What if we were the first in our part of the galaxy to discover the secret of faster than light travel? What if this discovery was 10,000 years before it was supposed to be? Our neighbors had been watching for centuries and were surprised with our early arrival into the Web of Worlds... The Year is 2166: To the people of Earth, the universe seemed to be a very lonely place. Astronomers have discovered tens of thousands of planets; many had indications of organic life. SETI had been searching for signals for over 200 years. There had been a few tantalizing bits of radio or radar energy received but nothing ever proven to be of intelligent origin. But there was an alien civilization out there, in fact many of them linked together in a Web of Worlds. They were watching us quietly, carefully and patiently. It had long been the prime directive of the Web that no developing civilization be contacted until that civilization made it into interstellar space on their own; and that always took time, lots of time. Most Web worlds took 1,000 years or more to go from steam to the atom and none had made it from the atom to a sublight stardrive in less than 5,000 standard years. Every civilization of The Web had proven that faster than light travel was impossible, so there was plenty of time to watch the Earth... The watchers were astounded with the speed of progress of human science and also horrified at the periods of violence. By 2076 nuclear fusion power was widespread on earth. By 2100 the first interplanetary fusion ships explored the Sol system. The men and women of the Anglosphere Alliance began their first missions in ships approaching 0.1c. At that velocity, manned flight to even the nearest stars would take a lifetime. What would happen if a beautiful engineer and a brilliant physicist stumbled upon an artificial gravity field which would make a faster than light drive possible... Earthrise: 2176 A #1 Science Fiction Story Featured by wattpad

"How is poetry born? When truth seeps through the cracks. When the sender doesn't want to be clear. there's a message in it for everyone, only your part you are there to understand." A collection of poems, quotes and deep thoughts from my daily life. A group of words that rhyme that you could probably relate to. In case of grammatical errors please notify me. Featured writers will be given credit. Most photos are not mine. If you like anything, vote!

Civilization has been always considered as a positive thing. But what if it is the cause of our destruction as it was our creation in the contemporary realm. This ancient time there are always times of peace and war. There are inevitably pacifists as there are "terrorists". Since the industrial revolution, though, the balance between the negative and positive. As people began to grow, the became more selfish. Maybe the scarcity could have let to this catastrophe. People began to deceive one another. They began to form allies to fight one another. The complexity of this catastrophe began to twist. The destruction grew bigger. So where are we going? What is going to happen in the next few years if the sense of humanity is diminishing. As H. G Wells feared or as Arthur C. Clark forecasted. Is our creation becoming our destruction. Is the end of the world approaching as we know it?

"When I was born I was so small I was mistaken for a french fry. I was never an ordinary child. My best friend was a seagull. I was also illegal. Artificially intelligent people like me had been banned ever since that thing with the Twelve Elevens. Mother raised me for profit. Buyers and sellers had other plans for me, but then I grew a mind of my own. This is the story of how my brain ended up inside this box." Candles is a black-market, "artificially intelligent person" (or A.I.P., or "ape" in the colloquial sense, as in 'the planet of the'), an organic being, farm-raised on genetically engineered smoothies and destined for auction to the highest bidding criminal enterprise. Gifted with the ability to communicate with foul-mouthed seagulls and ill-tempered felines, this gender-less, age-less, race-less creature has to find its way to escape from the clutches of its mother and other assorted enemies, in this fairly exciting and ultimately utterly unexpected story.

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