In 2102, a crack team of scientists aboard the I.S.S. Experimenting with a new space-based atom smasher finally managed to tear a hole in space-time while searching for some method of teleportation to make intergalactic travel easier after the world’s over-population became disastrous. This hole did not pave a way for teleportation or intergalactic travel, h...
While I generally leave anything referring to comic books or superheroes to my esteemed friend and colleague Rebekah Hendershot, author of Masks, I am now stepping in. Dear Disney, you own Marvel now. Have Joe Quesada walk the plank off the roof of 666 5th avenue. You can have Johnny Depp hold the sword that nudges him off, if you like. Why do I say that?...
The year is 2704 or more commonly know throughout the galaxy as 543 Cosmic Century. Humanity has spread its wings and taken to the stars. Establishing connections to the rest of the Galaxy and taking its place as a prominent figure in the galaxy. Before taking their place along the other races among the stars the human race had been locked in a brutal civil...
The sun rose over the horizon, and I closed my eyes. Normally, this would mean it's time to sleep. However, with ash clouds blotting out much of the sun, a perpetual gloom hangs over Boston's battered skyline today. This means I can still go hunting. Last night I fed, draining a young White Muslim female spy of her blood. It's morning and I'm still hungry. A...
Copyright Nora Quick 2012. As always, I welcome comments and feedback! ______________________________________ "Again!" Morrigan cried and I swiftly turned and brought my sword to my opponent's neck. Faster this time, he dropped his broadsword and cried mercy. My goddess clapped. "Keelin, this is excellent!" I was dripping with sweat. For two years I'd w...
Magic. That's how it began. Usually such a statement brings nothing but foreboding, and I would like to make a statement right now that I have not written this book to make people fear. I have written this treatise for the exact opposite reason, if truth be told. Nine and a quarter centuries ago humans had truly conquered Earth. Of course, the price had be...
The 21st Century and the events which took place during that time, to some, could be considered a continuation of the Cold War which supposedly ended in 1992. The world was still split into two major political and social blocs: East and West. Even with the 30 year period of grace after the Soviet Union fell, tensions soon after started building up at a rate...
My name is Arthur Hyperion. I was born on the planet Tetrarch in the twenty third century. The First Son of Clan Hyperion. Descended from the legendary Alexander Hyperion, Progenitor of the Evolved People. We who are descended from genetically enhanced men and women from ancient Earth. We who have conquered the stars and proven ourselves more than capable of...
Back in the summer of 1997, I needed a summer school credit in order to graduate. So I signed up for ENC 1001, English Composition. There were a variety of writing topics, but one of them was a "saturation" paper. The idea was for a group of students to go to a location as a group, immerse ourselves in the surroundings and write about the things we saw, tryi...
Welcome to Swords & Spells universe and the world of Gaian and the continent of Eurya! Gaian is a world very similar to ours, geographically speaking. In it, multiples races coexist in a fragile state of peace. Particularly, in Eurya, mankind flourished in the last centuries, and its clans spreaded all over the world, sometimes coexisting peacefully wit...