Fantasy
Meeting the Parents
An excerpt from the new novel, Outsiders, by William Collier Doran had offered to drive, which meant that he would be picking her up. They had been dating now for several months, and the thought of him still made a very girlish part of her go giggly. Waiting for him now only exacerbated it. That…
Read MoreThe Mission
An excerpt from the new novel, Outsiders, by William Collier Bulbous, faceted eyes, blown wildly out of proportion, huge, reflecting an oily rainbow of green, orange, and brown hues, leaving room only for the tiniest bit of head to support them—just enough head to attach also what it had in place of a mouth: this…
Read MoreOutsiders, a novel
A special forces team, on what should have been a simple, uncontested operation to extract an unimportant source from neutral territory, is ambushed during exfil and nearly wiped out. A graduate student of machine learning and AI discovers an artificial neural network operating on the Internet, the likes of which no one has ever conceived.…
Read MoreWarrior, the Game
Realistic is a dangerous word in the game industry. Realistic games often bog down in detailed simulation, and no one has any fun. At the same time, though, tabletop games are notorious for their terrible representation of guns and gunplay. Want something better? Want the hard-hitting action of Jason Bourne or John Wick in a…
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