A Hundred Asciending - Chapter 25 of a free science fiction serial

Science Fiction Serial – Departure

This week in one of the final chapters of my science fiction serial, the countdown on the Time drive is on. Rashid is sent down to Earth on a desperate mission while the villagers make preparations for the jump through time and space to an uncertain past. I have to admit, after all this time I’m kinda a little bit… weird about this ending. It’ll be another two chapters I hope at most; then begins the rewrites, and then posting it on Amazon for sale in a new draft. This all began partly because I wanted to see if I

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Free Sci-Fi Serial “A Hundred Ascending” new chapter – Fine Print on Instructions

After fighting for an escape, it turns out there’s a price. The villagers activate the Time drive, hoping for an escape to the past. But it turns out they need an anchor on Earth to make this work. One of them has to stay behind. Left on Earth to hold the door open while everyone else vanishes into history. One person against an empire, with no way home and no way back to the people they love, and the villagers have less than a week to decide who to send to their death. Ten volunteers step forward. But in the

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A Hundred Ascending: New Chapter – Inside One Big Nightmare

New chapter: Inside One Big Nightmare. As the village agonizes over whether to stay and fight or flee into the past, the networked nanites spontaneously generate a shared nightmare: a single, unbroken vision of the doom that follows if they stay. The next night, unable to sleep, Ian and Maureen meet at the Time Drive. Their quiet reckoning reveals Maureen’s resistance for what it truly is: grief and fear of losing those she loves again. She relents, and the station wakes to their two names in a ring of ten. Read the latest chapter → https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/150567/a-hundred-ascending/ Thank you for being part

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Serial Fiction – A Hundred Ascending new chapter

In this week’s update to my ongoing serial fiction, Magnus and Elara talk. In a quiet, sunlit corner of a park that isn’t real, she offers Magnus the one thing she can: the truth about the violation she committed, and the tragedy that shaped it. Magnus listens. He does not forgive — not yet, perhaps not ever. Instead, he does something harder. He takes back the only thing that was ever truly his to give: the choice of who he becomes next. I wasn’t sure how well this goes down, but my thought process: if you had an alien intelligence

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