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The Solavar and the Mardish; two ancient and corrupt elvish empires tottering towards a final, apocalyptic end war known in prophecy as the T'sar; the War of the Leaf. That same prophecy declared that only they who hold the Sword of Blood will emerge victorious and avoid total annihilation. And so they search for the ultimate weapon so the final war can start. The catch? The ultimate weapon is member of the fledgling human race! Can the human pirate Tev Bloodsword discover his destiny and save his own people before the world is consume by the War of the Leaf?*cover art by Ferretlp, part of the D A N G E R D A Y S I N C. cover art team…

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A collection of science fiction short stories written for Smackdowns or inclusion in Tevun-Krus, Oorah's monthly sci-fi e-zine. I just wanted to let you guys have access to them, since most of these stories end up in some contest anthology somewhere, getting dusty. Hope you enjoy them. If you see text high-lighted, that was done deliberately for the sake of a contest.…

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*TEASER* A glimpse into a divided galaxy where the monstrous K'ethik prepare to conquer and the enigmatic Collector stirs in its withered universe to once again threaten all existence. Can Two, gifted with Max Niekro's memories, hope to join with the Risen and the Vanguard to defeat both enemies in a two-front war? *TEASER*…

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Written as a companion novel to Risen and Risen: Darklight, Echoes of War tells us what the echoes, psychic reverberations of violent deaths that appear as ghosts and led by the incomparable Hannibal Barca of ancient Carthage, are doing between the major engagements of the two books. Which is a combination of learning both how to fight in a modern war while NOT killing each other as old conflicts arise with the return of memory.See how Hannibal begins to craft his determined volunteer ghosts into the formidable fighting force that plays a key role in not only the various raids the Risen engage in, but the assault on the siphon and the alpha tournament as well. He may only be an echo of his former self, but the former general is still one hell of a commander of soldiers! Join him and the echoes as they prepare to go to war against the Velkin.…

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A collection of science fiction, fantasy and fusion short stories that I've written for various projects that haven't before been featured on my profile.…

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Mickey, a young Bonobo, contemplates his future when the driver of the transport moving he and his family of research apes to a Canadian wildlife preserve never returns. Now caged and starving, their fight for survival has just begun.Check out the full motion book here: http://madefirestudios.deviantart.com/art/Planet-of-the-Apes-Episode-5-Allegiance-649676194Join the Planet of the Apes Fan Art Challenge right here on DA!: www.deviantart.com/planetoftheapes…

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A series of sci-fi short stories for @LayethTheSmackDown's new Smackdown…

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Magic meets sci-fi as opposing forces battle for dominance in a war-torn galaxy.After the accidental discovery of magic centuries previous changed the way the universe runs, nothing is the same as the masters of magic, the High Sages, face their greatest challenge in the Technomages, a group of races that use technology to give the illusion of magic at work, and that will do anything to destroy their rivals, the Sages.Into the middle of this centuries long war stumbles Ben Talbot, an information smuggler who is hired by the Determined Union of Mundane Sentient Species to carry a secret to some of their most capable analysts in the hopes of preventing the Union from being crushed in between the two galactic superpowers. The question is, will Ben live long enough to deliver it?Follow Ben in this sci-fi/fantasy fusion story that's filled with action, tech, and crispy one-liners and hope that he can deliver the goods before he gets dropped into a deep hole forever!…

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Humanity; bright, shiny and filled with promise at the beginning of a new Age. Little did they know that evolution and the elements had conspired together to bend and twist Humanity's DNA and create a broad range of mutant offspring. And they will stay unaware, if Mordecai and the Lone Gunmen have anything to say about it, Humanity's mutant children hiding in the shadows of the Dark Edge. But the powerful mutant psionic now faces a new enemy, one that not only wants out of the shadows, but to destroy Humanity at the same time. Wielding all the powers of the psionic people, can Mordecai stop this new enemy before Humanity itself is destroyed?This is a work in progress, a rewrite of my novel Hardwire from the ground up. Hope you enjoy it.…

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Like a phoenix, they arose. From the ashes of a world burnt by massive nuclear holocaust and frozen by a millennia of nuclear winter. They are the Fisted Races and they struggle against the tattered remnant of Humanity for what little resources are left on a battered Earth. Ryon, Tigris, Kanid and Pantor; all equally powerful in skill and cunning. And in their hatred of the human race that nearly destroyed the world with the Great Burn.But now an even greater power in the south was rising that threatened Fisted and Humans alike. Could they somehow put the bloodshed and horror of their history behind them and stand together against it? Because if they didn't, not only would Humanity and the Fisted die, but so would every living thing on the planet!…

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An anthology of sci-fi short stories for @ForbiddenPlanet's Sci-Fi SmackDown 8, exploring a number of themes ranging from Alien Invasion, AI, Colonization and Sword and Planet.…

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How far would you go to save your world from extinction? What would you sacrifice? Your material wealth, your reputation, maybe even your life? What is your world worth to you?To save the Earth, Kanto Ibrahin has sacrificed it all. In a future where centuries of abuse has destroyed the planet's environment, Earth has been abandoned by humanity. With her atmosphere nearly unbreathable, and sunlight unable to penetrate the dust-filled air, nothing grows or lives on the surface as smog storms race across the dried out basins of her once deep lakes and seas.Formerly an up and coming terraformer, Kanto has been ostracized by those he called friends and colleagues after returning to their abandoned home world in a last ditch attempt to save her. He gave up everything to do so, betting on an untested technology to save Earth where thousands before have failed. And now, he's down to his last tank of oxygen and his last battery cell as he prepares to try and get his tech working for the last time, or die in the attempt.…

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How do you escape a prison that has no walls? That is Grohad's challenge, a brutal tyrant captured after a bloody war and imprisoned against his will. Accustomed to wielding unlimited power, now he must find a way to escape an inescapable jail to return to the life he once had. This short story was written as an entry into @ScienceFiction's Nanobytes short story competition.…

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From nanopunk and steampunk to space opera and post-apocalyptic, Science Fiction embraces many sub-genres that illustrate the human condition across time and space. This anthology is a collection of short stories that explore a number of those sub-genres in an effort to showcase just how amazing and broad, and ultimately entertaining, Science Fiction is. Originally created for @ForbiddenPlanet's peer writing contests, the sci-fi smackdown, I hope my readers find it as entertaining to peruse these shorts as I did in writing them.…

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A collection of short stories aimed at entertaining, astounding and illustrating the various types of fantasy genres as entries in Magical_Realm's Fantasy Smackdown, ver 2.0…

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Uncertain of his place in a galaxy filled with machines, join former organic soldier Kazimon Seven on his journey to understand himself in the wake of a mecha civil war.Sci-Fi Smackdown entry, Round One. Utilized pictures 1 - building landscape (oracle compound), 3 - robot knight (mecha commander), 4 - anime female bot (Ro) and 5 - dead metal angels (Ro's painting of love) as inspiration.…

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Sci-fi clashes with mystery as Harvard Professor Robert Langdon finds himself using his eidetic memory and knowledge of symbols to help find four missing children that have vanished after playing in a room dominated by an old wooden wardrobe. A wardrobe with strange, alien symbols carved into it. What force has taken them? Will Langdon find them before it's too late?Smack Down, Round 2 Entry Classic: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Trashic: The DaVinci CodeCover art: el_grimlock, Deviant Art…

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A sci-fi version of Joan of Arc, using the Fallout: New Vegas picture, and Futuregirl (with goggles). Faced with the destruction of her world by the alien Ni'vaan, can Dz'oan, a lowly lekun girl from the swamps, channel the ancient power within her with the help of the mysterious Guide, and defeat the Ni'vaan before they destroy the human colonists and her world?…