Billie_The_Kid's Reading List
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Writers of the Future Anthologies by GalaxyPress
Writers of the Future Anthologies
GalaxyPress
  • Reads 329,550
  • Votes 357
  • Parts 13
For twenty-five years, L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest has discovered and nurtured a steady stream of new authors who have changed the face of SF. Chosen by an impressive panel of judges drawn from the biggest names in the genre, taught at a remarkable week-long workshop, and celebrated at world-class venues such as the Kennedy Space Center, the United Nations and the Science Fiction Museum, Contest winners are given the best possible foundation for a long-standing writing career. Filled with more than a thousand spectacular images, interspersed with over one hundred success stories and testimonials, this book celebrates the first quarter century of Writers of the Future. This is truly the gold standard of SF awards. For more info, please visit: http://www.writersofthefuture.com/
Death of the Republic by hturtle
Death of the Republic
hturtle
  • Reads 4,250
  • Votes 30
  • Parts 5
Meet FBI agent Derrik Chu - the book's hero - a free-runner phenom and martial arts expert. He's bad at office politics, lousy at paperwork and hopeless with women. Thrown together with CIA linguistics genius and master of disguise Audrey Kunitz, Chu fights against billionaire villain Colonel Sherman Gale's master plan. Adding complexity is Faith, Gale's alluring, vision-plagued teenaged daughter, with the face of an angel, the body of a pin-up and an unexplainable thing for Chu.extreme runner, martial arts expert and anti-hero. Like Vince Flynn (Mitch Rapp) and Stephen Coonts (Jake Grafton)? Or James Huston, Richard North Patterson and Brad Thor? Give this a try. Death of the Republic takes place in a world ten years in the future that finds America struggling to maintain its dignity. People have had it hard and have little else to turn to but belief in God and country. Independent presidential candidate Reverend Robert Strong pulls together enough of the Christian vote to make a credible run for office. The handsome and affable Strong is backed by brother-in-law Sherman Gale, a former Marine colonel turned billionaire. Colonel Gale is being investigated by Federal agencies. When FBI Agent Derrik Chu infiltrates the flourishing Christian community on his huge ranch in Wyoming, he is quickly discovered by Gale himself. Gale finds the young agent intriguing and offers him a job. Chu gets more and more embroiled in events and the personal lives of Gale and his family, becoming strongly attached to the Colonel's children – particularly to the captivating and savvy Faith. As the election draws nearer, and it is evident that Strong is destined to lose, Gale takes matters into his own hands driven by his fervent belief that it is God's will. Follow Chu and his friends' desperate attempt to stop him, through a series of twists and turns that will keep the reader guessing until the end.
The Blackwood Conspiracy by rolf18
The Blackwood Conspiracy
rolf18
  • Reads 2,315
  • Votes 3
  • Parts 29
An ex-soldier, Tepes, and two civilians, Señor Pepe and Jojo (it's not humorous, really. The names may be changed to something more fitting.) are thrown into a dangerous world after Tepes decides that Arthur Blackwood, one of the wealthiest, and most powerful, men in the world is not who he seems to be. As their investigations into Blackwood deepens, they are discovered by a quasi-military group hellbent on destroying Blackwood any way they can, regardless of the consequences. From Panama to Paris to London to Israel to the Kola Bay, they fight Blackwood and try to stop him from executing a mysterious plan that would change the world...
Ethernet by KamikazeKid
Ethernet
KamikazeKid
  • Reads 36,629
  • Votes 1,143
  • Parts 20
Welcome to Ethernet. Welcome to the Ether: Digital glory and escape from the norm. You do not join Ethernet. The Ether joins you. Follow the rules and the Ether will become you. Break the rules and the Ether will destroy you. Invitation Only.
7:06 p.m. by InspireMe
7:06 p.m.
InspireMe
  • Reads 91,413
  • Votes 2,321
  • Parts 32
On January 4th, at exactly 7:06 p.m. Stacey Marone, Jordyn's best friend, died. She was shot, alongside her two parents in a parking lot. It was caught on the store's security camera. But now, events start to occur that make Jordyn question the truth about Stacey's death. But....she saw it on tape. She saw the video. She saw her best friend die. Or did she?
Finders Keepers by Russ_Colchamiro
Finders Keepers
Russ_Colchamiro
  • Reads 636,426
  • Votes 489
  • Parts 10
Madcap adventure? Travel, humor, sex and desire? The fate of the cosmos? Finders Keepers is the critically acclaimed backpacking buddy story of two dudes making their way through Europe and New Zealand, searching for their place in the world ... while trying not to wreck the Milky Galaxy in the process.
The P. P. A. Project by KamikazeKid
The P. P. A. Project
KamikazeKid
  • Reads 762,551
  • Votes 8,356
  • Parts 22
Pandora Paige Alexander is the main focus of what the government has cleverly named the P. P. A. Project. The project is a series of government run facilities, tests and inspections to learn and replicate a rare condition Pandora has lived with for more than 90 years and yet still has the face of a 17 year old. But what Pandora didn't expect after all these years of tests and questions is that there is more to her than simply a rare genetic condition but the key between this world and another.
The Survivors by AmandaHavard
The Survivors
AmandaHavard
  • Reads 6,320,295
  • Votes 44,782
  • Parts 46
"It's unlike any paranormal book I've read--very smart, very fresh, and very addictive, and very still in my mind." –And Anything Bookish In 1692, when witch trials gripped the community of Salem, Massachusetts, twenty-six children were accused as witches, exiled, and left for dead. Fourteen of them survived. The Survivors is the first installment of the tantalizing tales of the fourteen ill-fated Survivors and their descendants, who have been content in hiding for over three centuries. Isolated on a Montana mountainside, only Sadie, the rogue daughter, dares to abandon the family’s sacred hiding place. But no matter how far Sadie runs, something always pulls her back. On a muggy summer night in Tennessee, she witnesses a shocking scene that will change her life forever. It is the first in a sequence of events that will drag her from the human world she’s sought to belong to for over a century and send her back to her Puritanical family. Sadie is thrown toward an uncertain future filled with cunning witches, mysterious nosferatu shape-shifters, dangerous eretica and vieczy vampires, millennia-old mythology, and the search for her own mortality. After all… HOW DO YOU KILL A SURVIVOR? The Survivors will steal your heart and invade your mind. Fall into the pages of Sadie’s life, a world so frighteningly similar to your own, you’ll find yourself wanting to go to the Montana mountains to find the Survivors for yourself. And it is only the beginning. "The way Ms. Havard has taken the history of the Salem witches and made it her own is truly fascinating... great debut from a talented writer." –DJ DeSmyter, author of Hunted “[THE SURVIVORS is a…] promising debut and an incredibly unique paranormal romance. Unputdownable, engaging, realistic and dark..." –Fragments of Life Review Blog Can't wait to read the whole story? THE SURVIVORS is available for purchase now through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, the Apple iBookstore, and
Eden [Smackdown Story] by vanitycat
Eden [Smackdown Story]
vanitycat
  • Reads 1,538
  • Votes 48
  • Parts 1
A deformed circus performer leaves home in order to seek the paradise city of Eden
Final fantasy: Wings of the Phoenix by Phoenix12467
Final fantasy: Wings of the Phoenix
Phoenix12467
  • Reads 1,360
  • Votes 25
  • Parts 4
I only own Phoenix and Zane. Phoenix goes on an exciting and dramatic journey to try and save her brother Zane. Along the way she realizes her feelings for someone she's known since she was a child. Will she find her brother alive, or worse?