Other Profile's Sci-Fi Stories
7 stories
Geisha, Killer, Robot, Spy by JanGoesWriting
Geisha, Killer, Robot, Spy
JanGoesWriting
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  • Parts 30
When a perfect, beautiful robot, Tetsuya, crashes into Merci's trash hover-truck, it leads to a desperate race. Not only for survival, but for precious memories lost within the bot's mind that could expose a conspiracy that goes to the highest echelons of Tether society. With the dogged, relentless Thought:Sinister troopers snapping at their heels at every turn, Merci and Tetsuya must navigate the worst, most deprived areas of the Tether in search of new allies and old friends in an attempt to evade capture, or worse, by authorities that will do anything to stop them. From the flashing lights and holo-images of Goodfellow Sector, to the ruins of Trashtown, from the invisible, ephemeral reaches of Thought-Scape, to a long forgotten Sector of the Tether, Merci and Tetsuya race for their lives and the very future of the Tether for both human and bot alike. The third novel in the series that includes Wattys 2021 Shortlister, "Anna In The Garden", and the multiple ambassador profile featured "They Don't Care About Robots, Do They?".
Mother Sun by JanGoesWriting
Mother Sun
JanGoesWriting
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  • Parts 38
It should have heralded the dawn of a new age. A future that would see the human race reach out and then stride among the stars. But a conspiracy hundreds of years in the making comes to fruition at the beginning of humankind's greatest achievement, and its greatest failure. For the fifteen thousand occupants of the decommissioned space station, Sekai No Mirai, and its commander, Shani Akinye, the point where everything ends for humanity is the point where the fight for survival begins. Lost, stranded, millions of light years from Earth, the crew and the people of Mirai station must fight to return home against ever-increasing odds against them and, in the process, save the enemy that brought disaster to the Earth. An SF epic in the vein of Battlestar Galactica, Space:1999 and The Expanse, from Wattys 2021 winner, Jan Karlsson. Cover created in Canva, using an AI generated picture.
Entity [The Ambys 2024 Grand Favourite (Sci. Fi.)] by JanGoesWriting
Entity [The Ambys 2024 Grand Favourite (Sci. Fi.)]
JanGoesWriting
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  • Parts 18
In the furthest reaches of the Solar System, brave, if foolhardy, people search the Kuiper Belt for resources the inter-planetary colonies and stations desperately need to survive. It requires people with the strength to spend years away from home, or the desire to make enough to live a comfortable life. On her second rotation among the vastness of space, Samantha Porter finds herself and her crew-mates about to embark on a discovery that could shake the very foundations of belief and culture when they uncover something both wondrous and deadly. In a desperate fight for survival, Samantha must find reserves of courage she never knew existed in order to escape the clutches of an entity beyond imagining. A tense sci-fi thriller novella for ONC 2024, based upon Prompt 76 - "Cap? We need you on the bridge now. AI registers an extensive asteroid field and ... oh my god!".
Foston Slacks - Good's Intentions by JanGoesWriting
Foston Slacks - Good's Intentions
JanGoesWriting
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  • Parts 40
Wattys 2024 Shortlist and sequel to the Wattys 2021 winning story (Sci-Fi category), "Foston Slacks - Time's Flies". Foston and Clara saved the multiverse, which was great, because Clara was the one that endangered it in the first place. Afterward, Foston left her back in her drab, boring, humdrum, safe life. For all of a few hours. Now he's back, with a new, adorable and cuddly face with news that the multiverse is in danger, which was probably also because of Clara. With time running out, and Time helping out, Clara and Foston must seek out the source of all the trouble. Well, the other source. Travelling through space and time, exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new ... wait ... wrong franchise. To save the multiverse, Clara must go to Hell and back (not a euphemism), to a world populated by very familiar people and to a Tibetan monastery two hundred years in the past where both cricket and jazz are invented far too early. Foston and Clara. Together again to save the multiverse. Again. Cover created in Canva, using stock pictures from Pixabay.
Foston Slacks - Time's Flies by JanGoesWriting
Foston Slacks - Time's Flies
JanGoesWriting
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  • Parts 38
[Wattys 2021 Winner - Sci-Fi Category] Clara only wanted to reach her interview on time. Now she finds herself lost in time, space and reality with only an impeccably dressed six-foot tall lemur for company. Dragged through Breaches to alternative realities, timelines, alien worlds and a filthy diner off the I95, all she wants is to return home. Preferably before tea-time. Trigger Warnings: Severe shoe damage, references to drug taking (Bloody Linda!), oh, and minor foul language. Unsuitable for hydroelectric citizens of Vardak V (Citizens of Vardak IV and VI have shown no signs of explosive side-effects. So far). Gluten free. #1 in #Bonkers (2nd Sept. 2020) - Achievement unlocked! 🥇 1st place Winner of the Sci-Fi category of the "Starlight Awards"! Woohoo! 🥇 1st place Winner of the General Fiction category of the "Dream Heart Awards"! Cover by @LynaForge
They Don't Care About Robots, Do They? by JanGoesWriting
They Don't Care About Robots, Do They?
JanGoesWriting
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  • Parts 38
Once a cop, now a private eye. Once human, now a cyborg. Dalton Steel had scraped a living investigating the things that were beneath the cops he used to work with. Except those cases that involved bots. Until a beautiful woman, a beautiful bot created to mimic a beautiful woman to perfection, hands him the case of a serial bot killer. The investigation takes him from deepest, darkest pits, to the gleaming, cleanest Sectors of the Tether, where Dalton finds himself involved in a conspiracy that could cost the lives of thousands, millions of humans. Walking a fine line between the human and bot worlds, Dalton must face his own humanity and mortality to bring a genius killer to justice. A hardboiled, cyberpunk, noir detective story, set in the same world as "Anna In The Garden". 🥉3rd Place, The Ōkami Awards, Sci-Fi category - Sept '22🥉 🏵Featured by @BadassReads, 'The Dauntless' Reading list - Sept '23🏵 Cover created in Canva, using an AI generated picture.
Anna In The Garden by JanGoesWriting
Anna In The Garden
JanGoesWriting
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  • Parts 44
[Watty's 2021 Shortlister] Two girls. Separated. Connected. For Anna, her world is one of privilege and safety. A lonely prison. Ken lives with complete freedom, but her world is one of darkness and danger around every corner. When their worlds collide, neither knows if the other is real or only a dream. To find out, each must undertake a journey that takes them far from the worlds they know, into the unknown. 🥇1st place in the Sci-Fi category of "The Temeraire Awards"! (1 Mar 2021) 🥇1st place (tied) in the Sci-Fi category of "The Rainbow Awards"! 🥈2nd place in "Hello 2021 Awards"! 🥈2nd place, Sci-Fi category, of the "One In A Million Awards"! (11 Oct 2021) Cover created in Canva, using an AI generated picture.