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 examine the Swarm Author's page at http://www.asstr.org/~Thinkers_tales/Stories/The_Swarm/Swarm_Authors.html
Set in the Swarm Universe, this story follows Priests of the cosca as they find, woo and win wives on Catania. Lots of sex in this one, with a dash of humor for fun!
The Swift fighter program was almost scrapped by the Confederacy because it was too much airplane for even the above average person to fly. In a last ditch effort to save the program, a whole new way of selecting, augmenting and training volunteers was tried. It worked, but would the price for success be too high?
A Swarm cycle story. Someone has to keep America's morale from crumbling. Jerry is the man of the hour. (Please note: This is a bit dated. It was written in 2008 and many references are for that time and the upcoming presidential election. No political bias was included; it is pure humor.)
All in grey, all in grey I wonder where they'll lay All those nuns with nowhere to pray The Civil Service does some unofficial recruiting back on Earth.
A Swarm Cycle story. Mark is a growing boy. He needs more than replicator food. He needs Thanksgiving leftovers. And if any unattached females happen to be in sight...
