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* ''[[The Antithesis]]'' revolves around the conflicts of a uniquely-perceived Heaven and Hell, narrated by the main character, Alezair Czynri, who is a member of the "Jury", a sect of non-Celestials who live in Purgatory and enforce "The Code".
* ''[[Arcana Magi|Arcana]] [http://www.fictionaut.com/groups/arcana-magi-universe Magi]'' is a young adult fantasy universe written by H-M Brown. It features a [[Web Serial Novel]] of the main series about a teenage girl, who received a mystical item from one of [[The Four Gods]], and was captured and brainwashed by an [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Evil Company]] to serve their needs. He also wrote ''[[Arcana Magi Zero]]'', an [[Alternate Universe]] [[Short Story]] Trilogy about the beginnings of two teenaged girls, who received their magical items from [[The Four Gods]], and try to understand their place in the world.
* ''[[Associated Space]]'', an often hilarious science fiction story written by [http://albigensia.livejournal.com/ a friend]{{Dead link}} of [[Tropers/Martin The Mess|a troper]].
* ''[[Becoming a Better Writer]]'', a group of books written by an amateur New Zealand author and serialised on his website. So far involves Demon Hunting and Werewolf Law.
* Though the results aren't nearly long enough to be considered "novels", ''[[Bionicle]]'' includes web serials as part of their canon. They supplement the books and comics in that they can focus on and flesh out side characters - [[Villain Episode|including the villains]] - or continue to tell adventures of those [[Merchandise-Driven|whose toys are no longer on the market]].
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* ''[[The Descendants]]'' is a [[Superhero]] story formatted in such a way that it's a comic book without pictures.
* ''[[Deucalion Chronicles]]'' is a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] [[Space Opera]], with time travelers, mages, androids, werewolves and more all rubbing elbows and often as not beating the crap out of one another.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100518204029/http://www.pc-productionz.net/dimensionheroes Dimension Heroes]'', a web novel series skewed towards a younger demographic featuring five teens who discover futuristic battle suits and are subsequently thrust into an adventure in which they must save their world from colliding with a parallel dimension.
* Similarly, ''[[The Dionaea House]]'', which was told in segments appearing on different websites, every October for three years.
* ''[[Domina]]'' is a series about the titular city, which has evolved a unique culture based around [[Bio Augmentation]]. Also, it is written by [[Tropers/Discar|a troper]].
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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]]''.
* ''[[Ted's Caving Page]]'' was presented as a spelunker's series of journal entries revolving around a mysterious cave and a creature inside (the actual cave being "Freeway Cave," as the author originally discusses [https://web.archive.org/web/20050502091828/http://www.caves.org/soapbox/printthread.php?t=646 here] and is reposted [http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=762310&page=2 here]. The original story is intentionally left unfinished, leaving the reader to draw his or her own conclusions. The story was later used for Thomas Lera's short story [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828043638/http://duks.s3.amazonaws.com/Thefearofdarkness.pdf "The Fear of Darkness"], a backdated hoax that attempts to explain all of the supernatural elements of Ted's story with an added chapter.
* ''[[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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** "Ayla and the Tests" is longer than six of the seven Harry Potter novels. And is largely responsible for [[The Rashomon]] effect, since it basically [[Retcon|retconned or explained]] several events where Ayla appeared to be 'out of character' or missing from the action.
* ''[[Worm]]'' is a web novel about a girl with superpowers that let her control bugs.
* Fanfic author Copperbadge publishes original work [https://web.archive.org/web/20090819050102/http://community.livejournal.com/theoriginalsam
* [[Podiobooks]] is a treasure trove for this kind of novel.
* The [[Chakona Space]] setting started out as a web serial novel called "Forest Tales".
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