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.
Dan Thorpe just lost his wife and stepchildren to the extractions, but Corporal Ayumi Tanaka of the Sheriff's Department shows up at the right time to become his co-sponsor and primary partner. Together, they find concubines and start a new family.
The Admirals' Daughters by Smiley Smith A story in the Swarm Cycle Universe created by Thinking Horndog. Time line: Year Five Swarm Era Another pickup story in the Swarm Cycle.
Inventor. Enforcer. Thief. Left alone, Calix is all of these things for the only family he has left - the Detroit chapter of the national Cholos gang. He has no time for CAP testing; the CAP test was just more of the rich subjugating the poor. What happens when he loses the Cholos? [15 Chapters, 150,000+ words]
A fateful visit for fastfood left Mark Parker and his friends in the middle of a pickup. Now that they have left Earth they discover that the plans they made do not work perfectly. Will Mark maintain the kind and caring heart that carried him this far? And what about his friends and family? / (Reviews)
Martin Wolfe is second from the youngest in a family of siblings left behind by the Confederacy's pickups. He is also the only male, and that soon makes him more than just an annoying brother now.