! The picture on the cover is by NASA/JPL-Caltech, and I'm using it under the Creative Commons License (https://creativecom...
What Bryce Beaumont, a young researcher from California was to discover on Mykonos-that Greek island of billionaire hideaways, nude beaches and world-class nightclubs, was more than a playground for the privileged. In his probing the undercurrents of the jet-set high season, he would learn the little island was also h...
This is the saga of Penthesilea--Queen of the Amazons. What secret pact did she make so many thousand years ago for women which only now is coming true? This new novel features the ancient Amazon culture--once thought only to be a myth. Yet out of the mists of time evidence emerges that this dynamic society of all fem...
This is a collection of short stories written by Wattpadders who love their Science Fiction as much as we do. It aims to celebrate the diversity of the genre both in sub-genre, length and style, so whether you like Steampunk or Hard SciFi, Space Opera or Dystopian, fanfiction or a drabble, we know you'll find somethin...
In the distant future, on the eve of the apocalypse, a band of excommunicated monks and a blind poet travel through the harsh desert guided by the celestial comet Gods Eye, traverse the great mountain to the fabled city of Abaddon where the secrets of their pasts and the key to the future lie buried. The Church of Ae...
