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The Cats Vendor by Strinth
The Cats Vendor
Strinth
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The following is a work of fiction. #14 in Science-Fiction Charts Plebeian humanoid and MOR fan Chadwick Skillington-Symthe alternates between profundity and general bafflement. 25 Years after near global obliteration, humanity has abandoned war, weapons and politicians. World governance and resource allocation are handled by advanced artificial intelligence. In an affluent suburb of Kinshasa, a group of housemates make their living around the trade and use of a psychedelic fungus found only in the flooded former cobalt mines. The fungus allows ongoing exploration of alternative dimensions for mankind's progression through the outer reaches of the galaxy. Recent accidents in the underwater mines suggest man is not the only species interested in the area. But events closer to home are of more concern to young, hard working Manchitas who is about to have his world turned upside down when his oldest friend, Mr. Chopolopolis, gets dick cancer.
UNSPOKEN: Undone Realms Book 3 by amberkbryant
UNSPOKEN: Undone Realms Book 3
amberkbryant
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Book Three of the award-winning Undone Realms Series! Clara and Nolan have been living happily together in their hotel-sized pocket realm for almost a year. But is everything truly all right now? Clara has her doubts. Something seems...off to her. This feeling only intensifies when a stranger shows up at the hotel. He can't see them, but he seems to know they're there. The day Nolan split himself in two, he leaves the hotel with a goal in mind and an empty place in his heart. It doesn't take long for all of his plans to be tossed to the wind. Rather than the Canadian border, he finds himself crossing into an entirely new universe where he unwittingly becomes part of a multiverse rescue mission. Avie is in exile. From her daughter. From Marcella. With Oliver and her family gone, Avie is forced to live out years in a world that has grown increasingly hostile to everything she holds dear. Her only desire is to survive long enough to be able to return to her daughter. But when a dangerous man shows interest in her, she fears all of her efforts will end with a noose around her neck. Interconnected stories in multiple realities; escapes, rescues, murder-all converging in a climax that may save one world while destroying another. Welcome to the conclusion of the Fold Series!
UNHEEDED: Undone Realms Book 2 by amberkbryant
UNHEEDED: Undone Realms Book 2
amberkbryant
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A Wattpad Featured story! (Note: UNHEEDED is the second story in the Undone Realms Series. However, this story can be read first as it has a stand-alone storyline.) Meet new characters...explore the Dual Realms...discover how Clara became unseen. When the impossible is made possible, Avie, the stepdaughter of a realm worker, finds herself transported to an apple orchard on a world that is not her own. There she stumbles upon Oliver, a migrant laborer who assumes Avie is from the city. Only years later when Avie is able to return to Oliver's realm does he realize she's learned to stepped through the Fold separating their dual realities. Oliver can't stop thinking about Avie or the world she comes from. Together they carry out a plan to bring him through the Fold so that they can be together. But this plan is not without serious risks. In Avie's world, people from other realities are not welcome. While the threat of persecution threatens them from the outside, an internal struggle grows within Oliver as well. When this struggle intensifies, the two must decide whether sanity and freedom are too high a price to pay in order to be together.
Tevun-Krus #13 - TeslaPunk by Ooorah
Tevun-Krus #13 - TeslaPunk
Ooorah
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A host of writers and thinkers here at @Ooorah have taken on TeslaPunk SciFi! Tune in for this month's electrifying, all-original issue of Wattpad's SciFi e-zine: Tevun-Krus!
How to Write Science Fiction by ScienceFiction
How to Write Science Fiction
ScienceFiction
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"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 and writing science fiction, and writing in general. If nothing else, I hope it inspires you to try your hand at writing Science Fiction if you haven't already.
Greats of Science Fiction by ScienceFiction
Greats of Science Fiction
ScienceFiction
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This collection of writer profiles aims to showcase the history and lives behind some of the greatest Science Fiction writers the genre has seen. From the early 'greats' and 'masters' of the Science Fiction world to some of the 'genre shakers' who have revolutionised how SF is viewed; from Dystopian to Steampunk, via Space Opera and Hard SF, we will try to showcase the wonderful world of Science Fiction through its many writers, both past and present.
Harbor: a Freeze-Dried Fiction Contest Entry by amberkbryant
Harbor: a Freeze-Dried Fiction Contest Entry
amberkbryant
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It takes a con to know a con. Or possibly, it takes a woman meeting a con to figure out she’s married to a con. This is my entry for Margaret Atwood’s Freeze-Dried Fiction Contest. Take a look at Atwood’s story, THE FREEZE-DRIED GROOM, on which this story is based and then come back to mine. Thanks for reading!
Homeland by CoryDoctorow
Homeland
CoryDoctorow
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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.
Little Brother by CoryDoctorow
Little Brother
CoryDoctorow
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.
Competition entry for The Freeze-Dried Groom Fanfiction by hardymilts
Competition entry for The Freeze-Dried Groom Fanfiction
hardymilts
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My entry for Margaret Atwood's Freeze-Dried Fiction contest. This fanfiction is an ending for her story The Freeze-Dried Groom.