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And thus begins the reign of The Oracle.

Lord Manfred Warburton supped lightly from the fine bone china cup in his hand. The cup was adorned with stylized scenes of the Himalayas, and rimmed in gold and silver. The saucer was similarly ornamented, a hand-painted caricature of Kanchenjunga delicately styled in the center. Frivolity, really,...

Count Alexandr Denisovich Ignatieff did not shy from the spray, nor did he attempt to wipe it away, allowing the salt water to flow freely down his face and into his trimmed beard. His thick oil-skin coat shed the water quickly, to pool down around his galoshes before spilling through the gunwales a...

Corporal Christopher Burke whistled as he marched down the dirt road. He stopped whistling for a moment to lean over and spit, the damp spot quickly trampled dry and forgotten in the hot midday sun. The road was lightly shaded by the birch trees that lined the shoulder, and sunlight flickered throug...

Anyone interested please post your E-mail address. The chapters are saved on Google Documents, and I need an E-mail address to give you access.

Hello, I need a proofreader for my Peshawar Lancers story. Simon_Jester was helping me out with it, but he's too busy to help for the time being. I would preferably want a board member with writing experience, but am open to help of any kind.

In advance, thank you.

My first thought is that military airships might be best protected simply by flying higher than ground-based cannons can shoot - the U-2 approach to defense. That way, you only need to worry about the guns on other airships and during low altitude operations. That was attempted during WW1. The prob...

There's a book in S.M. Stirling The General series, The Chosen , which had a late 19th century equivalent power who use military airships. I suppose you could draw inspiration from there, if you care to read it. Essentially, they were used for combat air-drops and bombing, and later on as mid-air re...

I'm just insulted that they turned the Appalachian folks into Cannibals. *snorts* Personally, if they ever travel the New River Valley to the Ohio, I'm betting they'd find a nice connection of towns living off the land, off natural gas power, and off water power from the many creeks in the area. Th...

I have neither the time or patience to write out this story in that sort of detail. Besides, describing how people survive and ISOT scenario has been done before, and to tell you the truth it all seems a bit pretentious. More information regarding their survival will crop up later, but I'm not going...

Yes. I realized after a while that I could make a story using the PL universe without the ISOT element, but this route opens up more possibilities.

The middle-aged attendee threw back the hand woven cloth partition between the outside world and the Chief of Charlotte's hut with a flourish. The man waved the travelers in with his left hand, which was heavily scarred and lacking several fingers. The act was most likely meant to impress visitors. ...

What I had in mind was more of a tidal wave caused by a asteroid impact, something like the movie 'Armageddon'.

What precisely would one expect to happen to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, if a tidal wave were to smash into them? I get that they would be swept away, but would they significantly decrease the waves power? Would the Banks return after a few decades due to shifting sandbars and such?

Just... just keep going. I want to see what the WW does in response.

If this leads to where I think it is... then good show.

You're better off looking in Spacebattles.net; that or AlternateHistory.com, there is a lot of that kind of fiction there.

Can anyone recommend some good reads about Victorian Age militaries and strategies? Particularly regarding land warfare and state/military structure for the powers on the continent.

Chapter 6. The Green Phone was blinking. General Raymond Reeves stared at the blinking light on the receiver for what must have been a long time. But whether it had been a few seconds, or ten minutes, did not matter. It continued to ring. Finally snapping himself out of his daze, General Reeves slow...

I really have no idea why I wrote this. I suppose watching Return of the Jedi just got me too damn excited. -----()---------------------()----- Luke Skywalker ran up to his new found sister, letting her joy seep through their embrace. Just minutes before, he had conducted a funeral for his father, a...

At long last, the promised one has returned. wierd to, as I just re-read this story last month.

It's a good story, But I can't help but hate you for what your doing to the Samothracians.

Chapter 5. Bartholomew Cronsby drank deeply from his canteen, using the back of his arm to wipe the brow under his straw hat when he was done. Beneath the shade of a lone baobob tree, he watched as several of his farm hands worked ox-driven plows beneath the African sun. Many of the farmers in the t...

...it lives...

It's just filler for now, Simon, I'm not particularly concerned about it being a literary masterpiece quite yet. I'll send you the next chapter when I get it done.