A tabletop RPG and fiction setting by Vyr Cossont and millenomi. It’s a fantasy setting with hard sci-fi trappings about humanity breaking into another universe, fallen utopias, and everyday life in the thin sliver of this dead cosmos that was terraformed to sustain the descendants of these ancient interlopers.
It’s a setting where history has consequences, vistas are beautiful, familiar battles rage anew, and a better world is feasible; and where queer pilots can joyride on mechs, curse destiny, birth new gods, and flirt at swordpoint.
It was inspired by a misreading of the cover of Armour Astir by Briar Sovereign, and was developed for use with that game.
If you’re looking for texts by, for, or about people who transverse or transcend western gender norms, you’re in the right place! Trans Reads is the world’s largest collection of free trans-focused literature. We offer a wide variety of books, essays, zines, chapters, articles, and more!
A century after the cataclysmic Earth-Space War between the colonies and the Earth Protectorate, most of the human population now dwells in space. People depend on technology for every moment of their survival, and machines depend on technopaths - Autistics trained from a young age and modified to interface with computers directly. These are their stories.
Our flagship story Ætherglow is updated frequently and directed by polls. To participate, just read the story and vote in the polls with each post to decide the fate of an Autistic femboy technopath in training at Translunar Academy.
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Book Banning has existed in America since colonial times, when legislatures and royal governors enacted laws against blasphemy and seditious libel. Legislatures in the early American republic passed laws against obscenity. Though freedom of the press has grown significantly over the course of the twentieth century, book banning and related forms of censorship have persisted due to cyclical concerns about affronts to cultural, political, moral, and religious orthodoxy.
Thanks to the ALA for their Banned & Challenged Books lists.
This work-in-progress is a comprehensive quotation-based dictionary of the language of science fiction. The HD/SF is an offshoot of a project begun by the Oxford English Dictionary (though it is no longer formally affiliated with it). It is edited by Jesse Sheidlower.
An updated version of the Beyond Cyberpunk hypercard stack from the early 1990's. It's kind of dated (cyberpunk's kind of dated, truth be told), but as a historical resource, or a resource for fiction writers you might find it of interest.
The homepage of Grant Morrison.
C'thul'hu for president!
A community-built and maintained database of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that includes bibliographic data, community reviews, ISBN numbers of as many editions as people can find (of use to amateur librarians such as myself), and links to anthologies.
Hopefully the stories in here are better than the new batch of official novels.
A wiki full of weird stuff, conspiracy theories, and strange happenings to inspire scenarios in your tabletop or live-action RPG.
A short story written by Neil Gaiman as a dictated autobiography of C'thul'hu.
The subtle wit of Isaac Asimov.
A publisher reprinting rare, forgotten, and unusual texts. Download them as .pdfs or purchase them online. Many categories are represented, from epic sagas to classical fiction, drama to architecture, history to technology.
An archive of Eclipse Phase fiction at fanfiction.net.