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Parts 14
Time 1h 32m

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By the 23rd century, humanity has colonized its first planet: Mars. Far removed from Earth's military power, resources, and affluence, daily life on the red planet is chaotic and dangerous. 

Mig is an aging mercenary who relies on dwindling civilian contracts to earn his living. Olivia is a brilliant programmer who struggles with a medical condition she's too poor to treat. They live and work together in the small settlement of New Shanidar, but a chance encounter starts a sequence of events that threatens to destroy their lives, their loyalty to each other, and all hope for a better future on Earth.    

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The Fall of the galaxy by nessymessy23

You may have been told the galaxy is a vast dark empty place, they lied. Millions of years before humans the galaxies were filled with ships and planet alliances filled with war and love. People did anything they could to survive, the world was filled with demons and horrible Animals. If you can even call them that, monsters. In the early days when people were stuck on planets they were ravaged and killed, but eventually, a new dawn came, The galaxies formed an alliance and the Knights were born traveling from planet to Planet to destroy these monsters. The knights are gods among men and women. People believe nothing can stop these god killers but eventually, they start to crack. T

Mars Needs Women by wdhenning

Being a 'difficult woman', Oklahoma farm-gal Mavis wasn't having much luck with the local dating pool. Her Pa signed her up to emigrate to newly terraformed Mars, because 'Mars needs women'. Maybe there she could find a good man to marry. But Mavis had no intention of getting hitched, despite what the legal contract said. Walt, the son of successful Mars merchants, had no intention of going through with a forced arranged marriage. Finding a kindred spirit in Mavis, they chose their own path. A sci-fi sorta-romance story written for the 2024 Open Novella Contest based on prompt #88: "Your father is forcing you to marry someone you never met. The night before your wedding, you tie your sheets together and make your escape through the window. Half way down you make eye contact with someone doing the exact same thing a few windows over." **** Open Novella Contest Short List and Honorable Mention **** **** Open Novella Contest Round Two Ambassador Pick ****

If Jove Stray by jaeshanks

{✨Book 5✨} Earth. Light years away, and yet now that some on the base were born there, it seems so...close. As communication with the mother planet seems more and more likely, Dylan and Alcott have to wonder if Earth really has anything to offer to their world. Is Earth and its customs obsolete or will those traditions save the their society from crumbling apart? More importantly, does Dashiell Turner have his new world's interests at heart? Updates Monday and Thursday

Martian Settlement: The Fight For Mars by davidswsim

It is 2062, and the colonisation of Mars is at its height. Humanity's dreams have come true, with a nearly self-sufficient settlement on Mars and major plans being put forward for large-scale terraforming. However, colonisation is never easy. With ever increasing threats from the mining corporations to influence the Martian Environmental Treaty, the settlement is left to fend for the planet - or die. Will the settlement be able to save the frontier of human civilisation, or will it fall prey to evil corporations and into the jaws of abuse and destruction?

Invading a Beast World by Mattamanpow

All contact was lost when the last human army was encircled and destroyed in the arctic, no human contacts have ever been reported since the last army. Earth was officially lost as the last army protected the evacuation into space, many years have passed since then, and the likeliness of any human resistants on Earth have long since faded. Humanity struggled to adapt and survive on the distant planet of Mars in our solar system, the cold red deserts have challegened humanity beyond its capacity to live and yet humanity prevailed by all means. The Mythical War planet was finally tamed as many colonies have grown to full fledged cities capable of providing humanity on Mars the means to survive. The divided colonies have established contact to one another as the connection finally bonded them togather into a self-sustaining community before uniting into an independent state of its own a centralised state formed further bringing the people togather, with the long age of survival coming to an end, humanity finds renewed spirit to retake their home planet earth, their true home "I DONT OWN ANY OF THE ART, ALL PICTURES OR IMAGES ARE PURELY FROM THE RESPECTIVE OWNERS" Warning mature language and possible sexuall scenes

Harem - English version [onc2024] by Keira-007

✨ Ambassadors' Pick + 3th place in Dutch ONC 2024 ✨ Planet: Serail, of the six hundred and thirteenth solar system. Year: 3224, according to the intergalactic accord. Sim1 fought desperately, but the opponents were far too strong and now she belongs to the harem of Zandr, the greatest lord living on Serail. She is his hundredth companion, which makes her rank the lowest and the others clearly know it. Sim1 must do everything she can to survive, because it's an unique happening if no one dies. Based on prompt 26: Being the other woman in a marriage hurts. But being the 100th in a harem of powerful beings is deadly. Open Novella Contest 2024 Contains violence Note: English is not my native language. If you find any inconsistencies or plain mistakes, please let me know so I can fix it. ♥

Plutonian by SoniaJohn

[THIS STORY IS FREE WITH EXCLUSIVE BONUS CONTENT] A fake relationship, a diabolical plan and a threat to the human race. The only thing that ties them together is an eighteen year old girl's choice, that could change the course of everything. *** Every year five hundred children are abducted from planet Earth and taken to Pluto to serve as slaves to aliens who are far superior to the human species. When a slave turns eighteen they are allowed to choose their fate for the rest of their lives. They are only given three choices; remain a slave, become a fighter or serve as a Plutonian's lover. For the past eleven years, Aria has spent every second waiting for an opportunity to escape and when she's offered a dangerous but rewarding arrangement by a prominent Plutonian, she is quick to agree. But when the lines between love and hatred blur, will Aria ever be able to escape or will her risky circumstances kill her first? Editor's Picks 2021 *Winner of the Spotlight Awards* *Highest rank so far: #4 in Aliens #1 in dystopian #3 in romance (10/2/21) Cover by @Greenteadragon

Finding Darkness by Azmavath

The big city can be a dangerous place for anyone, but for someone new to its dangers, it can be deadly. Recently escaped from the people that created her, Six is on the run, out in the world for the first time in her short life. Stalked by a team of the best trackers on the planet, she knows her odds of escape are slim at best. Yet these men are not her most pressing concern. Not when the planet that she was born into is no longer controlled by humans. When every person on the planet lives under the shadow of a race none can defeat. Where your only option is bow the knee, or die.

WARLORDS OF ANDROMEDA by deancmoore

Three hundred years after Earth’s sentient internet takes the planet into Singularity—and out of spacetime—to avoid a sun going supernova ahead of schedule, the fleeing Martian colonists have found another kind of liberation. Using space warping ships they spread their seed across Andromeda. But if Frakas, the genius bioengineer who created a new Cambrian explosion of humanoid life, and the first of the hundred year men, clones designed to uplift souls, were enough to see them through the first leg of their journey, they are not around to be leaned on anymore. So begins the second trilogy of The Hundred Year Men saga, WARLORDS OF ANDROMEDA, and the reign of Dargan, the second clone. But will the ingenious tactics of Dargan’s warlords be enough to unseat the powers threatening the empire from within as well as from without? Or will these highly evolved humanoid species merely use their genetic and cybernetic enhancements to make better war on a scale never before imagined, using imaginative methods only such technological breakthroughs—not to mention sprawling space armadas—could accommodate? --------------------------- note: the three separate trilogies comprising the Hundred Year Men saga do not have to be read in order.

What defines a human? by Emmian_

It's the year 2038 and the world is quite different from ours. Imagine living in a future with robots, androids walking beside you. Building houses, greeting you at hospitals, taking care of your children, buying your groceries, helping you in your day to day life... you name it, they do it. They act like us, talk like us and look like us. The only difference is, they don't have feelings... or do they? Amanda is a young activist and journalist. Her personal blog "Are we human?" Is provocative and rebellious, questioning the real purpose of the androids. After a final warning from her boss she's fired from the big news company in New York. Angry and full of determination to work even harder on her blog she moves home to her father Carl Manfred and his caretaker Android, in the city of Detroit. (A Detroit Become human fanfic)

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If Jove Stray cover

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Invading a Beast World cover

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The Fall of the galaxy

You may have been told the galaxy is a vast dark empty place, they lied. Millions of years before humans the galaxies were filled with ships and planet alliances filled with war and love. People did anything they could to survive, the world was filled with demons and horrible Animals. If you can even call them that, monsters. In the early days when people were stuck on planets they were ravaged and killed, but eventually, a new dawn came, The galaxies formed an alliance and the Knights were born traveling from planet to Planet to destroy these monsters. The knights are gods among men and women. People believe nothing can stop these god killers but eventually, they start to crack. T