Hi.
I'm trying to poll people here - do you have a favorite sci-fi story here?
Just want to see what gems I can unearth.
Examples of stories I like:
Close Encounter of the Fifth kind
A terrain trader on toolondo
The Swarm Cycle
The Dizyntk series.
Al Steiners Greenies Universe.
Vanessa Ravencrofts Neo-Viking and Green Hell Stories
Lazlo Zalesacs Druids books
cmsix books
Refusniks books
Life on Another Planet by Coaster2
The Seventh Sense by Lubrican
Kenn Ghannon's 'CAPable' stories (swarm cycle)
Sinaan Reis by Saul (in progress)
Lumpy's Imperium series (book 4 in progress)
Castaway by Colin Barrett
AJ
You consider "Life on Another Planet" to be SciFi or Fantasy? In spite of the title, I'd disagree with that one.
You consider "Life on Another Planet" to be SciFi or Fantasy? In spite of the title, I'd disagree with that one.
It's certainly not a 'world as we know it' scenario. How would you categorise it?
Even if it's not an exact match to the OP's request, it's worth reading in its own right.
AJ
(this is from memory, I'm not about to re-re-reread it again at this point)
18-year old goes into a coma, awakens as a John Doe in a hospital 45 years later without having aged. He subsequently discovers that the original "him" died all those years previously.
His sister is the only family member still alive, at least one school friend is also still alive.
That's all I'm going to write on the plot, not about to give the rest away for those unfortunates who have not read the story.
I'd classify it as time-travel. If that is a sub-genre of SF then it could maybe qualify, except that there is no attempt made to say how all this came about.
Oh, and his "Repeat Performance" has a somewhat similar plot.
Now, "Radio Days" - also by coaster2 - could maybe be classified as SF.
Howard Faxon had a few great ones too.
https://storiesonline.net/s/70154/im-not-from-around-here
Sadly premier only now that he's passed.
Love the sci-fi genre! I'll start with my own story Arkadia - https://storiesonline.net/s/23328/arkadia and then in no particular order...
Vanessa Ravencroft Eric/Erica Olafson series - https://storiesonline.net/series/1548/erica-olafson
Her "Green Hell" stories in the Galactic Chronicles Universe - https://storiesonline.net/universe/1015/galacric-chronicles-universe
All 3 stories by Refusenik - https://storiesonline.net/a/Refusenik
Fantasy Lover - A Terran Trader on Toolondo - https://storiesonline.net/s/14126/a-terran-trader-on-toolondo
Lots of others on the tip of my tongue but I can spit them out! lol
Flight of the Code Monkey by Kid Wigger
Sean David Kilpatrick Flynn, Book 1 of Wizard - A Love Story by MisguidedChild
Klutz By MisguidedChild
For me it's Anotherp08's Tails from Mist World.
https://storiesonline.net/s/15822/tales-from-mist-world