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 | The Empress And The Captain | Rick Mann | Novel | Science Fiction | 0 | n/a | Feb 26, 2008 |
Summary:Premise: Love midst danger can be found anywhere in the universe. I began this novel about two years ago. I have completed about two-thirds of it. It is about a man, John Smith, a widower who found an empress who won him in a murder trial. It is better to start at the beginning, but if you have read up to here and have not reviewed the chapters,feel free to jump in.Chapters: |
 | Asteroid Thieves | Rick Mann | Short Story | Science Fiction | 10 | 2.25 | Feb 21, 2008 |
Summary:I must have written this story at least thirty years ago. I edited it, only correcting grammar and nits.Chapters: |
 | Excuse Me, What Time Is It? | Justi Moody | Poetry | Poetry | 8 | 0.50 | Jan 30, 2008 |
Summary:As I get older I realize I have always tried to manage time. One can't, one can only manage themselves in the time alloted. Tell me what you think of the concept of this subject as poetry. I love poetry and have written it for years but feel like a novice. Your honesty is always acceptable with me. Chapters: |
 | Archives: Lost in Time pt. 2 | Rick Mann | Short Story | Science Fiction | 4 | 1.15 | Oct 10, 2007 |
Summary:This is part two of a short story about two historians traveling into the past to verify historical events. One returns but the other one remains stuck in the past. Will he be able to devise a way to return to his own time?Chapters: |
 | Archives: Lost in Time | Rick Mann | Short Story | Science Fiction | 7 | 1.70 | Oct 8, 2007 |
Summary:This is a short story of almost 5000 words I am posting in two parts. I wrote it in 1994 and only recently corrected some of the grammar. I got the idea from the collapse of a walkway during a tea dance at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City in 1981. The collapse killed 114 persons and injured more than 200 in the giant ballroom.Chapters: |
 | Mind Block Part 2 | Rick Mann | Short Story | Science Fiction | 5 | 1.30 | May 25, 2007 |
Summary:This is the conclusion to a two-part short story. The invaders succeed in capturing the sealed city. But they run into a surprise.Chapters: |
 | Mind Block Part 1 | Rick Mann | Short Story | Science Fiction | 6 | 1.73 | May 24, 2007 |
Summary:Hundreds of years in the future, man's minds have developed but not all at the same rate. Some who may seem backward, many actually be advanced.Chapters: |
 | Double Play | Rick Mann | Novel | Science Fiction | 3 | n/a | Apr 28, 2007 |
Summary:This is an 8000 word short story about a man from another planet who finds himself charged with criminal physical abuse of his wife, who railroads him into prison. All is not what it seems with the man, nor with those helping him. This will be in several chapters, possibly 6.Chapters: |
 | Planet of No Return | Rick Mann | Short Story | Science Fiction | 5 | 0.80 | Mar 30, 2007 |
Summary:I have been planning of this as a novel for several years and am returning to it in hopes I can make it work as a novel. The premise is: A thousand colonists have landed on a planet populated by what they think are animals but actually are sientient and intelligent beings, somewhat resembling squirrels, who are telepathic. They have found out that some will return to earth to report their find. This is not accepted by the planetary inhabitants. I am submitting this as a short story until I decide what to do with it.Chapters: |
 | For the Want of a Nail | C. J. Andrews | Novel | Humor | 8 | n/a | Jan 17, 2007 |
Summary:Sit back and reflect upon your day. At any time during its course were you inconvenienced by someone? Did they delay you at all? Their actions might have been very subtle you might have even blamed yourself for selecting the wrong check out line or you should have left the office earlier. But what was the result of this momentary delay? Maybe nothing or…..maybe it changed you destiny. Chapters: |
 | Landfall: A Novel | texashawk | Novel | Thrillers | 9 | n/a | Aug 17, 2006 |
Summary:On August 21, 2016, Houston, Texas will be virtually destroyed by the most powerful hurricane ever recorded on the face of the earth - during the second day of the Summer Olympic Games.
This is the story about a city at the edge of doom as billions of people around the world watch its final hours live; a mayor who has spent almost his entire life rebuilding the oil city for this moment and who will not face the devastating reality of the destruction of all that he has built; an emergency management coordinator who is torn between impossible choices that must be made and the politics that shape them; a county judge who must choose between his national political aspirations and a leap of faith, and a woman who has studied hurricanes her whole life and knows what is about to happen, and who must save millions of lives using her knowledge and will alone, and who must summon the courage to embrace the destiny that she did not know was hers until the last night of a city's existence.
This is the first of three planned novels, collectively titled The Landfall Trilogy. The second novel will be Empirefall and the third will be Earthfall.Chapters: |
 | The Dark Sweetness Between the Stars | mike b | Novel | Science Fiction | 22 | n/a | Jan 20, 2006 |
Summary:This is a repackaging of the material I had already published to incorporate feedback and to allow me to get more detailed feedback on the parts. New material is included in the later chapters.
This is a story about relationships, intrigue, and the interstellar trade in chocolate.Chapters: |