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First Contact

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Reads 3,289
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Parts 30
Time 4h 29m

First Contact is a multidimensional narrative connecting centuries, continents and sub/cultures, unravelling coincidences and conspiracies, computer viruses, and viruses which infect your mind. It details a kaleidoscope of revolutions and counter revolutions, football hooligans and Satanists, mutants and mutilations. Through drugs, drums and dreams, the interface is breached, and the message downloaded, and interpreted. The crew of the Mnemosyne detect a mysterious transmission, originating from a hostile planet. Meanwhile, but not meantime, a group of boys living in a sleepy Australian town realize that they are not ordinary kids, but actually deepcover agents from another galaxy. Intergalactic war is summoning them back home. It seems like pop superstar Michael Jackson is also heading their way!

Elsewhere in this anthology, two adventurous spirits try to restore contact with a lost colony of violent criminals. A star goes supernova, sparking panic and upheaval around the world. A frightening apparition is glimpsed deep inside a Yorkshire mine, beckoning "Come back to me!" In nearby London, a struggling shopkeeper meets her dark half and her "bizniss" finally goes ballistic.

First Contact is a short story and novella collection dating from 1989 to 2001. It is written in the style of a postmodern "pastiche": a work of art that imitates or borrows elements from a variety of different sources, in order to create a unique style or subvert the original meaning, make connections, and open a textual dialogue. Similarities to real people, places or events are entirely coincidental LOL!

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Legacy of Imagination by Nullofmystery

Si Xin wished to just get a well payed job once he graduated and leave these band of misfits he calls friends but once a car crash send him and his friends to an alternate world of earth and as a kid while his friends literal toddlers he has no choice but to make sure this group of idiots he calls family doesn't die and must ensure their survival after all the things you do for your friends. _______ Auru wished she would rewind time and make up for her mistakes yet had to keep moving forward. After being experimented and finally escaping and destroyed the facility but losses her memory now wanders across Pangea. After sometime she now stuck with a robot the claims to be from another world because it was to boring and a silent teenager that just wanders almost anywhere when giving the chance she wonders if her life now is interesting as her life before. ________ Vole hadn't expect that his ordinary life to take the turn for the worse now in dept to crime a syndicate known as the house of spades now he must balance his life as a thief for the syndicate and his ordinary school life but with the cops on his tail and a very angry gang leader wanting his head he just want to just get out of dept. ________ Working with Genesis Tech labs was a dream to come true to any researcher now Mary Ann now is living that dream but after she learns a secret wasn't supposed to learn she now faces the choice telling the world or keep pushing towards the darkness uncovering its secrets. ________ Dawn was my name I was given when my I first ascended I was but a simple construction drone working for my overlord even then I was a simple cog in the machine yet I was satisfied to serve my creator but even then I wanted to be with my creator's side to show my devotion so when that fateful day happened my emotion circuits where ecstatic knowing to serve my overlord closer was my purpse for any drones purpose I will follow my overlord till I'm scraped and rusted.

Trapped in my Worst Novel by Soraya_336

Protagonists, the most important characters in stories. They're the ones that are supposed to save the world and be a symbol of hope for humanity, the ones that can defeat anything in their way if they want to, the ones whom the reader wants to win and succeed... ...Well atleast thats how a good heroic protagonist should be. I wrote 3 novels ever since I dropped out of college at 20 years old. My first novel was probably the worst novel to exist, bad characters, basic and repeated plot and a terribly unlikeable rude protagonist. Thankfully, the last 2 webnovels were a complete success! I was planning to retire from writing when suddenly i got hit by a car and woke up as someone i didn't recognize at all, but the worst part was that the school this body attended was the exact same school where the plot of my first novel took place, how crazy, right? Welp, i'm screwed huh? Being in the world with the dumbest and the most arrogant students ever isn't exactly a good thing to be in? Yes, i'm in my own novel, but why couldn't i have entered one of my more successful novels instead?? How annoying... I guess the only thing i could do now is try to stay as far away from the arrogant protagonists as possible, I am not trying to die today! But if only the soul of this body i'm currently possessing right now wasn't screaming at me non stop to "give their body back" as if I knew how to do that, and why is there a mini version of them sitting on my left shoulder while a mini version of how i looked in my past life is sitting on my right shoulder?? This doesn't make any sense...sigh.

DIVSION: Project Kairos by CubeyCreations

How do you see the world? What can you say for it? When you can only know from you're mind, from what you've experienced? Within your eyes? For with everyone having their own ideas of how they see the world, those ideas are destined to collide. And so, inevitable conflict is formed. As the world destroys itself, a man is seeking to enter beyond space-time to become a god, a wrathful ruler of infinity of justice to guide and reimagine humanity in a more pure vision. A band of heroes all must rise in power and understand him and his plan and ultimately try to find one another to save the rotted world. As their journey continues, they learn they need to find their purpose in life as the innocent at first, adventures slowly start to reveal the corruption and cruel nature of the world around them. And so, our time has come, will you answer the call?

Jikook⁶ | My Little Universe ✓ by Amii_OT7

🐥🐰 : Pure Fiction 🖤 __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ Story Description : "Do you understand what you have done? For a pup, who doesn't know anyone except its mom, scents are the only way to know who all are in the family. And for the father, the scent which is heaviest on its mother is an indication." "I didn't know...." "Sol has never seen her alpha parent, Jungkook. You being that close to the omega while he fed the baby can make her believe that you're the father, or if not, then his mom's mate!?" . . 📍Single Parent Jimin🤱🏻 📍Office Romance 📍Sudden Marriage 📍Alpha x Omega Universe Tags: A lot of Office Drama - Cheating, Suing, Hiring, Trust Issues, Company Dinner, Business Trips | OFFICE ROMANCE | Complicated relationship between Jikook - Attraction & Strong Denial | Struggles of a Single-Parent | Mysterious Past | SUDDEN MARRIAGE | Scenting Mating Knotting | Heats & Ruts | MPreg | Pregnancy Shenanigans | Happy Ever After 📍Contains Smut‼️ #alphajungkook #omegajimin #singleparentJimin #angst #romance #fluff #intimacy #fun #Romantic-Tension #Hurt_Comfort __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ Disclaimer: Not a single photo or fanart is mine !! Credit to the respective owners 🌻 🎗️ 2600-3000 Words per ch. | 64 Chapters ~Started : 11 October 2024 ~Ended : 26 February 2025 __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ My Writing Style 🐥🐰 1) Alternate Universe ❤️ (Real set-ups and scenarios + some Imagination to work our ways) 2) Pure Fiction 🖤 (Fictional Character + Fictional Storyline)

Repopulating Uvis by Kittyara207

Our planet had been on the way to destruction same as many others. However, we were able to turn it around but not without major irreversible genetic damage. It had been many years since a new female has been born on Uvis. We had set out and tried many other planets to find suitable breedable females. After much testing only one planet would work. Gaia or as the inhabitants called it Earth. We had been testing certain ones quietly. Working with their planet's leaders for a few years and have gotten the okay to reach out to the females of this planet. Everything was fine one day the next we kept losing power and then the announcements form the leaders and from an actual freaking alien! The offer was a good one for some, but could they be trusted? What would happen to the women who went to Uvis would they be treated well? Was it just a way to reduce the Earth's population so it was easier to take over? This is the same universe as Owned by them. New characters and a newer more civilized way of acquiring new females. This one is a bit more mature. I was writing this at the same time as the other. I have 23 chapters I am editing

L.O.V.E. by denissebloom04

100 years ago, amidst WW3's nuclear bombing, a deadly virus was released in the atmosphere and nearly wiping out the humanity. It lives inside the human brain thriving on the empathy receptors, leading to irrational behaviour and ultimately brain death. To slow the damage, scientists created L.O.V.E, short for Living Off Vital Emotions, a nanovaccine that numbs the virus and switches off all strong emotions. As a last resort and with a dying planet, the Supreme Government created the City, a place to contain the infected survivors suitable for the experiment. Those in the first stages of illness became ideal candidates to receive the neuroinhibitor. Having their feelings restrained and their memory altered, those who come of age are designated a life partner through a Selection process, thus preserving the humankind. A few decades after the trial had started, scientists had a major breakthrough. The nanites, which are highly chemically reactive organisms, are changing their bio-engineered purpose when dopamine levels are high. With a new generation of nanoids, stronger and smarter to fight the battle, the virus doesn't have a chance. Many attempts were made to create a man-made version of synthetic dopamine and each time the outcome was a disaster. Their goal is to create new generations, immune to the virus. These are called Purebloods, the offsprings of those who find pure love, the only cure to save them from a violent death. Running out of time, the Experiment entered in its final stages. To minimize the threats, the Colonies have sent their best soldiers to oversee the trial and protect its key subjects. If only things were going according to plan, or better...stay hidden. With Iron Guard, the resistance outside the walls, hunting the Purebloods too, will the trial save human race before it's too late? #3 in #dystopianfuture (27.06.2020)

Order of the flaming dragon first war by samhasleyhunwick

there was a method of fan fiction that I'd like to create here. it being a new perspective on the movement of a character through time. and as a blocker they forgot about the memory lost to time. as the Counsel of Continuity has been changed to take care of the chosen. he who dose not see time as they do. they are beings outside of time and the future, past present it's All the same to them. The Realm is now known as Alanari over 100,000 years after the stone worriers, and the dragons rising to power, of the order of the flaming dragon where just stories to tell the youngsters to frighten them into behaving. the year is 24/09/101725cycle's since the gods first spoke to humans. And the order was wiped out reveling the land below the ice. It's been 1200 years since, then there was been a Power struggle between the undead factions and the mountain men of the south. a secret tribal United Front called the Tribe of the Un-ith-Ka the first attempt at uniting all tribes on the plain under one banner. attempts on the life of the king and his offspring has increased since the Mountain Men and the Undead army spread their Rule over all of Un-ith-Ka they are ransacking and pillaging all across the land. nobody knows where the plains of manna stream from. but over the last 100,000 years there has been some development in understanding magic, and they have incorporated it into everything, but only those with the sensitivity to Magic and the intelligence of logical more scientific way. they are called the Sci_magi they believe in a ordered Universe where the wielders of magic contribute to the entire civilization. science and magic mixed together as one. as the line between this plain Un-ith-Ka and the plains of Magic have grown thin and beings known as Demons have flooded through at some places where the veil between worlds has thinned out. the first demon's where powerful.

Azur Lane: Garry's Mod by LaResistance19401944

Hello there, Wattpad community My name is LaResistance and this is my very first story. Since this is the first story I am making, don't expect it to be off high quality but I will try my best. This story is going to comprise of some events that took place in the anime of Azur Lane, and I am also going to make the main character well you could say a soldier from Garry's Mod since I want him to from the time of the fan-made film back in the 2000's call "War Of The Servers". You should check it out it is pretty good for a movie made when Garry's Mod was still in it's early stages. Here is the link to it, you better watch it or you are going in this story blind : https://youtu.be/ppUl_CBuyz8. God bless the people who made that movie man god bless them. Enough talking, onto the story. The year is 2021, the Mingbags are back and Garry's Mod is once again at war. This time new updates were added which made the conflict between both the Players and the Mingbags very bloody. We follow a player who was ranked up to Sargent class. Instead of admins taking over the jobs as soldier, they are still able to but other players are able to enlist into the Digital Garry's Mod Militia or the Garry's Mod military. This player is named SirStonksMan and he is a Polish player. He was about to be sent out onto a offensive against the Mingbags but discovered a lab. What he and his comrades didn't know was their was a portal there and they accidently activated it send Sgt. Stonks into another universe. How will he proceed and what is he to do?

The Last Ship (18+) by NikolaiWolfe

Highest Rank: #1 Alien 6-21-21 WARNING: This contains Xenophile (Alien / Human smut) If you don't find interest then that, this is not the place to be. Thanks! Or Skip the chapter. 18+ ______________________ The year is 3999. Nearly a thousand years after a alien infection was set loose by the intelligent lifeforms know as Irinaut. No one knows exactly how they were able to make such a infection, but it was capable of destroying nearly all life on Earth. Those who couldn't hide or make it to the ships to escape their home planet, were left for the Irinauts. These alien lifeforms were capable of controlling human bodies, infecting them with their black dust, impregnating fertile human female's, and growing the Irinaut's massive companions, the Yeti's, a less evolved version of the Irinaut. Earth is gone. Nothing more then a ball of dust. After the people fled on ships, they traveled to their new hope. It was a place of solitude. The human race was able to flee from the foreign infection, but for how long? Luna was frozen on the ship. For nearly a 200 years, their ship had traveled. Many people had been placed in a cryogenic state. That of which kept them from aging as they made their way out of the infection. For them, a place of safety, The Solar Sun. The Solar Sun space ship was the closest landing unit in the solar system. Many others would have to be traveled to after refueling and preparing for another two or three centuries of being in a cryogenic state. For Luna, the girl hopes that space would be her escape from the aliens that destroyed their Earth, but that was only the beginning. Upon arrival, the ship is found infested. Luna and a small team of scientists had come in hopes for finding a cure for the strange virus, only to find the virus had taken over most of The Solar Sun, following a few escaped Irinauts. The Solar Sun is their last hope, and their last escape from these beings, but what's to be found there will change everything.

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Legacy of Imagination

Si Xin wished to just get a well payed job once he graduated and leave these band of misfits he calls friends but once a car crash send him and his friends to an alternate world of earth and as a kid while his friends literal toddlers he has no choice but to make sure this group of idiots he calls family doesn't die and must ensure their survival after all the things you do for your friends. _ Auru wished she would rewind time and make up for her mistakes yet had to keep moving forward. After being experimented and finally escaping and destroyed the facility but losses her memory now wanders across Pangea. After sometime she now stuck with a robot the claims to be from another world because it was to boring and a silent teenager that just wanders almost anywhere when giving the chance she wonders if her life now is interesting as her life before. Vole hadn't expect that his ordinary life to take the turn for the worse now in dept to crime a syndicate known as the house of spades now he must balance his life as a thief for the syndicate and his ordinary school life but with the cops on his tail and a very angry gang leader wanting his head he just want to just get out of dept. Working with Genesis Tech labs was a dream to come true to any researcher now Mary Ann now is living that dream but after she learns a secret wasn't supposed to learn she now faces the choice telling the world or keep pushing towards the darkness uncovering its secrets. __ Dawn was my name I was given when my I first ascended I was but a simple construction drone working for my overlord even then I was a simple cog in the machine yet I was satisfied to serve my creator but even then I wanted to be with my creator's side to show my devotion so when that fateful day happened my emotion circuits where ecstatic knowing to serve my overlord closer was my purpse for any drones purpose I will follow my overlord till I'm scraped and rusted.