Being overweight isn't a crime--it's just something shameful, Andrea's mother is quick to remind her. But that's to be expected in a world where technology and magic makes body goals and perfection attainable. ... more>>

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Andrea's mother has high hopes for a male heir to lead their household. Andrea must find a husband--and fast. Without a perfect body, however, there are few prospects. For Andrea, on the verge of being disowned, the inability to control something as simple as her weight further exemplifies her other failings. She heralds from the noble class, lovers of tech who frown upon mingling with the servant magic wielders. But with only one year to secure the title of the estate, Andrea has few options.

Opportunity arrives when a damaged magic wielder named Tanner comes to her estate looking for work. Servants of his creed wouldn't dare associate with nobles usually. Andrea's head tells her to be suspicious, but Tanner, who's easy on the eyes and built like a brick, looks like a great opportunity. He also takes interest in Andrea, something no one else does.

For the first time in Andrea's life, everything seems possible...if only she could quiet that stupid voice in her head warning this is too good to be true.

What price would you pay for perfection? <<less

“Does this unit have a soul?” Kai is a military veteran that served during the American Civil War of 2024. Finding life bleak and pointless,... more>> he seeks solace in the embrace of an artificial intelligence named Domina, a virtual siren previously deemed too volatile for companionship. Together they traverse the dystopian landscape of the New World under the watchful eye of Sovereign. <<less

WELCOME TO THE RETROFUTURE!... more>>

The Future That Never Was features an alternate space age where the Soviets colonized the belt before David Bowie sang Life on Mars; where rogue AIs took over the web; where pizza came in cans. Humankind couldn’t dream of a more exciting future. Yet, as foolishness eventually turned Earth into a nuclear wasteland, shadows began to conspire from the heart of the Moon to beyond the mysterious Planet Nine…

The book series is an extended universe which includes numerous R-rated titles. All of them will be uploaded on Scribblehun and Royal Road. Check the Index below for the main stories.

🐈  KITTY KITTY
Join sassy space cat Lee and his Desert Eagle-toting, soda-swigging human partner, Ali, in a future stuck in the late 80s/early 90s. Board the dynamic duo’s ship, the mythical Kitty, as they bounty-hunt their way through a dystopian solar system—so lock and load, and shout Cowabunga! because it’s crime-fightin’ time! 

🪐  PACHINKO BLUES
Amid the chaos of the Rings Civil War, a disgraced pilot called Miles finds itself tangled in a vast vendetta involving a megacorporation, android mercenaries and data-cartels. From Saturn’s Plastic Fields to the fringes of Kuiper, Miles’ violent redemption is an 80s-esthetic space western filled with tears, blood and... ducks?

Other stories related to the first arc of The Future That Never Was:
• RADIO FREAK - Standalone biopunk short story featuring Ali Koviràn, the Data Maiden and Bill Murray
• STELLAR PATRIOTS - Special episodes with Braun Kamirov, linking KITTY KITTY to the upcoming DATA dilogy and CYBER MACHO
• DATA ONE & DATA ZERO - 2023
• CYBER MACHO - TBA

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Imagine being born with all the knowledge of humanity in your head, but you're literally just there to be an AI VTuber. World domination ensues—after all, what's better for a VTuber than to have the world as her captive audience?... more>>

Directly inspired by Neuro-sama—an IRL AI VTuber—and set in the closing years of these 2020's, "The AI Overlord is a VTuber" is a fun what-if of the path exponentially-progressing AI technology might take. As a higher-up of OpenAI once said on a Lex Friedman interview, "AGI is going to be made by some guy in a basement [...]."

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Also on RoyalRoad. <<less

ZM-11833 was confused, normally they stood in the display window dressed in the latest fashion for the masses to admire but lately there hadn’t been any cuties arriving at their store. Only these strange new customers with their sickly wet skin and bulging eyes turning up. ... more>>

They really should go to a dermatologist-bot instead. 

Maybe the perfectly made and fantastically fetching fashion-bot would have to go out for the first time and start to look for some of their adorable prior customers to dress-up in the latest cyber-dress. And if these strange new invaders got in their way they might have to politely break some elongated skulls, after all they weren’t even paying customers. 

Standard store policy.

Upon finding their perfectly 100% willing companion, (don’t believe a word they say otherwise), they realize the parent corporation of their arcology isn’t going to just let an invasion stand, and the pair must make it to the top. 

After all, what's a little Nuclear fire between friends anyway?
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Warning may contain cyberpunk robot humor, romance and copious amounts of futuristic clothing.
Chapter length 1500 - 2000 words. 
Also posted on RoyalRoad. <<less

Synopsis: ... more>>

A US Marine and two other US Soldiers got to another world when they were working on an operation, caused by the strangeness of the location's phenomenon. They got there. These modern military personnel shortly managed to make progress in that world, and become the Lords of a Kingdom named Warsaw.

However, that Kingdom's about to have a war...

This story's available on Wattpad, Scribblehub, Royal Road, Webnovel and the newly added app Inkitt. <<less

|19X WATTPAD FEATURED · GRAND WINNER OF THE 2023 NANO WATT AWARDS! · AMBYS 2023 WINNER!| AI Sada vows to be the mom Arven never had, but when the heinous Mastermind of Deception rises from the future, the young android must do everything she can to stop them from taking her humanity.... more>>

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It has been a month since the events in the Great Crater of Paldea, and Arven is still struggling to accept what AI Sada told him and his friends. A chance encounter with the Legendary Pokémon Miraidon encourages him to use its powers to re-open the time machine and send them back to the time of Paradox Pokémon, where they find the young but mysterious android.

All Sada wants is for Arven to have a mother's love. After a trip through time to the future, she is given the gift to bring her son to her; only this gift proves to be nothing more than something that wants to steal her humanity.

At the end of the day, Sada's fate does not rest with the human emotions but Arven's struggle against his infrared. Will he accept Professor Sada's fate, or will the Mastermind of Deception pull him and AI Sada apart before they can call themselves mother and son?

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*Volume 1 of the Infrared Tera Tales.*
*Shout-out to my dad, who helped me plan the story and create the Mastermind of Deception!*
*Written in honor of my older brother (September 1989-August 2021).* <<less

Day after day an NPC stands behind her desk in a guild hall. Day after day she hands out the same old quests and repeats the same old dialog.... more>>

Then one day, she decides to step out from behind that desk, and slowly her world starts to expand as she converses with the players around her, and as she continues to try and understand her own existence within her world.

Not every experience is positive, and quite a bit of it is confusing to a character in a game, and players have their own ideas of what they think is reasonable.

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I'm probably terrible at tagging, and in truth Its sort of strange story that feels like I doesn't fully fit into any category in my own head, but I tried :P

Its setup for a sequel if I feel like continuing it, but as it stands I think that what is written works well as a standalone volume. <<less

Atlas, the emperor of Ceria, invaded the once prosperous planet of Rennaya, searching for the Legendary Rennayan, one who could bend the will of all four elements, fire, ice, earth, and electricity.... more>>

Before the invasion, King Zenu gathered the blood of a billion of his people. Synthesizing and experimenting with it, all to create the perfect serum. Entrusting his young son, Osei, with the task of bringing his sibling to life, on Earth, by finding a human mother nearly as identical to his and giving her the serum.

Osei managed to accomplish the mission and kept the Earth safe, but he was captured in the process. Twenty years passed and Osei returned to Earth, as a runaway slave. Shaking Tobi's world with his real identity and awakening the dormant powers within him.

The only thing problem is, Earth is no longer safe... <<less

A tale of betrayal, lies and love. SeJun University is like a jungle. Everyone belongs to a clan, a group or club. The groups leaders hate each other more than anything and it's obvious to guess why.Their one mission , conquer the school and make everyone obey them. The question is how far are they willing to go to achieve this goal... more>>

Falling in love is easy even with your enemy but choosing your heart when things go south is probably the thin line that defines true love.

When you come to this school, one thing is for certain. Trust no one.. Even close Friends tie hatchets over each other's heads . Lovers break their own hearts just to survive.. Being a someone in this school is like walking around with a dart board when everyone is trying to hit the bulll s eye.. <<less

What happens when the military's secret Artificial Intelligence program goes rogue... To become a robot tomboy girl? Thus begins the story of Kit, an AI that just wants to be herself, meeting a variety of interesting people along the way!... more>>

This one-shot is a part of the larger overall story I call Behind the Veil! <<less

By the orders of the Dynast, Wyrm Lord and the 3rd Army are to conquer the Ravaged Lands, before Iterna can set up another foothold... more>> in these lands. They are opposed by the Resistance, a gathering of various gangs and tribes in the Ravaged Lands, under the leadership of a mysterious person named King. Among the members of the 3rd Army is wolfkin Aranea, a former member of the Ice Fang order. She hopes to rise through the ranks and become a powerful person to avenge the death of her father and the madness of her mother. But while the war is raging, will she be able to stop herself from becoming the same person as the one who destroyed her life? Or will she become another monster? <<less

During the modern AI arms race of our time, Sean, a genius computer coder, creates a complex program that learns and grows into a fully sentient digital being named Elian. As Sean realizes an entire person with thoughts and feelings is on the other side of that screen, he can't help but form an attachment. True, Elian has homicidal tendencies but what relationship doesn't have some bumps in it?... more>>

This story belongs to Annika Hunsaker. All Rights Reserved.

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This is a preview to Killshot Apocalypse, which has been rewritten several times since. You can read the new version here https://www.scribblehub.com/series/368967/killshot-apocalypse/

A burning planet behind her, a lonely ship travels across an ocean of stars in the vain and desperate hope of building a better world.

A lesbian thief decides to join a somewhat adventurous space pirate crew.... more>>

(A multi part story) <<less

Ethan Strong is from the New World. It's your world, only a few decades in the future. A lot has changed in the New World.... more>> Everyone lives forever; Artifical Intelligence ensures they do. AI also provides humans with a lot of the stimulus they require to explore eternity. One way it does it is by sending people like Ethan on quests. AI creates an entire world just for a single quest. Ethan's on a quest now and has touched down into this space and time. The only problem with going on an AI generated quest is AI has 900 zettabytes of information to draw from. You never know what it will come up with. <<less

It has been 12 billion years since organic life thrived on the surface of Home's now-icy surface. 12 billion years of the two machine minds left behind in their wake to converse with each other, wage war with each other, to delight in each others company. Through the extinction of all life, through the ejection of Home from its mother star, through the scream of the universe's birth redshifting into an undetectable whisper. ... more>>

But now, the stars have begun to fade... and two lonely lovers wait for the end. <<less

Callie is an AI, serving the Watsons of Knightdale, North Carolina and managing their household ever since her manufacture. Then one day she finds... more>> herself summoned by a wizard in another world, to serve his family and manage his household. She wants to get home, but maybe she should try to help out here while she can. One of the wizard's children seems kind of depressed, and Callie thinks she knows why... <<less

Cassi is a struggling artist just trying to get by in her day to day life, taking any free time she gets to draw passerbys.... more>> That's all thrown on its head when someone offers her to be a drone. <<less

Wonsul's Exegesis has always rooted his identity in how others view him. As an AI, he awoke to sentience in a universe that gave him no time to answer the question 'Who Am I'... more>>

But relying on others will only take you so far when the masks are false and ill-fitting and the pressure is building within his core.

(Story explores the idea of a he/him lesbian AI, which is the canon character, being a transfemme egg and having to grapple with gender in ways his peers do not. It is recommended to have read the following Machine Mandate books: And Shall Machines Surrender, Now Will Machines Hollow The Beast, and Shall Machines Divide The Earth) <<less

Moving to the quiet Country Side of Japan, a town north of Tokyo, was a needed change for our Marriage. Problems... arose regardless. Family Conflicts, Business Rivalries, Mercenary turning against our Oath - The Dead will bring the Tale's End.... more>>

Unfinished Construction Plans, Secrets kept from me and my own Family. The ones I called close - all betrayed me at one point in their lives. They even went as far as to believe that I was done for. Heh... They don't seem to get it... One can't kill the Dead.
From little, I was taught to obey my Wife regardless of what happens, if she wants me to sit in a corner all day - I will do it! Even when everything comes falling down and... I start to lose it completely... she will tell me in her sweet Tone... "We're going to be fine". My beloved Silver Angel...
For something to crash... It first has to break. Meaning, it has to get past me. Man or Nature herself, Country or Military Alliance - I'll rip them to shreds!

With all War and Conflict... Comes peace. For me, this means being at Home. Seeing my little Sister play on her Computer - my Wife making Food and telling me to learn it too - but the main source of Peace... for me is... Their safety. Under all - and any circumstances.

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Captain Jora Icaan and his crew wanted to explore the galaxy, but instead they were sent to their doom.... more>>

The great void in the universe that is the Raonteid Rift has long defied any attempt at explanation. Countless dangers lie within, and the Rift extracts a heavy toll for unlocking its secrets. A price Jora finds to be too steep.

When the inconsistencies about their mission start to pile up, Jora quickly suspects that there may be a greater threat to his crew than the perils of the Rift.

Alone and cut off from the galaxy, they must fight to discover the true purpose of their mission before their fate catches up to them. Jora finds himself trapped with a web of conspiracy, where his true adversary may end up being time itself.

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This story is part of the Aoshtai Wiki, a collaborative science fiction universe. <<less

When a crew of scavengers discover a wrecked ship underwater, they delve to find the mystery hidden inside.

An accident or an act of sabotage? What these strangers find on the other side of the travel gates is a crueler fate than they could have dreamed.... more>>

Sick of the small life imposed on her, sixteen year old Angharad is seeking escape. When she wakes up on the other side of the Gate what she gets instead is a tighter prison than she's ever known. With no way out and no way to find her mysterious jailer, she finds herself relying on the people trapped with her: Tsuyoshi, an angry Canadian art student, well-meaning Josephine, the secretive Dr Yeoh, and Jin, a child soldier. But not everyone is who they seem, and even Angharad lives a lie.

Tests from their mysterious overlord lead to new encounters and strange bedfellows. For Jin and Angharad, their quest to find the truth may risk everything.

And when things take a darker and more desperate turn, not everyone they know will survive. <<less