Fiction Serials (Where I've been for the past two months)

Greetings everyone! As some of you might’ve noticed, content for the Substack has slowed down a bit. For those of you interested in the next installment of the Star Trek essay—don’t worry. It’s being worked on.

For the end of 2024, I decided to polish up and finish my two latest books. This also coincided with a growing realization that Substack was simply not the best place for my fiction. For a variety of reasons, this platform wasn’t optimized for fiction books and certainly not for long running serials. So I’ve moved The Domes of Calrathia and Gigaheroes over to Royal Road, a site better suited for that sort of content.

This undertaking was a lot larger than I predicted, and the edits were extremely extensive, especially with Gigaheroes. Over the past few months, I’ve gone through about 120,000 words or 450 pages. So currently, The Domes of Calrathia is finished with one chapter with its sequel posted. I’m through the first ten chapters of Gigaheroes, and I hope to have its revision completed by the end of December. For fans of The Last Human (a paid subscriber serial that will remain on this Substack), I will resume work on it shortly. I know it’s been on a bit of a hiatus, but I’m hoping to get right back to work after my first two serials are ready for their Amazon releases.

If there’s huge demand, I’ll port over all the revisions back to Substack, but I do believe Royal Road is the best place for my fiction moving forward. PDFs will be available to my paid subscribers on the Discord Server or upon request. If you’re a paid subscriber and can’t find the link, please email me at foundationempire373@gmail.com, and I’ll get it sorted out.

Anyways, please enjoy!

Banished for the murder of his master, a lone Astronomer has set out to deliver a written history of his School to the ancient city of Calrathia, home of all knowledge. None have attempted to cross the frozen wastes in three centuries. And in the bitter cold, worse things than scavengers haunt the desolate trek.

The Domes of Calrathia is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy mixture set in a post-apocalyptic, pre-historic civilization. The story is for those who desire an alternative to exhausted fantasy tropes and genre conventions.

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Daniel Peterson is a disaffected corporate superhero of City 57—the bombed out remains of old New York.

Seattle Vance is a mercenary with a grudge and is set on a warpath against everyone who has ever wronged him.

Adam Mason is a homeless man teetering on suicide who’s about to get the luckiest (or unluckiest) break in his life.

Only chaos can ensue when these three cross paths.

Gigaheroes is a superhero story set in a post-apocalyptic America now reformed into the dystopian Democratic Union. It deals with societal collapse and struggling with the prospect of a hopeless future. This fast-paced, action heavy narrative is centered around the question of trying to be a good person in an evil world.

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The Last Human is sci-fi story exploring a post-human galaxy hundreds of thousands of years in the future. In this setting, humanity is the progenitor race that was the first to colonize the stars. Most alien species are not “true” aliens. Many are derived from species from Earth, having undergone the process of uplift into sapience or an approximation of it. Humans are largely mythical, viewed as a once an all-powerful race. Some aliens hate humanity for bestowing them sapience. Others worship the ground under their feet. But most of the galaxy wouldn’t recognize one by appearance.

The story follows the recollections of Vas, a human boy who grew up on an insectoid hive world. The narrative is his recounting from how he went from a slave to a galactic warlord.

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