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35 Stories

  • Our Stars • SovAme Oneshot by MallMasquerade
    MallMasquerade
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    Is it really dying if you can finally live for once? -; Soviet POV I wrote this because there's not enough SovAme on the internet. I wrote this at 9pm instead of homework. For @starriishyy who somehow sees their dynamic just as I do, and without whom this fic would not exist
  • The Rips: Divulgence by MysteriousAceXXI
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    The world succumbs under the might of The Scarlet Branch. Join our earthly heroes as the explore ways to combat the possession posed by this threat with fictional technology and magic!
  • Countryhumans Oneshots ☆ [REQUESTS OPEN] by catastrophicoconut
    catastrophicoconut
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    - COVER BY ME - A CH oneshot collection of mostly angst, history, art, politics and fluff. TW in Table of Contents. Requests open! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Table of Contents Ch. 1 - Freedom Ain't Free [🇺🇸&🇨🇦] ✔️ Ch. 2 - Somebody to Lean On [🇷🇺&🇨🇳] ✔️ Ch. 3 - Lost in the Familiar [🇺🇸&🇻🇳,💲🇻🇳] ✔️ Ch. 4 - Somebody to Lean on [👑 🇭🇺 / 👩🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏼 🇦🇹] ✔️ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cover art is by me! Please do not steal/repost without my permission.
  • Space Race by ChrisJJD
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    A space jockey rides a space horse in a space race. its as simple as that. 1st thing I've actually written. apologies for errors of any kind. don't know target audience so just picked what I am. short story doesn't seem like its own genre so picked sc-fi
  • 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨 (Rusame) by Pastelmeeko
    Pastelmeeko
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    Russia/Soviet Union and America waged a competition onto eachother to achieve superior superflight capabilities. The two superpowers find themselves in a conference call, America suggesting him and Russia should take a little space trip together. Nothing can go wrong! It's just a wholesome- maybe some arrogant banter here and there- spaceship trip! (My first published fanfiction!! I'm sort of new to writing stuff like this so expect grammar mistakes!! ^_^; constructive criticism is appreciated!!)
  • Ukraine & the USA by AndyLazko
    AndyLazko
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    Short stories on Ukraine, its most important history events and Ukrainians who influenced world history. Must-read to those Americans who want to see some crucial events in the national history from a different perspectives.
  • The Competition by CharlieFenwick
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    When a piece of Federation technology is stolen, the crew of the Enterprise is left with only two choices - violate the Prime Directive or win it back. This is an action/adventure buddy fic featuring the crew of the Enterprise. Under the command of Geordi La Forge, a small team must repair a decommissioned starship and survive a dangerous race across the Alpha Quadrant. Geordi races across the galaxy with Data, Tasha, Worf, Miles, and Wesley. Meanwhile, Captain Picard, Commander Riker, Deanna, Doctor Crusher, and Keiko O'Brien uncover a plot to sabatoge the race on the ground. Set in the same universe as "The Complication" but can be read as a standalone. Mostly Geordi/Data shenanigans and Tasha/Worf friendship.
  • 𝐒𝐄𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄  by speedingstars
    speedingstars
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    ❝ 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐌𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐄 . ❞
  • Stand By For Action!: Thunderbirds in the Space Race and Cold War Era by CaptainThunderWho
    CaptainThunderWho
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    Gerry Anderson's SUPERMARIONATION television series Thunderbirds was made between 1964 and 1966 and was an instant smash hit when the series first transmitted in Autumn 1965. This British cult classic was rooted in themes of technology to provide an action-packed and thrilling series. The fears and predictions based on science saw the series preoccupied with the developments of the Space Race and the Cold War. This special project dedicated to my studies was embedded to explore the impact Thunderbirds had on society and culture to 1960s Britain. This is an insightful investigation into the themes of science and technology of Thunderbirds, influenced by contemporary British concerns such as themes to class and gender. Having worked on this project for many months, I aim to provide a fresh and scrutinous outlook on this legendary television series that captivated audiences ever since the 1960s. Under no circumanstances is this project to be copied in any way without consent of the author or supervisor from the school of University this was produced for. A CaptainThunderWho Century 22 Production.
  • Reach for the Stars- Katya's story. by c0smations__
    c0smations__
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    1957, Moscow. Twelve-year-old Katya Volkov spends more time staring at the stars than sleeping. While other children dream about ordinary futures, Katya dreams about rockets, orbit calculations, and the impossible idea of reaching space itself. Ever since the launch of Sputnik 1 changed the world overnight, Katya has become obsessed with the sky above her. She fills notebooks with physics equations, sneaks onto rooftops to stargaze in the freezing cold, and stays awake long past midnight trying to calculate the satellite's path across Earth. But in a country racing toward the future, curiosity can be dangerous. Caught between strict teachers, worried parents, and a world changing faster than anyone can understand, Katya refuses to let go of her dream-even when everyone tells her the stars are too far away. Because somewhere beyond the clouds, history is waiting. And Katya Volkov plans to reach it. the sky isn't the limit. it's the beginning.
  • Project Starfall: Angels from Below [mikayuu fic] by kyu_usagi
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    After the apocalypse peace was never a choice. The year is 2012. A virus has killed 90% of the human population. Amidst the destruction, vampires have risen from their hiding to challenge the remaining of humanity in an all out war: a race to space. They would give it all to achieve true "heaven," or go to hell trying.
  • Orbital by Arecynthia
    Arecynthia
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    Alex never thought that this dream of his could come true. He never thought that his dream would come true in the way it did. BUT IT DID!!! Alternate Space History Book. Don't attack me with real-life facts. This is my version in an Alternate Universe (AU). (1st in Alex's Space Odyssey series) Cover by @Deuphoria
  • Lunar dawn  by red1one_s
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    The story is set in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union successfully lands on the moon before the United States. The date is 1969, and the Cold War tensions are even higher due to this technological and ideological victory.
  • Child of the Snow Lab by ilovemurderstories
    ilovemurderstories
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    When NASA finds a fellow Space Agency human out in the snow, she decides to take care of it, but as the young agency grows, he begins asking questions. Will NASA tell him the truth about his past, or will she hide it from him and everyone forever? But what if there's more to little Roscosmos's story than just a dead father? What if he finds the Snow Lab?
  • Cosmonaut X by angusofstockholm
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    Vitali grew up in the Soviet Union during WW II. When a Soviet plane is shot down over his village, he learns about the monstrosity of war. After his father is killed in the closing days of the conflict, he vows that he will never let injustice prevail. As soon as he can, he joins the Air Force in a quest to settle an old score. Fit, brilliant and driven, he is selected for the Cosmonaut corps, but soon realizes that the most brilliant men will not make it to space. The party is looking for soldiers to fight to fight on the front lines of the Cold War, when all Vitali wants is to bring mankind together through his historic flight into space.
  • 16 Psyche - The New Space Race - story ideas, etc. by Wittig
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    ^see above^ the potential (impending/upcoming) competition/conflict for the metal world
  • The Mars expedition  by SlovenianLeek
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    1976 July 17 After humans have managed to put man on the moon technology has greatly evolved to make a spaceship compatible on to reaching Mars.
  • America's One Small Lie by JamiePorter88
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    THEY WANTED TO WIN THE SPACE RACE. THEY BUILT THE GREATEST LIE IN HUMAN HISTORY. JULY 1969. The world holds its breath as Nate Armstrong takes his historic first step. In living rooms across America, families cheer, patriots weep, and the United States triumphs over the Soviet Union in a decisive victory for the free world. But every word is a lie. Leo Croft, a brilliant but disillusioned special effects wizard, is recruited by a shadowy government official for a "patriotic project" of unimaginable scale. He is taken to a clandestine soundstage in the Nevada desert, where he is given an impossible task: if America cannot reach the moon, he must fake it. Driven by artistic pride and Cold War fear, Leo uses all his genius to build the ultimate illusion. But as the line between reality and deception blurs, Leo discovers the terrifying truth: the conspiracy he serves is more ruthless than he ever imagined. Those who work on the project are not patriots-they are prisoners. And those who ask too many questions have a habit of meeting with fatal "accidents." Now, hunted by the very machine he helped create and with a tenacious journalist-his own estranged wife-closing in on the truth, Leo must make an impossible choice. Expose the lie and risk shattering the nation's faith, triggering global chaos... or become the permanent guardian of a secret that would forever distort history. *A stunning, genre-bending thriller that reimagines the 20th century's greatest achievement, * America's One Small Lie is a gripping tale of artistic integrity, moral compromise, and the devastating cost of a lie that united the world.
  • USA vs USSR In Space:  an alternate history by Wittig
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    USA vs USSR alternate history