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* ''[http://galaxiescollide.wordpress.com/ The Galactic Series]'' is a [[Space Opera]] short-story series set in a pair of colliding galaxies. Whilst [[Human Aliens|very human]] issues of war, politics and culture arise, humans themselves are oddly absent, barring the occasional mysterious occurrences of time travel and their parting gift of "the human database".
* ''[[Grandmaster of Theft]]'' is an [[Action]] [[Thriller]]/[[Mystery]] which features multiple volumes of story lines and overarching story starring 1st person [[Classy Cat Burglar]] Cassidy Cain.
* ''[[Guns, Swords and Steam]]''
* ''[[Guts and Sass|Guts and Sass: An Anti Epic]]'' deconstructs many popular fantasy tropes, providing both parody and a serious exploration of being [[Trapped in Another World|zapped]] to a [[Magical Land]] with feudal agriculturalist monarchy, semi-domesticated pastoralist, [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Races]], and hunter-gatherers.
* ''[[Hackett]]'' is a serial novel that details the adventures of an interdimensional taskforce that works for (and with) the titular Hackett.
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* ''[[Legion of Nothing]]'' is a web novel about the descendants of [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] superheroes who inherit their grandparents' powers and take on their costumed identities.
* ''[[Lovers and Beloveds]]'' is a story following the young Prince Temmin as he leaves his childhood home for the courtly intrigues of the capital city. It started as the web serial ''[[An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom]]''. The serial drew significant crowdfunding from the readership, and has been edited and published in paperback. It is [[Meilin Miranda]]'s first novel.
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* ''[[Magical Security Taskforce]]'' follows a group of high schoolers drafted into the titular peacekeeping organization. Written by Adam Pulver, also known for his anime/reality show spoofs and various Digimon fics, including the already-recced-on-this-site '' [http://www.firstagent.net/fanfic/connhome.htm The Connection]''.
* ''[http://many-words.com Many Words]'', extremely irregularly-updated, featuring an unfinished fantasy tale and a nearly-finished hard science fiction story of naval war in space.
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* ''[[The Mystery Sphere]]'' - a strange but interesting story about a pirate accused of the theft of a nobleman's dragon.
* ''[[Oktober]]'' is an interesting web novel. It's updated weekly on Fridays, hasn't missed an update yet. Each chapter is told four different times, once from each character's perspective. It follows the adventures of a journalist, a rockstar, a hunter, and an assassin as they drive across the US, and has a feel of an American road novel mixed with House of Leaves.
* ''[[Paladin Academy]]'' - A ''[[Dungeons
* ''[[Patchwork Champions]]'', a [[Superhero]] story, was a webcomic for two and a half years, and continues to this day as one of these.
* ''[[Pay Me, Bug!]]'' - [[The Caper]] [[Recycled in Space|in space]]. "...featuring cunning smugglers, star-spanning [[The Empire|empires]], cheerful amorality, evil [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|cyborg slavers]], and a [[Starfish Alien|hyperintelligent bug]]."
* ''[[The Philosophical Significance of Soda Bubbles]]'' is a web novel which begins as a coming of age story and before [[Deus Ex Machina]]-ing into a science fiction satire on philosophy, revolving around a group of immortals confused by whether they are gods or scientific flukes, searching dysfunctionally for a messiah.
* ''[http://www.playingforkeepsnovel.com Playing For Keeps]'' was also a podcast novel/comic book before getting published.
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* ''Tales of the Big Bad Wolf'' is an example of a Fairy Tale and Fantasy trope mixed together using the Red Riding Hood story as the entryway into a larger number of other stories [http://talesofthebigbadwolf.com here].
* ''[[Tech Infantry]]'', an earlier project involving the author of ''[[Associated Space]]'', a collaborative series of stories by multiple authors set in a future world that combines elements of the ''[[Old World of Darkness]]'' and ''[[Starship Troopers]]''.
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* ''[[3:1 Ratio|Three to One Ratio]]'' by [[Half Demon Cali]], a supernatural genre written-out graphic novel about a ghost who is given six months to survive on Earth while wearing a human skin and living with a [[Tsundere]] martial arts girl.
* ''[[Three Worlds Collide]]'' by Eliezer Yudkowsky, a science-fiction [[First Contact]] story concerning the ethics of deals with aliens of very different morality.
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