#milsf

[global-twilight]

Tek Tan - Cover Art for the Rika’s Marauder’s 

This is a decent military SF Series by M.D. Cooper featuring a cyborg protagonist who becomes a mercenary. Here is the series so far: 

Rika Mechanized (Prequel)

Rika Outcast

Rika Redeemed

Rika Triumphant (Coming in February)

And it looks like there are at least two more volumes coming...

[harpysix]

I'm just trying to think of an accurate description for someone hailed as "a veteran of the Sunless Revolution." Like, are they a pilot? A gunner? A ship captain? What else defines their career? These are semi-useless questions I answer when creating side characters, and suddenly, the side character isn't a side character anymore.

[anthropictales]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy, Command & Conquer (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Zaal'Koris vas Qwib-Qwib, Steven Hackett Additional Tags: Diplomacy, Awkward Alliances, Migrant Fleet, even more awkward requests Series: Part 2 of Outside Context Summary:

After several decades of rebuffed diplomatic and humanitarian outreach to the Migrant Fleet from the Systems Alliance, the Admiralty Board finally deigns to send a representative just to get them to stop leaving messages, and maybe letting an AI eat their more troublesome member. For Admiral Zaal'Koris, however, contact with the Alliance may prove to be the very opportunity his faction has been looking for for generations. Whatever happens, the Migrant Fleet will never be the same.

[anthropictales]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy, Command & Conquer (Video Games) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Nihlus Kryik, Female Shepard (Mass Effect) Additional Tags: Crossover, War, Politics, Outside Context Problem Series: Part 1 of Outside Context Summary:

The Systems Alliance and the Citadel Council have hung in a tense stalemate for decades. But in the past few years, these two nations have begun trying to bridge the gap, through diplomacy and joint operations. When the discovery of a priceless Prothean Military Installation on an Alliance Threshold World, and the ambitions of one rogue SPCTR threaten that delicate peace, that tense diplomatic alliance will be tested. And the mystery of the fall of the Prothean civilization will be answered, as the influence of an ancient doom reaches out.

[zitasaurusrex]

milsf and milfs are not mutually exclusive but you should also probably avoid getting them mixed up.

[cedarlili]

Flash Fiction: Ghillie

I was listening to a song, and suddenly I had an urge to write. The song was Saboton’s Camouflage, and this snippet of flash fiction was what fell out of my head today.

Ghillie

The mud stank. Private Jonah Staedler buried his face in it anyway. Overhead, the deadly whine of bullets snapped past his helmet and made the stink the least of his concerns. He turned his head, slightly, so he could…

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[pir8writer]

"Soldier 10.0" by Tom Tinney. #SciFi Short Story

“Soldier 10.0” by Tom Tinney. #SciFi Short Story

  Soldier 10.0

By

TomTinney

©2018 Tom Tinney/PiR8 Productions (Revised from Flash Fiction “Veteran 10.0”  ©2014) Any resemblance between characters and people living (or undead) is strictly coincidental. Seriously…it’s not about you.

    Two thousand men held ranks and pushed forward into a phalanx of our enemy. The white and gold of our tunics clashing with the black and red of theirs. Behind…

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[stupc]

Book review of Crises And Conflicts, edited by Ian Whates

This review of Crises And Conflicts, edited by Ian Whates, was written in 2017 for the British Science Fiction Association‘s magazine, Vector. NewCon Press, 2016, Paperback, 254pp, £12.99, ISBN 978-1-910935-17-0 This new anthology of 16 short stories, Crises And Conflicts, is being unilaterally deployed by NewCon Press to celebrate their tenth year of publishing. Covering the glorious genres of…

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