The Swarm Cycle is a collection of stories written around a concept introduced by the Thinking Horndog about an alien invasion and Earth's reaction to it. The intent is for it to be a public, multi-author universe after the fashion of the popular Naked in School stories.
The Sa'arm, a tripedal race with some physical resemblance to a cross between a mushroom and a lizard but with a hive mind, is sweeping across this galactic arm toward the center. They communicate by some sort of ESP, and ignore any race that does not. In their path is the Confederacy, a Galactic civilization that universally practices nonviolence -- and Earth...
Interested authors should visit our wiki at: https://swarmwiki.tampaad.net/index.php?title=Main_Page This describes canon for the Cycle -- the rules, if you will. We have an author support group, but are suffering issues over the email list. Contact Thinking Horndog or Zen Master.
Sometimes you can use multiple problems to solve each other. Which is fine for everyone except for the 'problems' who get used. The Humans of Earth would never have been contacted if the Confederacy hadn't been desperate... / (Reviews)
This story is set in the Swarm Cycle Universe created by Thinking Horndog. It is a story about how a fourteen year old man who became a sponsor and formed his household. This is the first of a series of stories about the Einstein Colony. / (Reviews)
In this episode the Hero's greater household expands. This is a story set in ThinkingHorndog's The Swarm Cycle Universe. Please read The Einstein Extraction before reading this story
This is the story of the migration south in the United States during the Sa'arm invasion during the fourteenth year of the Sa'arm Era. This story is set on Earth in 'The Swarm Cycle Universe' created by Thinking Horndog
On the day that the President announced that aliens had approached humanity about fighting another alien race, Mark Parker was a eighth grade student worried more about surviving the jungle that was his school than going to war. Little could he realize just how much his life and the lives of his friends would change as he tried to protect those close to him from what was coming. / (Reviews)