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Glitch in the God Complex (AmpCore #1) | 2024 WATTYS WINNER by words_are_weapons
Glitch in the God Complex (AmpCore #1) | 2024 WATTYS WINNER
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When Piper discovers she has hidden cybernetic implants, she is inducted into the secretive AmpCore Academy to master incredible gifts, in a place where the impossible and possible collide... WINNER IN THE 2024 WATTY AWARDS AND GRAND FAVOURITE IN THE 2024 AMBYS * || WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST? || Hadrian is a city split in two. One side lives under the iron rule of competing tech corporations. The other is a wasteland, destroyed in a schism between human and artificial intelligence, stalked by code-wraiths, mad AIs and berserk cyborg abominations. When streetkid Piper is attacked by a rogue codewraith from Hadrian South, she discovers that she has hidden implants that no normal person should possess. Not willing to tolerate such an anomaly, the corporate overlords of Hadrian rip Piper out of her life and send her to the secluded AmpCore Academy, where she is set on a new path, whether she likes it or not. At the academy it quickly becomes clear that the wraith attack was no accident. Someone, somewhere, tried to murder her. Plunging into the murky world of corporate politics, academy cliques and gangland wars, Piper has to find out who wanted her dead, and stop them before they try again. || AmpCore: Book 1 || - [COMPLETED] *NB. this story contains strong language.
Crack in the Kill Code (AmpCore #2) by words_are_weapons
Crack in the Kill Code (AmpCore #2)
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While Hadrian's corporations squabble amongst themselves, something is stirring in the ruins of Hadrian South. Former streetkid Piper Russell soon finds herself facing a new enemy that has only one goal: to destroy the world she knows, and everyone in it. * || SOMETIMES THE PAST DOESN'T DIE || North of the river, Hadrian is a city reeling from a fallout between its competing tech corporations. With the tech-corps at each other's throats and rebellion beginning to fester among Hadrian's citizens, the city is reaching boiling point. Caught in the middle of a vicious, shadow-conflict, Piper finds her loyalties tested from all sides. Filled with living metal implants, owned by no corporation, and wanted by all of them, she has to tread the finest of lines to stay alive, all while trying to unravel the mystery of her origins. But while the corporations squabble, in the ruins of Hadrian South something is stirring, something much worse than any rebellion. The past has come back to haunt this city. And it has come back to take revenge. || AmpCore: Book 2 || - [Updates Every Sunday]
Blink: 3003 (Book 1) by words_are_weapons
Blink: 3003 (Book 1)
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Amber Garrett, the newest BLINK agent, is forced to prove herself when her first mission involves an alien threat that could destroy all of humanity. ***** Amber Garrett can blink teleporting herself to anywhere she wants to go which means she's a natural recruit for the galaxy-spanning BLINK organisation. Fresh out of training she's sent to a colony on the edge of space where contact has been lost. The colony's silence however isn't due to an equipment malfunction and Amber quickly discovers she's the last hope the BLINK organisation has to stop a threat to the entire galaxy. It may be her first mission but she'll have to use every ounce of her talent not just to stay alive but to prevent the destruction of all of humanity. [NB. THIS IS A WATTPAD ORIGINALS STORY] [[word count: 70 000-80 000 words]]
Blink: Leviathan (Book 2) by words_are_weapons
Blink: Leviathan (Book 2)
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After surviving the horrors of Titan Aquilla, Amber Garret and the members of Hammerhead Squad are now the most highly regarded Blink unit in the galaxy: a galaxy that is a very dangerous place. Called into action again, the crack team of operatives are this time summoned to a distant ocean planet to assist with an exploratory undersea mission. Beneath the thundering waves is an enormous city, a city inaccessible by conventional means. It falls to Hammerhead Squad to make the first steps into the ancient deep. Once they breach the aeons old world beneath the waves, however, it becomes quickly apparent that the city's inhabitants did not fade away with time. As they discover more about the lost civilisation's past, they also come across the clues that explain its sudden, violent downfall... Sequel to 'Blink: 3003' Cover graphic by @zuko_42
Blink: Phantom (Book 3) by words_are_weapons
Blink: Phantom (Book 3)
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Something is abducting human beings. The vanishings are spreading further and further throughout human-held systems and those responsible leave no traces behind. Their motives and their methods are unknown, and it is not long before Darien, Amber, and the Blink Operatives of Hammerhead Squad are drafted into an interstellar manhunt to find the perpetrators. Chasing down leads on a dozen inhabited worlds, the young operatives soon discover that the truth behind the abductions is more terrifying than any of them could have realised. Embroiled in a galactic game of cat and mouse, they must hunt down whoever is responsible before they themselves become the hunted.
Blink: Interdiction (Book 4) by words_are_weapons
Blink: Interdiction (Book 4)
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Ravine is a planet divided. After years of skirmishing between secessionist and loyalist forces, the spectre of a bloody planet-wide civil war is now all too real. As tensions between the factions boil over into full blown conflict, Darien, Amber and the operatives of Hammerhead Squad are drafted in to help colonial forces restore order. Called back from suspension, Darien is forced to confront a past he tried to leave behind, while Amber finds her principles being put to the ultimate test. The operatives are hurled into a confrontation unlike any they've ever experienced, one that ensures their lives, and the entirety of human civilisation will never be the same again.
Iron Heart (The Gauntlet #2) by words_are_weapons
Iron Heart (The Gauntlet #2)
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It's a new year and Gauntlet finalist Codi James is back for round two. With her new position at the top ranked Battlecast Academy and with last year's victor no longer competing, it seems like the fates have aligned to give Codi a clear run at winning the tournament once and for all. Armed with state of the art equipment, a rigorous training schedule and a scholarship fund to let her focus on nothing but the Gauntlet all year round, she has one goal: first place. But this year the game has changed. She's not the plucky underdog anymore. Codi has the weight of expectations on her shoulders, and there are those who view her leap to fame through jealous eyes. This year her battles won't be confined to the arena, and now she has everything to lose. [Sequel to The Gauntlet]
The Gauntlet (The Gauntlet #1) by words_are_weapons
The Gauntlet (The Gauntlet #1)
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Codi James is a chronic underachiever. A straight C student, her life is going nowhere. Causing havoc at yet another school it looks like she's heading for another expulsion, until one teacher decides to call in a favour from an old friend. Codi is sent to the one place where her aggression might do her some good. Joining the underdeveloped Brax-Delta training academy, Codi is set on the long, bruising path to compete as a champion in the Gauntlet Tournament. Thrown together with a team of other misfits and under the tutorage of a frustrated veteran, she has one chance left to prove that she's more than just a struggling orphan. Never underestimate a desperate person. WINNER OF 2014 WATTPAD PRIZE FOR BEST EPIC
Furnace (Hunter-Killer #1) by words_are_weapons
Furnace (Hunter-Killer #1)
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Life on Rychter would be hard enough for most people - a hothouse of scorching deserts, violent dust storms and volcanic eruptions, it is a place that breeds survivors. But the biggest danger for the humans unfortunate enough to live there are the planet's original owners. For decades Rychter's colonists have lived in state of perpetual war. For Ryke Vannigan, a teenager with a score to settle, that war is his chance at payback. When he and his classmates are conscripted into Rychter's military forces, he joins the elite ranks of the Hunter-Killer Corps. Piloting a fifteen ton war machine and harbouring a thirst for revenge, Ryke is about to write his own bloody chapter in Rychter's history, and change the war forever. IMAGINARIA AWARDS WINNER: SCI FI CATEGORY IMAGINARIA MINI-CATEGORY WINNER: BEST BATTLE || BOOK 1 in the HUNTER-KILLER SERIES
Warsong (Hunter-Killer #2) by words_are_weapons
Warsong (Hunter-Killer #2)
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The balance of power on the planet Rychter has changed. The battle for Brekka has left the once mighty fortress city crippled. The gateway to the south and the first line of defence for Rychter's human colonists, it is vulnerable for the first time in living memory. With the brutish Scraegan warbands in the badlands biding their time and gathering strength, it seems more bloodshed is inevitable. Ryke Vannigan, commander of an elite squadron of Hunter-Killer battle mechs, lived through that siege, but when a coalition of political and military leaders from the North descend on the reeling populace of Brekka to take control of the war he finds himself pushed to the margins. In the eyes of the North, Brekka's leaders have failed in their duty, and if the Scraegans can no longer be contained, they must be destroyed. He and his companions are soon drafted to join an army with a single purpose: complete extermination. The battle for Brekka might be over, but the war for Rychter is about to begin. || BOOK 2 in the HUNTER-KILLER SERIES