Science Fiction
Shrouded in Darkness
A group of teens from Canada are finding out they have a secret in their own school. They are brought together as they find out the hidden truth of their town’s history and how underneath their own school is the ancient figure that comes back from the grave and hunts them down for disturbing his grave. Will they find how this man rose? Can they truly trust the ones who kept this hidden? Why is the government so obsessed with this case?...Read More
X-thium: Unleashed
A crew has been chosen, the course set in stone for these eight lone crew members. Gia Brown must get this team of jacka**es into a team that can get a planet on the outer rim of the Milky Way Galaxy into the Terran Defense Division. Yet when they land, more like crash, they are met with hostility from Orions natives. Due to their arrival on Orion during a terrible storm they unearthed a deadly parasite that can enter host and-CONNECTION TERMINATED Just like Earth all those years ago, Orion has ...Read More
Arcanum Astra
Soran Xenthos completely sucks at being normal. Being found inside of a destroyed mech in the middle of a civil war in the year 3981 certainly made him unique. He has also been able to manipulate fire before he could even learn how to walk. On the very long list of the things that make him special, the one thing he truly hated was the strange nightmare that he can't seem to get rid of. A night of horror and death involving a woman named Alara and a man named Solomon who ironically looks just lik...Read More
Ion (Working Title)
Claye Peterson awakes aboard The Aldrin, a space station orbiting Earth's atmosphere, with no memory of his time aboard. In order to stay, he must relearn piloting and rekindle relationships with his crewmates. If he's lucky, he learn about his life prior to his accident....Read More
The Martian Connection
Federation space officer Aria Pantel's is haunted by actions of her past and forever being hassled by the arrogant Dr. Hansel Heinrich, a lover turned pain in the ass from the Academy. She wants to stick it to all her haters, yet her universe begins to spiral down a black hole when an unidentified ship of alarming origin blasts across her bow and risks destroying the fledgling humanoid settlement on the planet below that she's grown quite fond of. Will she open herself to resources that can hea...Read More
Gunmetal Grave
The Republic of Dierna is honor-bound to defend its protectorate: the city-state of Icia. When massive creatures invade Icia, Dierna sends in giant humanoid war machines known as "Angels" to put them down. While the streets of Icia are often a battlefield between monster and machine, Dierna uses the climactic clashes to serve as a display of force to their co-protector and rival nation: The Federacy of Nova Svetline. As tensions grow, a cold war begins and the nations race to create the perfec...Read More
A Garden Among The Stars
My wife and I have spent the last couple of decades world building with each other as a hobby. We love to create and craft people, societies and interesting ways to explore the worlds that we craft. We finally decided to write one of these worlds down and we are nearly ready to publish our first volume in an epic space opera. We are looking for honest critique. I am not sure how much we will share of it but we want to hear, what works and what doesn't. I have two other volumes in the works while...Read More
Farmer and Beetle
I'm on my third draft of a novel about giant sapient alien crabs. It's Enemy Mine meets Starship Troopers. Currently it's about 110K words....Read More
The Galactic Stage
The Galactic Stage is a complete 91,000 word space opera meant to appeal to fans of Star Trek. Summary: Rei Griffith survived the bloodiest period in human history and has taken on many roles in her prolonged life: a 22nd-century World War III colonel, a military officer aboard a sleeper colony ship, and a 24th-century starship captain. But to her, they're just roles. At her core, she sees herself as an actor, playing the part that is expected of her. The galaxy is her stage. Her current role i...Read More
The Martian Incident
John Cameron is a NASA engineer, working as a spacecraft accident investigator as humanity expands throughout the solar system in the late twenty-first century. When a mysterious UAV crashes in the American sector on Mars, he joins an interagency team to investigate the downed aircraft. But what starts as a simple mission turns into anything but when they make an astonishing discovery deep beneath the sands of the red planet... The Martian Incident is complete at 91,000 words. It is standalone ...Read More
Elegy for an Echo [working title]
A science fiction involving an illness from another realm caused by alien microorganisms masquerading as neurotransmitters, a "medical marvel" who only survived said illness because she made a deal with an entity living in a hospital bathroom mirror, an endling from this other realm making questionable decisions in an effort to resurrect his species, and a quiet revolution against a government who resets technological advancements and history every century. (I will probably not end up calling t...Read More
The EDEN Project
This story is an introspection following the mind of Elliot Serre. He falls into an enduring coma and lives inside his mind in a sort of lucid dream for five years. On the outside, he is examined by neurologists and psychologists who can turn his thoughts into binary and form images to see what he sees and read what he thinks. They observe him for fifteen years. He develops several severe mental illnesses and this short novel can get sensitive for people who struggle with depression, suicide, sc...Read More
If I Don’t Remember You
This is a Wordgirl fanfic about the process of Squeaky and Steven Boxleitner becoming Dr. Two-Brains, directly after the incident in the lab. I just need a beta reader for the future chapters, I think there’s only going to be one more chapter....Read More
Heroine Syndrome
Another day, another disaster. Bestial terrors plague the city-state of Icia—a demilitarized protectorate forbidden from defending itself. Colossal mechanical war machines known as "Angels" come from abroad to save the populace from the nightmarish "Beasts", yet in their wake lies untold collateral damage. When the citizens aren't fleeing monsters or fearing for their lives, they're faced with an unjust social system forced upon them by their neighboring protector nations. Yet, deep underground...Read More
Kay, the Last Gunslinger
Just finished Kay, the Last Gunslinger and have it out with Beta's. So far getting pretty positive feedback, but it's still early. If a gritty, cyberpunk western sounds like an interesting flavor, I'd love to have more eyes on it. Homestead wife, Kay claws her way from a shallow grave to pursue the bandits who killed her husband and kidnapped her son. As Kay follows their trail there's motorcycle chases, horseback shootouts, and cybernetically enhanced villains. Not much of a blurb, I know....Read More
The Europan Deception
When a Chinese administrator on Mars is killed meters away from him, Mark Clancy has had yet another mission blow up in his face. The pilot turned DIA field operative is currently on a string of bad luck and may never see the cockpit of his beloved F-77A Rapier space fighter again. When his one last chance to prove himself goes south and Clancy is blamed for the Russian ambassador to Poland's assassination, he must go on the run. Along with an experienced DIA agent, Adrianna Hall, and a beautif...Read More
The Spring of the Sentinels
Ava Mason returns to her hometown of Aurora Bay, Oregon, only to find that strange things are happening. People are disappearing, rumors of cults and monsters are spreading, and the world seems to be on the brink of destruction. But Ava is not alone in her fight against these dark forces. She soon meets a mysterious girl and her robot companion, who take her on an epic adventure. Together with a group of unlikely friends, Ava must navigate through a web of mysteries in order to save the world fr...Read More
Two Sides of a Coin
So this is a new story I had the idea about a while ago. I haven't come around to start writing much about it but it has been living in my mind rent-free. So I had this idea about a well-known hero who won the villain years ago and restored the peace. That Hero now went with the love of his life and had two children, twins. They raise them similarly, teaching them from a young age that it's their duty to take care of those weaker than them, training them to take the hero's place when he passes....Read More
Lag Delay
Los Angeles-based aerospace engineer Grace Parkowski uses virtual reality gear to remotely pilot a pair of humanoid robots, exploring the surface of Venus as part of NASA’s ILIAD expedition. On her first remote mission, she encounters an unexplained presence - a fire-breathing dragon - that abruptly pulls her out of the environment. That anomaly is solved as a simple software bug, but classified data in the error logs open up a puzzle that isn’t as easily explained. She and her boyfriend, U.S....Read More
Astral: Journey Into Sweven
Welcome to Astral, a theme park for both the living and the dead! Be sure to check out all of our many attractions; Sweven, the dreamer’s paradise. In Sweven, you can feel free to visit anyone’s dreams. Family, friends, celebrities, crushes; Whomever you’d like! Or maybe you’d like to try WaveConnect, a center for seances. Connect with loved ones whom have already crossed over. Or maybe you’re feeling the need to get your adrenaline pumping. Try any one of our amazing roller coasters or rides! W...Read More
Star Wars Republic Commandos (WIP)
After reading the Republic Commando Series by Karen Travis I was not happy and disliked the path the series had taken. So I wanted to write my own version of the clone commands....Read More
Death Due Us Part
A couple get married and go in there honeymoon where’s they fall deeper in love. While on their way back their car ride turns disaster as they crash into a tree and their partner is rushed to the hospital. They are informed that their partner is dead and they break down internally. They go home and one of their friends helps morn the loss of their partner. This blossom into a relationship that the ghost of the dead partner is jealous of. Even though death is what makes them part, the partner wil...Read More
Oneiromancer
Oneiromancer is a story about magic, forgotten history, and finding oneself. Forcibly dragged into a hidden world of power and danger, lonely burnout Clara Deeds has to hone her own inner strength lest someone else capture her power first. An ancient fortress, a mysterious Armageddon, and power obsessed madmen are all that stand between her and and a happy life. Now if only she could figure out what that life would be. ...Read More
In Fairytales
Hello to all and specifically to Royal Road staff! A slow-burn, fantasy story with sci-fi elements about a royal family and their journey through that other world. This work is split between 3 parts with the link to the next part at the end of each Doc for easier reading. Completed as of March, 2023, 147k words, looking to get some general reads and opinions of the work as a whole. Very much willing to swap manuscripts, especially longer ones!...Read More
That Nameless Island
Summary: after going camping on an island off the coast of their hometown, four boys are attacked by a mysterious individual. They escape, but shipwreck on a strange island. One of them has lost his memory, and the journey to get it back is treacherous, and will lead them to places they never knew they'd end up in....Read More
EMP (working title)
Isolated in the Wyoming desert lies a warehouse city called Revenance full of unsold and shelved consumer electronics. Among these excesses of commercial enterprise live the mysterious anthromechs, AI-driven robots trained on human brain scans from the past. What befell the humanity that built and filled Revenance, and who controls the RegenStar program that appears to be behind the anthromechs' unique lifecycle? Follow along with Emily, a nonbinary computer programmer from our dystopian future ...Read More
Things to Remember Us By
A race of simulated beings struggle to please a god who is distracted by divorce and corporate restructuring....Read More