"If this is heaven, why am I alone?" ... Courier, Max Jones has spent twelve years traveling to a secret refinery to receive a special cargo. When he arrives, nothing is as it is meant to be ... #futureAlchemy #augmentedHuman #churchmen #metahuman #technopath #paradiseLost **** 'Companionship, Beyond Flesh' is a galaxy-cyber space opera serial written for Wattpad and was awarded a Watty in 2014 for continuing story. Cover art: @VietFamwang

The human race is sending probes out into space to look for alien lifeforms. The humans are the aliens. Your scientists have it all wrong. Your government is lying to you. Your race is hiding every thing. Ana is just a normal girl... except for the fact that she is an alien who can control energy on the run from a secret government association of hunters with a computer genius and a somewhat homicidal bitch. But other than that she's completely average. Ana has spent the majority of her life looking for others of her kind and a place to call home. On her way, she will befriend two orphans with a dark past, encounter murderous hunters out to kill her just for being born and get pulled into an all-out war that will pit humans and aliens against themselves and each other. In a story about survival, acceptance and family, Ana is no chosen one. She just made a choice. {ON HIATUS}

Delaney Escott lives in a world where popularity reigns supreme. If you want to be noticed, social status is everything. The government is run by the Superiors: a very exclusive group of individuals who are virtually flawless. They are smarter than us and stronger than us, and to join their ranks is the highest honor. The Superiors pay an annual visit to the top schools in the nation and evaluate the students, choosing one boy and one girl - the most Popular in the school - to go the Capitol and train for Superiority. Delaney thinks that she's the only one indifferent to (and perhaps even suspicious of) the Superiors, until Caleb Payne, the most popular boy in school, approaches her with a request. He has a task for her, one that he believes she is uniquely capable of completing. And as she helps him, Delaney discovers that the government is hiding many secrets - and that the truth of the Superiors is far from what people believe it to be. [Watty Awards 2012 Winner, Science-Fiction: On the Rise]

The cybernetics doctor Reman Heres lives in a shocking future. As he tries to work on his next big project he meets a mysterious woman. But in an unusual manner...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state. A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus’s hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It’s incendiary stuff—and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him—but he can’t admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. He’s surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. He can’t even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He’s not at all sure that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he’s gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do. Meanwhile, people are beginning to shadow him, people who look like they’re used to inflicting pain until they get the answers they want. Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland is every bit the equal of Little Brother—a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place.

A nuclear war has destroyed the entire world, leaving it to dust and ashes. Some people managed to survive, affected by some of the radiation left behind that could not be prevented. Luckily, "gifted" human beings were born from mothers who were affected by some of the radiation. They have starry eyes that can see far into the skies, beyond the naked eye or the highest-powered telescope. They have different minds, strange, unusual, but amazing abilities. Yet, they are still human and have both the same intentions, ambitions, personalities, and such. Unfortunately, the president of the remaining humans does not agree with these starry-eyed humans. He wishes they were all dead, in fear of them growing strong and taking over. So, he is attempting to get rid of them by capturing them, captivating them, beating them and making them weak, and finally killing them off, one-by-one. Alexandra, mother of a gifted child, is doing all she can to keep her daughter safe from the cruel punishment that President Caffey is attempting to blow.

The aliens currently governing Earth took Sam and other children to be raised on their homeworld. They tell him humans have the chance to be great. They tell him he'll be a representative of his species. A hero. But the protests that follow Sam's homecoming say otherwise. He and the other cadets are both pitied and despised - anything but respected. And if Sam is going to give humanity that shot at greatness, he needs more than their attention. He needs their trust. Loosely inspired by the story of Daniel in the Bible.

Xavier Brooks is one of the best hackers in the world. Too bad the government wants him dead. Welcome to a world where your every movement is watched. Welcome to a world were your every step, your every act, your every word, is cataloged and tracked. Welcome to a world where you are just one mistake away from an instant and painful death. Welcome to Cronos. Say hello to your future. In a totalitarian world where every aspect of society is controlled by a sentient super-computer, teenage thief and outcast Xavier Brooks has learned to live his life outside of the law. Survival comes naturally to him, and he has learned to keep out of the way of those that would wish him harm. But one day, Xavier makes that one mistake. Caught in the act and stabbed in the back, Brooks finds himself slammed with the harshest of punishments: Blacklisted by the government and sentenced to public execution. With no where to turn and death staring him in the face, Xavier is forced to cooperate with a group of mysterious, powerful criminals that present him with a simple choice: join them or die. But with nothing being is as it seems, Xavier becomes tangled up in an incredible conspiracy that threatens to destroy the very fabric of society - forever. Blacklist: The Network is a high-paced, slam-bang sci-fi thriller that dares to ask how much of ourselves should we be willing to give up to do what is right, and how far is too far to save the ones that we love? Cover art by: @JLanger Blacklist: The Network is not a fan-fiction and its plot is unrelated to the show "The Blacklist" © 2012 - 2014 by: XtraCredit All Rights Reserved

Jax Flink is a computer engineer, to put it simply. His knowledge consists of taking apart computers, putting them back together, and fixing them of any hardware malfunctions. He's  not one for software problems; he'll leave that to his brother, the hacker. But when the leading CEO of technological innovations goes missing, and a virus takes over everything electrical--from street lamps to supercomputers--Jax finds himself surrounded by panicking individuals who are doing nothing to fix the problem. It's up to cool-headed Jax, his hacker brother Thane, and the rich girl next door, Meridian, to find the antivirus and stop the pandemonium that is slowly overtaking the world. [cover by the lovely starlightt] [on hold due to nanowrimo; will be back in december, don't fret]

Neuroscientist and AI programmer develop educational app that monitors feedback from toddlers using tablets to provide optimum brain stimulation via the Internet. The stimulation reduces the synaptic pruning during childhood brain development and unforeseen consequences ensue.