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(Lost Starship 3) The Lost Destroyer | Vaughn Heppner | [
"scifi",
"space opera"
] | Chapter 27 | Maddox stood in the corridor before the control room hatch. He gripped his long-barreled gun. On the other side of the door, Villars waited with a slarn rifle.
From time to time, the corridor shuddered. Once, motion caused Maddox to stumble forward. Then, a shock caused the captain to go to one knee. After regaining h... |
Rising World | Kris Schnee | [
"fantasy",
"LitRPG",
"anthro",
"anthro protagonist",
"crafting"
] | Chapter 70 | In a restaurant lit by candles, Vonn and Tazo and Kotta sat around a table with a chalkboard, paper, and as many wooden dice as a puzzled Tazo had been able to make. Birbella the feathery pinball enthusiast had joined in and was perched on a stool, mostly just listening.
Vonn continued the story he'd been telling. "Wi... |
King of Elflands Daughter | Lord Dunsany | [
"fantasy"
] | A Chapter on Unicorn-Hunting | None in Erl was so busy but that he came that morning to see the magic that was newly come out of Elfland, and to compare the trolls with all that the neighbours said of them. And the folk of Erl gazed much at the trolls and the trolls at the folk of Erl, and there was great merriment; for, as often happens with minds ... |
(The A.I. 2) A.I. Gene | Vaughn Heppner | [
"scifi",
"AI"
] | Chapter 113 | The final beam reached the matter/antimatter core. It boiled against the armored plate that protected the engine area. Then it burst through. It raved through the vents, touching off an explosion. That explosion heated another armored part, allowing the grav beam to break the holding cell.
Matter and antimatter did no... |
Gridlinked | Neal Asher | [
""
] | Chapter 15 | Many lifeforms have hitched a ride with us and been part of our successful spread into the galaxy. From the beginning it was decided that quarantine strictures were an exercise rendered pointless by the huge advances being made in bioscience. If you have a creature's DNA or whatever other template it might use, what ma... |
(The Dragon Queen 1) A Dream of Fire | J. R. Rasmussen | [
"fantasy",
"dragons"
] | Chapter 16 | Despite the ache of relentless shivering, some of the tension in Griffin's neck and shoulders eased when he found another cave. He was relieved not because he hoped Fendrath might be in it—he knew it was time to give up on finding the dragon—but because he thought there was a genuine risk he would not make it back to t... |
Vicious | V. E. Schwab | [
"urban fantasy"
] | Chapter 42 | Mitch led Sydney back to her room, and closed the door behind her. She stood in the dark for several minutes, dazed by the echo of pain, and the photo in the newspaper, and Victor's pale eyes, dead before he came back to himself. She shivered. It had been a long two days. She'd spent the night before under an overpass,... |
Tyche's Crown | Richard Parry | [
"science fiction",
"space opera"
] | Chapter 66 | Hope had been right: two guards, stationed outside the Tyche's airlock. And a long walk towards it, but — praise be — no one else in this immediate vicinity. Which struck Kohl as weird, but it had been a weird kinda day. He made his way down the corridor towards them at what was a good running speed, now he didn't feel... |
Inkheart | Cornelia Funke | [
"fantasy"
] | Basta's Pride and Dustfinger's Cunning | 'Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring!" And they'll say: "Yes, th... |
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking (Fantasy, humor, young adult).txt | T. Kingfisher | [] | Chapter 51 | The attack came twenty minutes after sunrise.
Aunt Tabitha said it had been twenty minutes, anyway. She's got a pretty good internal clock, always knows when the muffins are ready to pull out of the oven. It didn't feel like twenty minutes. It felt more like twenty years.
The sky looked like a raw egg, runny with str... |
Rise of the Ranger | Philip C. Quaintrell | [
"fantasy"
] | The Pit | The time had come. After a thousand years of nurturing and guiding the Arakesh, the time had finally arrived when Alidyr could use them to serve Valanis. No more controlling from the shadows and manipulating others to do his bidding, but outright command of the most skilled warriors in all of Illian. They could never b... |
Just a Coincidence | P.F. Ford | [
"mystery"
] | Chapter 1 | It was cold, and it was dark, and she was beginning to wish she was somewhere else. Crouching behind the tail of a small airplane parked about 30 yards from where he was, she watched him busily removing the canvas cover and guy ropes from a similar aircraft. He was working by the dim light that spilled from two distant... |
His Shadow Upon Your Fate | WinterAnswer | [
"furry"
] | Chapter 33 | Eyes were always set upon the road next to them, observing what little traffic it received. Two or three people's worth of travelers went forward in the opposite direction. They all wore long clothing, robes. It was hard to see what race they were, but Kusno could guess that most of the tall figures were sergal, maybe ... |
Second Hand Curses | Drew Hayes | [
"adventure",
"comedy",
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 8 | "There." Frank pointed over Jack's shoulder, gesturing to a small twinkle of light reflecting from the ground. They trudged across the damp grass of early morning until they reached the object. Frank bent down and picked it up, cradling it between pale fingers as he examined the sphere. "Definitely one of mine. She wen... |
Conquistador | Buddy Levy | [
"history",
"nonfiction",
"war",
"Spain",
"16th century",
"Aztecs"
] | Montezuma's Ironic Fate | The news of the uprising in the capital spurred Cortés to action. At the conclusion of the battle with Narváez, he had sent out several colonizing and settlement expeditions, and now he recalled them, rerouting them for immediate rendezvous in Tlaxcala. Each of these expeditions numbered about two hundred men, and Cort... |
Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Harari | [
"nonfiction",
"science",
"history",
"philosophy"
] | The Modern Covenant | Modernity is a deal. All of us sign up to this deal on the day we are born, and it regulates our lives until the day we die. Very few of us can ever rescind or transcend this deal. It shapes our food, our jobs and our dreams, and it decides where we dwell, whom we love and how we pass away.
At first sight, modernity l... |
What Does This Button Do | Bruce Dickinson | [
"music",
"nonfiction",
"memoir",
"pop culture"
] | A Close Shave | It was decided that 2002 would be a year of rest and recuperation for the band. Maiden had been battered but had come through more intact than ever. As usual, my idea of rest and recuperation was to nibble away at a couple of new projects.
Back in the mists of time I have no clear recollection of who suggested the ide... |
Chrysanthemum, Rose, and the Samurai | Akahiege Namban | [
"Historical Fantasy",
"Erotica",
"Japan"
] | Chapter 32 | She waited in the sumptuously appointed room. It was decorated with screens painted with lifesize cherry trees in full bloom. The back wall held a painting of a hawk on a pine tree. There were soft padded seating cushions, and a small lacquered bureau held a vase with an arrangement of spring flowers.
She was still dr... |
(Scrolls of Fire 1) The Dragon Librarian | Marc Secchia | [
"fantasy",
"dragons"
] | Chapter 30 | Two months passed by quickly in Sazutharr's scrolliverse, as he fondly named his Library. For him it was indeed the centre of the Universe, and it was Auli's daily joy to absorb his enormous passion for the written word and lore. She made friends amongst the Apprentices, especially Emoric, the dancing Apprentice who ch... |
Champions of the Dragon | Michael James Ploof | [
"comedy",
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 25 | The champions followed the western road for many miserable hours. The forest gave way to rocky hills dotted with bearberries and patches of witch grass, along with twisted junipers and dragon's tongue, whose long red flowers were just beginning to bloom. The foothills led south to a small range, where distant peaks sto... |
Destiny's Cradle | Paul Crawford | [
"hard SF"
] | Chapter 96 | Over the years, as Dante's abilities increased, Agatha spent less and less time in the computer center. She gradually transferred responsibility for managing the ship's core AI to Dante, and charged him with monitoring its operational and life support systems.
She spent much of her own time immersed in the broad expan... |
Rusalka | CJ Cherryh | [
"Fantasy",
"Russia"
] | Chapter 8 | "Somebody's coming!" Sasha whispered. "Cover up!"
Pyetr moved for his corner and raked handfuls of straw over himself. Sasha flung the horse blankets over him and got up and walked away. Pyetr could hear the gentle breakage of straw, the soft opening and closing of the stall.
"What are you doing?" someone asked.
"Ha... |
(Worldbreaker Saga 3) The Broken Heavens | Kameron Hurley | [
"fantasy",
"LGBT",
"science fiction fantasy"
] | Chapter 10 | Lilia gripped her walking stick so tightly her hand hurt. This could not be, she thought. Not after all this time, after all the work she had done, after how far she had come, after all the delicate alliances they had maintained. Ahkio the coward, the pacifist, was dead, surely? Meyna herself had seen it, wept over it,... |
The Hidden Illusionist | Deck Davis | [
"dark fantasy",
"fantasy"
] | Ethan | "Yuren says it's going to scar," Bander said. "You should look on it as a lesson. Every time you see it, you'll remember that morning."
The spear wound on Ethan's cheek hurt like hell. After his accident in the training yard, Bander summoned him to the guildmaster's office. Ethan was sitting, blood smeared across his ... |
Overworld | Rohan M. Vider | [
"LitRPG"
] | 390 days until the Arkon Shield falls | It was a two-hour hike to the foothills north of the Outpost. The sisters believed the intervening region to be safe—relatively safe, anyway. It didn't stop the pair from jogging off to scout ahead though.
After the sisters disappeared over the horizon, Tara turned to the rest of us. "Alright, let's get moving. We hav... |
Penric's Mission | Lois McMaster Bujold | [
"Fantasy"
] | Chapter 25 | They ate breakfast soon after dawn in the inn's common room, as apart from its other patrons as they could arrange, and silently. Fare included porridge, unexceptional, dried figs and apricots, decent, a small ration of white cheese, horrifyingly familiar squares of dried fish which Nikys and Arisaydia consumed without... |
Down These Mean Streets | Jim Butcher | [
"omnibus",
"Spider-Man",
"superheroes",
"Marvel"
] | Chapter 85 | A quick check at Ravencroft Asylum confirmed that Dmitri Smerdyakov, a.k.a. the Chameleon, a.k.a. about a thousand other people at various times, was still incarcerated securely and in no condition to be impersonating anybody. With that avenue closed off, Spidey spent the next couple of days checking out the usual susp... |
(Lost Regiment 8) Men of War | William R. Forstchen | [
"scifi",
"military"
] | Chapter 2 | Colonel Andrew Lawrence Keane reached up and reverently touched the silken folds of the flag of the 35th Maine. Aged and bloodstained, the fabric was as fragile as the wings of a dying butterfly.
A hundred nameless fields of strife, he thought wistfully. My own blood on that standard, my brother's, all my comrades. Ho... |
Aurora | Kim Stanley Robinson | [
"hard SF",
"science fiction"
] | Chapter 146 | So as they flew back toward Sol, they tried to settle into their new lives, which were like their old lives, and yet somehow not. There were fewer of them, for one thing, and all in Ring B. And after the trauma of the schism, and choosing to head back to the solar system and its gigantic civilization, there were many i... |
Complete Collection | Tahereh Mafi | [
"science fiction"
] | Chapter 216 | Warner is in the shower when I get back up to the room.
I glance at the clock. This would be about the time he'd start heading down to the training rooms; I usually meet him there for our nightly recap.
Instead I fall face-first onto the bed.
I don't know what I'm going to do.
Adam is going to show up here tomorrow... |
Blood Heresy | Janrae Frank | [
"dark fantasy",
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 24 | Seri woke, wondering at first if it had all been a dream. She started the breakfast and sat the bottle of fire poppy on the counter. Surely nothing that happened last night had been real. It would all go away. She had had vivid dreams before that seemed real and had proven not to be. Her mother came down smiling, hugge... |
(Uncharted) The Fourth Labyrinth | Christopher Golden | [
"adventure",
"video games"
] | Chapter 10 | Drake woke on Saturday morning surprised not to have been rousted by the police during the night. He was even more amazed when he turned on the television and saw nothing about the violence outside the Queen's Hotel on the news. Sully had spent the night in Jada's room, presumably sleeping in a chair—though he might ha... |
We, Robots | Simon Ings (ed) | [
"short stories",
"robots",
"scifi"
] | Chapter 111 | While Friendly handled the incoming calls with her human voice box and meat-face, Engineer and Jukebox scoured the ship for the beacon and foraged for food ingredients. They opened all the crew lockers in the bunkroom and found some teabags and a little chocolate. The wilted, untended hydroponics garden yielded several... |
Medicine River | Thomas King | [
"slice of life"
] | Chapter 16 | I drove January Pretty Weasel out to the reserve for the funeral. Her arm was still in the sling, and Doc Calavano said the medication might make her drowsy. I didn't want to go, but January was kin, and it was her husband's funeral.
Jake had shot himself. January found him in bed with his shotgun. Harlen gave me all ... |
The Getaway | Jim Thompson | [
"mystery"
] | Chapter 8 | The barn was pleasantly cool—clean and sweetsmelling with the aroma of fresh straw and new hay. In one of the rear stalls a swaybacked horse nickered contentedly. From a partitioned-off kennel, also in the rear, came the happy yappings of a litter of puppies.
There were two box stalls at the front, small floored rooms... |
Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | [
"romance",
"19th century",
"Russia"
] | Chapter 50 | Stepan Arkadyevitch went upstairs with his pocket bulging with notes, which the merchant had paid him for three months in advance. The business of the forest was over, the money in his pocket; their shooting had been excellent, and Stepan Arkadyevitch was in the happiest frame of mind, and so he felt specially anxious ... |
Complete Collection | Tahereh Mafi | [
"science fiction"
] | Chapter 16 | The ceiling is fading in and out of focus.
My head is heavy, my vision is blurry, my heart is strained. There is a distinct flavor of panic lodged somewhere underneath my tongue and I'm fighting to remember where it came from. I try to sit up and can't understand why I was lying down.
Someone's hands are on my should... |
The Arcade and Other Strange Tales | Brett Weiss | [
"urban fantasy"
] | Chapter 25 | The following months, the grounds behind the Brown place are silent. Warming in the dark glow of fullness, the creatures hibernate.
As though fraught with loneliness and a sense of abandonment, much of the decaying vegetation in the yard dries up and is carried away by the winds, seemingly in hope of finding a fresher... |
Courtesan Boot Camp | D.L. Jackson | [
"Science Fiction",
"Erotica"
] | Chapter 18 | Shay completely missed the trip home. Only when Dayne lifted her from the beast did she realize they were back on the terrace, staring out over Elatia. She slid down his body to her feet, pressed tightly to his torso, clinging to his body. Inside she quivered, shook with excitement. "That was beautiful."
"Not as beaut... |
Tomb of Pendragon | John Cressman | [
"LitRPG",
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 42 | "Go look at your reflection in the pool," Ethan suggested to the dwarf, who was still looking over her restored arm in wonder and fascination.
Nodding numbly, the dwarf let the Grail fall to the ground and hurried over to the pool of sparkling water. Bending down, she peered into the pool. Ethan wasn't sure, but he th... |
(The Marshes of Mount Liang 3) The Gathering Company | Shi Nai'an | [
"China",
"historical fiction"
] | Three mountains join forces against Qingzhou; All the tigers agree to repair to the Marshes! | When Wu Song took Red Star to meet Monk Lu Zhishen and the Blue-Faced Beast and he asked them to rescue his brother and uncle, the Monk wanted to attack at once with the combined troops of the three mountain strongholds. But the Blue-Faced Beast said: "You can't take Qingzhou without a very big army. We know the reputa... |
DoucheMage | Damien Hanson | [
"comedy",
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 20 | Tandy and Christina popped their heads in on Nicole. Tandy was this impossibly tall dark-skinned beauty with, somehow, blue eyes and light brown hair. Christina was practically the opposite: pale to the extreme, compact and muscular, with dark eyes and platinum blonde hair. Both rotated in and out of VIP Services if th... |
The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio | [
"Italy",
"short stories",
"14th century"
] | TWO YOUNG MEN SEEK COUNSEL OF SOLOMON, ONE HOW HE MAY BE LOVED AND THE OTHER HOW HE MAY AMEND HIS FROWARD WIFE, AND IN ANSWER HE BIDDETH THE ONE LOVE AND THE OTHER GET HIM TO GOOSEBRIDGE | None other than the queen remaining to tell, so she would maintain Dioneo his privilege, she, after the ladies had laughed at the unlucky Biondello, began blithely to speak thus: "Lovesome ladies, if the ordinance of created things be considered with a whole mind, it will lightly enough be seen that the general multitu... |
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