Found 12 works tagged 'adventure'.
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The Road's End
Published Nov 10, 2020 · 3,116 words (12 minutes) · 166 views
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Carrie Vaughn wrote a beautiful story called "Strife Lingers in Memory." It appeared in Realms of Fantasy, as this story did. Carrie looked at epic fantasy, like Lord of the Rings, and asked what happens to the heroes after the battles are done? I loved the question, so I wrote my answer to the question. "The Road's End" is also in a conversation with Tennyson's poem, "Ulysses." How can an old man put aside his adventures when his entire life is based on the idea of "not to yield"?
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The Rescue
Published Jun 28, 2020 · 4,868 words (18 minutes) · 191 views
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This is another early story, my second (after "The Minstrel") to be published in JAM Magazine. All of my early stories were aimed at teen readers, because I was barely out of that age group myself!
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Sins of the Father
Published Jun 28, 2020 · 5,651 words (21 minutes) · 164 views
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Robert J. Sawyer, in a science-fiction writing class I took at the Banff Centre, had us write, in five minutes, the opening to a story one morning. Those few lines became this short story, which in turn became Marseguro, my second novel for DAW Books, winner of Canada's top science-fiction award, the Aurora, for Best Long-Form Work in English in 2009.
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This Story Will Win a Hugo
Published Jan 22, 2020 · 6,609 words (25 minutes) · 1 like · 378 views
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When Dustin was a boy, he collected pictures of astral objects like children who used to collect Pokemon cards. Now that he's an adult, he's drawn back to his childhood obsession, looking for civilizations among the other worlds. His work would go so much easier if he wasn't being pestered by an eager science fiction writer.
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Confidence Game
Published Sep 16, 2019 · 6,396 words (24 minutes)
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Daryl Yagami quit being a con man and established himself on a remote outpost as a stage magician so he could break free of his past. However, his past catches up with him and soon Daryl is forced to do another job, this time for the government, to steal captured alien technology from a deadly cartel. Fortunately for Daryl, there's a lot about stage magic that is useful for committing a heist.
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My New Novella Is Available For Pre-Order
Published Aug 31, 2019 · 26 words (1 minute) · 308 views
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A God in Chains (excerpt)
Published Aug 7, 2019 · 4,426 words (17 minutes) · 1 like · 1540 views
This is the opening of A God in Chains (Edge SF and Fantasy Publishing, 2019) an adventure/mystery novel set in the fantasy milieu known as the Dying Earth.
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The dataSultan of Streets and Stars
Published Aug 3, 2019 · 6,904 words (26 minutes)
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A hacker with a price on his head returns to Istanbul to retrieve rogue AIs involved in a massacre. Only, the AIs have grown more intelligent (and mystical) than anyone thought possible.
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Between Earth and Exile
Published Jul 22, 2019 · 9,076 words (34 minutes) · 1 view
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As a teenager, Alexa fled an alien-occupied Earth for a scrappy future in space as an exile. Going home was not supposed to be an option, but six years later, she finds herself unable to let go. Now an adult, she hatches a plan to rescue the family she left behind.
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