So a group of kids / teenagers get abducted and changed by aliens to be killing machines, only to return to earth during an apocalypse. Where they run into ppl they once knew.
So a group of kids / teenagers get abducted and changed by aliens to be killing machines, only to return to earth during an apocalypse. Where they run into ppl they once knew.
It might be Tangent by Gina Marie Wylie. Though it's been a long time since I read it
Description: Shanghaied across the time dimensions, middle school student Judy Bondi, her classmates and an extraordinary man deal with a history they never learned in school. Instead of reading history, they're making it! A fanfic set in H. Beam Piper's Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen universe.
https://storiesonline.net/s/50382/tangent
https://storiesonline.net/a/Gina_Marie_Wylie
Definitely NOT "Tangent". That is a fanfiction sequel to H. Beam Piper's novel, "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen."
There was a story called Havoc (as in "Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war") that had the basic premise. I don't remember it with an apocalypse, I believe they were looking for R and R. I THINK it was on asstr, I definitely do not remember an author.
Good Hunting, limab
There was previously a story called 'Dogs of War' by The Lurker https://storiesonline.net/a/The_Lurker but it appears to have been removed at some point.
Most things are either on the river or are long buried beneath it, lying in the deepest, unreachable ocean trenches, since few smaller bodies of water have similar trenches! It's easy enough to lose ships in the Great Lakes, yet they aren't nearly as deep. ;)
It's a convoluted reference to how Amazon has its fingers in virtually everything nowadays, the proverbial 800lb. gorilla in the room.
I like creating metaphors on occasion, which I can understand being harder to process for those who don't create their own. So this metaphor was bit … belabored, weighted down by the accumulated sea grasses hanging off it.
That river I know. But "buried underneath it"? "ocean trenches"? "great lakes"?
It seems to be an obvious metaphor to me.
If you "plunge" into the waters of the "Big River" you will be inundated by offers from those who have Paid to get premium locations in the search engine. Often, even if you enter a specific title, the Algorithm will still present the Paid for titles, and Not the story you are searching for. If you Don't know the title (or author) of the story you are looking for, it is unlikely you will ever find it; as it will be deep ("buried") hundreds or even thousands of pages deep ("in the ocean trenches") in "suggested" story titles.
Most people aren't willing to tab through more than a couple of pages while shopping online.
This is one version of "Shadow Banning" sure the story is on the website, however, it is unlikely even a determined person will find it. No casual browser will ever see it (perhaps "1 in a Million" might randomly select page 2,252 and see it among the 10 to 50 other selections).
The reason I intend to post on Bookapy (now renamed) is because I would likely have more readers find my story if I geocached it beyond the Arctic Circle, than if I tried to sell it on "The Big River"...
Often, even if you enter a specific title, the Algorithm will still present the Paid for titles, and Not the story you are searching for.
When I still had delusions of being able to write, I tried to search the river to see whether anyone had ripped off my novel 'Gay!'. Even if they had, I'm not sure anyone would ever be able to find it, even knowing the title. By comparison, it was relatively easy to find copies of my novel on South Asian porn video sites.
AJ
That's one thing I learned early in publishing, is using distinctive titles. As I title one story "Stranded" and when users started complaining of not being able to find it, I did a search, and a couple thousand other book tiles covering virtually ever, single genre. So I expanded it to Stranger in a Foreign Land, which while hardly original, there aren't nearly as many of those titles.
"Stranger in a Foreign Land" might not be the best example. It sounds like a Heinlein parody.
That's what i was referring to, yet being one of two is much better than being one of 2,000+. Plus, the cover, the description and everything else has no similarity than that particular book. Well, aside from being in the same genre.
Oops. Sorry, that was a typo. It was actually Stranded in a Strange Land. Renaming it "Stranger" would make no sense at all.