Megacity قصص

Magic disappeared. Magic returned. And then, the world ended. This is our world, but not our world. It is a world of islands, floating in the sky. Once there was magic. Then for a time, there was none. And then there was magic again. Once, long ago, magic disappeared from the world so completely that the people who lived then came to believe magic had never been. They were wrong, and magic returned, and those people pridefully fought the very gods in a terrible war, a destructive war, which only ended when the surface of the world had been cracked asunder and cast up into the sky. Now the world is broken into pieces, into separate islands, floating slowly in the sky. Now the people of this age live as best they can, scavenging and fighting and loving, doing all the things people have always done, but now doing those things in the sky. On one island, Sema, a farm girl, watches as her family are killed by pirates. On another, in a city, a thousand miles to south, Cassa is about to marry a man she does not love. Sema must survive, and in her own way Cassa must survive too. Slowly they are drawn together, and their meeting may save the world. * * * * * So because it turns out if I do normal romance everyone hates me, I’m going to try a couple of different things... So this is fantasy, just because, so... um, here! I’m not sure how it’ll go because I haven’t tried before, but if you’d like to look, then please do! Oh, the odd chapter numbering is because I'm kind of thinking longer chapters, and swapping between the two characters, so 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 are the parts of chapter one and about Sema, and then 2.1 is the start of the actual chapter 2. If that makes sense :) And also, thank you for looking!

Not even two days since Paul Trisran reached adulthood, and the elf is already striving for greatness... though his sister has a different view on the matter.

❝how do you kill a monster without becoming one?❞ In the last city ruled by man, fish soar in the skies above and monsters lurk in the alleys below. Ten years ago, Jase lost both his legs and his mother to one such monster. However, tragedy couldn't bind Jase's soul forever and he once again found himself standing on legs of metal and magic with the white-hot flame of vengeance raging in the very depths of his heart and mind. With his dark desires leading him, Jase will kill the monster who stole these things from him, even if he has to rip her heart out with his bare hands. CONTENT WARNINGS (18+) Profanity, graphic violence and gore, implications of abuse, self-destructive actions, self-harm, suicidal ideation and attempt, minor character death, and morally-questionable people doing morally-questionable things. [[WORD COUNT: 110,000]]

1 part story. About megacities. Chosen megacity - Seoul.

Axis Spire is a city of shining rings and hidden fractures, and the officers of SpireGuard stand between the two. Detective Arrueus Faraka and his squad navigate daily crime, political tension, and the strange undercurrents rising from the Underworks - unaware that something far greater is moving in the dark. As pressure builds across the station, the team must hold the line... and each other.

A science fiction epic following the stories of several individuals separated by great distances as they battle to restore balance to a world spiralling out of control due to greed and corruption. A group of brave men and women trying to escape the prison city of Penjara during a violent revolution. A security guard in the mysterious underwater megalopolis of Kota Air attempting to root out a group of terrorists attacking innocent civilians. A scientific expedition into an ancient capital ship found at the bottom of the ocean reveals secrets that a powerful being looks upon their world with distaste. The struggle of a man who must fight to survive when The Government release a fanatical assassin to claim the bounty placed on his head. The world hangs in the balance as a great enemy nears...

In a dystopian future ruled by "They", a young girl writes her story of freedom.

In the neon-soaked sprawl of Aurelion Veil, the city remembers everything - every secret, every betrayal, every lost soul. Ryu Kaien, a shadowed strategist known as the Ghost Broker, navigates the underworld where information is currency and loyalty is fleeting. But when a mysterious signal from the past surfaces, it leads him to Li Serin, a luminous figure whose humanity blurs with digital power, and whose fragmented memories may hold the key to the city itself. In a metropolis where the skyline is both cage and mirror, two souls must navigate treacherous syndicates, haunted data streams, and a city that watches their every move. Every choice could ignite war. Every secret could unravel reality. Will they rise above the neon towers - or be consumed by the city that never forgets?

Hundreds of years ago, Earth was turned into a desolate wasteland. The wealthy were able to escape and rebuild on Mars, but everyone else was forced to stay on Earth. With time, the distance between the worlds eroded the bond between the two havens of humanity. Mars began to envy Earth; they wanted that blue marble back, and all to themselves. Now, circumstance has pitted the inhabitants of the two worlds against each other. Two worlds, one species, and a trio's epic quest to repair the bonds of humanity before it's too late.

When a telekinetic psychic awakens his power with a brutal murder, Security Captain Killian must partner with a powerful but enchanting empath, Lucina, to track him down and collar him through the Moloch Family city-tower. A veteran of the savage Wildlands, Killian must use his skills to hunt his prey through the darkened Tower, and hope he can withstand the bewitching power of the empath along the way. (Some blood described)

A teenager gets falsely accused of murder in a future megacity where your personal data is the primary evidence used to convict in lieu of hard evidence. She joins up with an employee of the large corporation that owns most of the city to try and clear her name before she's arrested by the city guard, sending them both on a journey of self discovery that leads to dark truths and deeper mysteries about not just themselves but the city they call home. I've been working on this book for the past couple of years and have recently finished the latest draft. This is the first and second chapter of the book.

In a dystopian future, an unknown calamity has resulted in the migration of humans into massive cities, where the rich and politically powerful live in luxury while the rest of the citizens deal with shortages of just about everything except bone-crushing poverty. Those not "fortunate" enough to live in the mega-city live in the barren, often poisoned wasteland. Some of the grubbers (those who live outside the city and are forced to grub through the city's garbage to survive) are fortunate enough to have food that they can trade to the city in return for technology and other goods. "Edge City" is a take on the Judge Dredd Mega City concept. The city is the last habitable city on the edge of a radioactive wasteland. This story describes an exchange of goods between the "haves" and the "have nots". Of course, sometimes it is not always easy to tell who has and who doesn't. This story was submitted to a Writer's Digest competition (didn't win).

When seventeen year-old Runner was sentenced to death for stealing a loaf of bread in MegaCity One, his dreams were literally at an end. But then he opts to sign up for the Remnants of Men, a government sanctioned search for a rumoured fresh water lake beyond a radiated wasteland. At first, it seemed like a second chance to a new life, the transformation from zero to hero. But after an encounter with a rabid gang of men suffering an acute insanity, he soon comes to understand that he is one of many discarded into the wasteland to study the cannibalistic effects of a new drug called the Sixth Sense. Olivia Patterson has had one too many doses of the Sixth Sense and owes a massive debt to a shadowy rebel and loan shark called Death-Throe. Being the daughter of the City's dictator, she knows too well that the gallows awaits any who associates with the rebel. In an attempt to free herself, she acquires an asset in the form of Runner and finds herself always at the edge, for if he survives it means freedom for both, but if he dies...

This is a story about Mela and the mystery behind her eyes. As well as why she is wanted dead by any means.

What is the one question that unlocks the power of a god? Gavel Honor built the God Equation - a simulation capable of answering anything. He just never expected to end up trapped inside it. Now Gavel and Eden Fayes are stranded in a world where angeloid species wage war using the simulation's own systems as weapons. The equation that was supposed to answer life's greatest questions may be the very thing that unravels existence itself. And somewhere in the code, something is asking it the wrong question. A cosmic sci-fi adventure about gods, simulations, and the price of knowing too much.

Jaded British assassin Craig Graham is pulled from long-term leave to track down missing intelligence officer Shannon Lewis in the dreaded Boonies of La Ciudad - the megacity built upon the ruins of Tokyo following the Second American Civil War. What begins as a rescue spirals into a brutal entanglement with the Dead Things, a refugee gang led by the magnetic yet dangerous Malachi Katz-whose uprising hides ambitions far darker than liberation. Set in a future, post-American world, Kill 9 is set in La Ciudad - a megacity built upon the ruins of Tokyo, now the center of the world. ESPIONAGE - ACTION - DRAMA: Inspired by Metal Gear, Ghost Recon, Ghost in the Shell, and Black Lagoon, Kill 9 brings you to a new world filled with spies, bounty hungers, and intrigue between governments and corporations. Explore the world through our first installment: Rebel Faction. Written by Luckystrikeman, Art & Design by Cashews - STUDIO BREKNEK

A super hacker wakes up one day to find himself trapped in a robotic body. There's a hostile AI stuck inside with him. He doesn't know how it happened and the world around him - the continental city sprawl of Babylon - has outlawed rogue synthetics. Worse of all, his memories are being deleted at an alarming rate. Now he must race against time to find out what really happened to him, the answers to which will have far greater implications than he could have ever imagined.

AFTER THE WATER REMEMBERS Sa lugar nila, hindi na special ang baha. Normal na yung mga kalsadang nagiging tubig. Normal na yung mga tulay na ginagawa na lang daanan ng bangka. Normal na rin yung araw-araw may nawawala, may nasisira, may hindi na bumabalik sa dati. Sanay na ang lahat. Kaya wala nang nagtatanong kung may mali pa ba. Hanggang kay Justin De Dios. Hindi siya bida. Hindi rin siya yung tipo na mapapansin agad. Isa lang siya sa mga taong gumagawa ng trabaho-inaayos yung mga tulay at daan na alam naman niyang masisira ulit kinabukasan. Routine lang dapat. Pero may mga araw na hindi niya maipaliwanag. Yung mga sandaling dapat bumagsak na ang lahat... pero hindi natutuloy. Parang may humahawak sa dulo ng disaster bago pa man matapos. At habang lumalala ang mga bagyo, unti-unting lumilinaw ang isang bagay- hindi lang basta panahon ang gumagalaw sa mundo nila. May pattern. May dahilan. At kahit ayaw niya, lagi siyang nasa gitna nun. Hindi niya lang alam kung bakit.