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The Descent

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Reads 99,348
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Parts 63
Time 10h 8m

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After Denton foils a terrorist attack at an Intergalactic sporting event, he finds himself racing to save his homeworld from a plot of betrayal and revenge.
 
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When Denton Staxx, a special agent with the Orbital Security Services, discovers the Intergalactic Olympic Games have been targeted by a terrorist attack, he rushes to Earth to try and stop the event before it's too late. But what he discovers on earth is far worse than he imagined, and Denton is quickly pulled into a galaxy-wide conspiracy that takes him from one solar system to another in the search for a mastermind that will stop at nothing to get his revenge on the richest man in the universe -- regardless of the innocent people who die along the way.

[[Wattys' Shortlisted]]
[[1st place, Month Elimination Awards, Sci-Fi Category]]
[[Best Plot Development, Iced Tea Summer Bash Awards]]
[[Best Adventure Scifi Story, The Ooorah's SciFi Awards]]
[[1st place, Rebel Awards, Sci-fi Category]]

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Down Under by AmyMarieZ

|WATTYS 2022 WINNER - HORROR| Shawn, a convicted criminal, never thought she'd see the sun again, let alone call another star system her home. When she's offered an out from her prison sentence, she embarks on a dangerous interstellar expedition along with 18 of Earth's most intelligent criminals. Their task is to set up a base on a supposedly habitable planet and prepare it for colonization. Although the planet has liquid water and a breathable atmosphere, it is believed to host only microbial life. However, upon arriving, Shawn and the rest of the colonists learn that assumption was grossly incorrect. In a brutal attack from rampaging wildlife, everyone but Shawn and four other colonists are killed. The five survivors retreat to the cavernous network beneath the ground seeking safety, but they soon come to a terrible discovery. These caves aren't ordinary caves, and they are no safer down under than they were on the surface. [][][] This was originally my entry for the 2021 Open Novella Contest, and it received an honorable mention! It has now been expanded into a full length novel. I used prompt number 53: "When wildlife starts rampaging, all the humans are forced underground. However, they come to a terrible discovery that being underground is no safer than being on the surface."

Human Untouched: Requiem of the State (Sequel to Human Untouched) by SydCarv

Terra, allied with the State, discovers her parents were executed as Rebels. Hunting whoever betrayed them, she goes to war with the State - and the Rebellion. ***** Terra left the Rebellion. She cut ties and devoted herself to the State, all to gain her freedom. But when she's released from prison, Terra discovers her parents were executed as rebels while she was inside. Someone framed them. Someone who knew her well. Determined to avenge her parents' death, Terra carves a swath through both the Rebellion and the State. She has to contact old friends, avoid the people trying to follow her, and stay one step ahead of her opponents within this conspiracy. The Angel of Death won't rest until she knows the truth... And kills whoever betrayed her. (Sequel to Human Untouched.) [[Word count: 350,000-400,000 words]]

Browser City by marsaumell

| WATTYS 2022 SHORTLIST + AMBYS 2023 SCI-FI WINNER | UNEDITED | Digital, anthropomorphic beings live in our laptops, smartphones, and other devices, but humans aren't aware of their existence despite being their creators. Shannon Wise, search engine in Browser City, has to fight off Pitt and Nekari, malware and spyware that have come to her city hoping to infect it and obtain the User's credentials and sensitive data. She will have to do it with the help of Ajax Eagleye, a recently installed, stern antimalware and adblocker that gets easily pissed off, in order to save her city. A know-it-all search engine. An angry rookie with an ego problem. A clueless User. A foul Hacker. Many innocent, digital lives at stake. All of them pieces in the Developer's chess game. Will Shannon and Ajax be able to defend Browser City, and thus save the Operative System and the sensitive data stored there, without the User's help? 🏍 💻 🏍 💻 🏍 💻 "Tron: Uprising" meets "ReBoot". A digital Science-Fiction & Action story, with a sprinkle of Romance! (Is IT fiction a thing? :D) · DIGITAL CITIES SERIES · BOOK 1 · FEATURED BY the official ambassadors' reading lists: @WATTPADESL "Artificial and Advanced Society" in 2022 @ScienceFiction "Parallel Worlds" in 2022 @StoriesUndiscovered "Into the Abyss" in 2022 @BadassReads "The Daredevils" in 2023 @NA "Can you see further? Science Fiction + Fantasy" in 2023 @StoriesUndiscovered "Tales of Adventure" in 2023 and Featured in Wattpad's home page in "Outer Space Champs" and "Unlock Science Fiction" reading lists in 2023! MATURE due to swearing, violence, and other adult subject matters. Protected by CopyrightIndex.com: CI-381914640

The Fifth Agent by marineh22

"We made you. We can break you." Bentley Waters was never meant to survive. A failed experiment with wings on her back, she's spent years trying to escape her past-avoiding old ghosts and building a wall between herself and the world. But when whispers of her dead teammates' resurrection reach her, and she's forced onto a team for a high-stakes mission, her carefully controlled life begins to spiral. The mission isn't just dangerous-it's personal. As secrets from her past resurface and her new team grows closer, Bentley must decide: will she risk trusting them? Especially him-a mysterious agent who seems to see right through her walls and into the wounds she's spent years hiding. But something bigger is coming, something that threatens to shatter everything she knows. If Bentley doesn't confront her past and learn to trust again, the people she cares about-alive or dead-may pay the price. *Cover: original photo not mine, all credits go to original photographer. . . . Highest: #1 in Agency #17 in Adventure #16 in Mystery #18 in Action

Eagle X, Mission 15: The Singapore Incident by LemuelMcMillan

Mercenary life is rough, especially for the Eagle X team. Wanted by galactic governments and clandestine organizations, eking out a living seems harder and harder every standard year. When they are hired to protect a VIP from the shadows it seems as if they've finally caught a break. Then the proverbial shit hits the fan. Pirates, clones, cannibals, mad robots, and deep space starship battles, it will take a special breed of hero to protect the leader of the human race. Join Spider, Raven, and Renegade as they do what they do best: save the universe. 1st Place Winner of The Freedom Awards(2019) Science Fiction Category Highest Score: #2 in Robots (12.26.18), #1 Spacecraft

Freight by mikewolsfeld

[Wattys 2021 Shortlist] Adam became an interstellar freight pilot to chase adventure in the stars, an obsession of his since his father left to do the same. Instead, all he's found in four years is routine and boredom. When one of those routine jobs ends up crash-landing him and his artificially intelligent friend and colleague, MARI, on a hidden planet, he thinks he's finally found the excitement he's always desired. Instead, he quickly finds that this adventure may be more than he bargained for. 🥇 First place in the Red Carpet Awards 2021 Sci-fi genre

THE END OF WAR (Watty Award Winner) by BenSobieck

A secret program in the United States seeks to replace human militaries with artificial intelligence-driven machines, but the machines aren't so willing to play along. *** Picture a world where humans no longer fight wars. No more families missing loved ones. No more veterans with lifelong mental and physical scars. No more conscription. For the super-secret End of War Project inside the United States government, such a reality is already here. The project models out how artificial intelligence can overcome dangerous and morally sensitive war scenarios with algorithms and automation. The centerpieces are "autonomous combat machines," or ACMs, that look like humans but function like supercomputers. After a string of brilliant successes in the field of combat, the End of War Project is preparing to reveal itself to the public, but something unusual stands in the way. Against their programming, the ACMs start exhibiting all-too-human signs of apprehension, guilt and compassion as they're pushed to perform ever more extreme tasks. The human leaders of the End of War Project race to find who "hacked" the ACMs, but what they find is even more startling--and revealing--than they could ever imagine. ***2019 Watty Award Winner - Science Fiction***

Shadows Peak |✔ by SpratleyMac

"I don't trust your people." "I'm not asking you to trust them. I'm asking you to trust me." ◇Highest Rank: #2 in Journey, #8 in StrongFemaleLead, #11 in Adventure, #24 in Dystopian◇ Sydney Donovan. An 18 year old soldier in training. From Galdon, Eastern Region. Trouble in her homeland forces her to leave home and venture west. Can she survive long enough to clear her name and return home? Or will she die in the strange land she's been driven into? Casey Graham. A 20 year old hunter. From LeHorn, Western Region. Hungry to avenge the death of a loved one, he follows the only lead he has. But, it requires him to join forces with the enemy. Will he be able to put his reservations down long enough to find justice? Or will he ultimately fail? Neither was expecting the turn of events that would lead them across the treacherous mountains that separated their homes. Shadows Peak. When life, death, and justice hang in the balance, will they be able to survive the battles ahead? Read "Shadows Peak" to find out. *1st Place in Action/Adventure (The Albina Awards) *1st Place in General Fiction (The Tattoo Awards) *1st Place in Action/Adventure (The Rose Awards 2017) *1st Place in Action/Adventure (World of Champions Awards 2018) *2nd Place in General Fiction (The Polaroid Awards Winter 2017/2018) First published: Oct. 2, 2017 Cover made by me.

Moebius 2157 | ONC2019 Short List [Complete] by taivaan_sininen

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Down Under cover

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Eagle X, Mission 15: The Singapore Incident cover

THE END OF WAR (Watty Award Winner) cover

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Down Under

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