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World Wulin by CharlesSmith9
World Wulin
CharlesSmith9
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  • Parts 9
Nearly every culture on Earth harbors a secret underworld of fighters who adhere to ancient codes of honor and practice impossible martial arts. From the jianghu of the kung fu masters of China, to el bosque lucha of the luchador heroes of Mexico, the fencing schools of old world Europe, the martial arts underground of the United States prison system, the hidden subculture of the last Japanese samurai and beyond. In the modern era a mysterious patron seeks to unify these fighting worlds into a single "World Wulin", and warriors from across the planet find themselves drawn into a web of intrigue that runs far deeper than settling the question of who is the strongest fighter in this generation. (Mobile Phone Users: If dialogue in certain chapters is not displaying it's because your phone browser is parsing the chevrons I use to denote non-English spoken language as HTML. You'll have to try reading on a computer or tablet until some kind of fix is found.)
Everything You Know Is Wrong by CharlesSmith9
Everything You Know Is Wrong
CharlesSmith9
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  • Parts 21
Felix is shunted through time, and learns the secret history of the world: aliens begrudgingly created humanity to clean up after an accident, there were at least 5 World Wars and one of them involved magic, Elvis built the pyramids, and other completely historically accurate events. Open your eyes and see through the swamp gas.
Spirit Hackers by AaronCrocco
Spirit Hackers
AaronCrocco
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  • Parts 3
Anyone Evan Ellis touches dies in less than a minute. This unexplained ability has littered his past with a trail of lifeless bodies. But learning to control his "gift" is the least of Evan's worries. Someone knows his secret and they're coming for him. When he's abducted and awakes in a building far below the streets of Manhattan, Evan is told of a groundbreaking discovery. It is here that Oben, a calm and methodical scientist, has spent the last ten years on an experiment that will change the course of mankind: a machine that can open a portal to the afterlife. Using this NOVA technology, anyone will be able to speak to the dead. He needs one last piece to make it work: Evan. Oben promises to teach Evan to control his ability in exchange for his help with the experiment. But when they learn of a forgotten colleague's dangerous plan to build his own NOVA technology, Evan has no choice but to join Oben, learn to use his ability for good, and stop an experiment that will kill thousands. SPIRIT HACKERS is the first novel of its kind mixing the action & technology of a technothriller with the metaphysical & mystical by exploring the afterlife. It all comes together for an adventure that's part cyberpunk, part revenge, and all amazing. Add SPIRIT HACKERS on GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26010175-spirit-hackers Want to read the entire story NOW? Get your copy today from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012Z1OF9I
The Numbered by bnlfan
The Numbered
bnlfan
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  • Parts 76
Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind. Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endures a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers, but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk. "The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one". Authors notes: -This is a first draft of my story and will be edited soon. -2013 Began writing Flawed -2015 Watty Winner/ Named changed to The Numbered -2016 Completed The Numbered -2019 Optioned by eOne for development into a TV show.
Homeland by CoryDoctorow
Homeland
CoryDoctorow
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  • Parts 25
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.
Bob Moore: No Hero by TomAndry
Bob Moore: No Hero
TomAndry
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  • Parts 11
Super powered humans started appearing 30 years ago. Now, they are everywhere. Bob Moore, Private Eye, dares to investigate those who could incinerate him with a thought. When he is called to help a super from his past, however, he'll be pushed to his limit. When supers and the police think there is no crime, can he get to the truth? Will he want to for the man that destroyed his marriage? What People are saying about Bob Moore "The most delicious "superhero" themed book I've read. The world is incredibly deep, believable, and realistic with its own rules and terminology. The characters come alive and make you feel." -Vitaly Alexius, Creator Romantically Apocalyptic "This was quite an enjoyable read. When you cross a gritty gumshoe with spandex superheros, their two worlds collide in spectacular fashion." -Jeffrey Hendricks, Author Seeking the Heavens "The book is fast and keeps your interest. This was the first book that as I approached the end, I started getting a feeling of dread that the end was coming up and at the same time I had to find out the finale. What an enjoyable sensation."
Little Brother by CoryDoctorow
Little Brother
CoryDoctorow
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  • Parts 29
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.
Chrono Virus by AaronCrocco
Chrono Virus
AaronCrocco
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  • Parts 7
It was supposed to be just another cargo run, but for Ken Mallory and the three-person crew of the Raven, an anomaly in deep space changes everything. An unexplained turbulence shakes the small ship like never before, allowing a deadly virus aboard. One by one the infected crew is thrown back in time to relive a near-death experience, only this time death may be closer than they remember. *** Add CHRONO VIRUS on GoodReads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16135280-chrono-virus FINISHED THIS STORY AND WANT **MORE**? Read CHRONO VIRUS: FALL OF THE HORIZON for **FREE** at my website www.AaronCrocco.com. Want to own a copy of Chrono Virus? Pick it up here: Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Chrono-Virus-Aaron-Crocco-ebook/dp/B00A67U070/ Is AUDIO more your speed? Get CHRONO VIRUS on audio now from: Audible: http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Chrono-Virus-Audiobook/B00P6SM2NE InEar Entertainment: https://www.inearentertainment.com/shop/chrono-virus
The Second To Last Human Alive by CharlesSmith9
The Second To Last Human Alive
CharlesSmith9
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  • Parts 9
An extraordinarily lucky man is blasted into space and killed in a freak accident, only to be revived nine apocalypses later to find himself one half of the last remnants of humanity. Now he and a woman from this strange future must travel through time in order to escape from an intergalactic zoo run by shapeshifting bugs, passing through all the really good ends-of-the-world along the way. Now a featured story!