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Battle Trucker

Battle Trucker

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-fi LitRPG Female Lead Strong Lead Magic Post Apocalyptic Ruling Class Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Soft Sci-fi Dystopia Progression
1,473 Followers
110 Pages
109,364 Views
16 Chapters
Saturday, February 12, 2022 12:45:23 AM

Jill MacLeod might be just a long haul trucker with a dirty mouth and back pain, but with Bertha the big rig under her she always makes her deliveries. When Mana, monsters, and an RPG style levelling system comes to Earth it's the end of the world as anyone knows it: the apocalypse is here. On her journey it's just Jill, her Soulbound truck, and any survivor she can find against the universe. Mutated animals, aliens, dragons, droid armies… it doesn’t matter. Nothing’s going to stop Jill from making her way home.

Blare the Horns of Valhalla and let slip the Rigs of War!

[A story in the apocalyptic LitRPG genre]

[Warning tags: Profanity, Gore]

The Future That Never Was — Guns are back in cereal boxes!

The Future That Never Was — Guns are back in cereal boxes!

Original Action Comedy Sci-fi Short Story Virtual Reality Cyberpunk Martial Arts Gender Bender Reader Interactive Slice of Life Male Lead Female Lead Strong Lead Multiple Lead Characters Non-Human Lead Secret Identity Anti-Hero Lead Space Opera Post Apocalyptic War and Military Villainous Lead Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Hard Sci-fi Soft Sci-fi Dystopia Progression Artificial Intelligence Attractive Lead
345 Followers
571 Pages
63,950 Views
106 Chapters
Monday, August 15, 2022 12:02:00 PM

WELCOME TO THE RETROFUTURE!

The Future That Never Was is an extended universe where Mars was terraformed before the Beatles sang Penny Lane, the Soviets colonized the asteroid belt and pirates plundered the rings of Saturn. In this alternate space age, humankind couldn't dream of a brighter future. Alas, the minute Earth turned into a nuclear wasteland, shadows already conspired from the heart of the Moon to the mysterious Planet Nine—and maybe beyond...


The book series includes numerous R-rated titles. All of them will be uploaded on Royal Road. Check the Index or the list below for the main stories.


🐈  KITTY KITTY - START READING

Join sassy space cat Lee and his Desert Eagle-toting, soda-swigging human partner, Ali, in a future stuck in the late 80s/early 90s. Board the dynamic duo’s ship, the mythical Kitty, as they bounty-hunt their way through a dystopian solar system—so lock and load, and shout Cowabunga! because it’s crime-fightin’ time! 


🪐  PACHINKO BLUES - Fall 2022 - LEARN MORE

Amid the chaos of the Rings Civil War, a disgraced pilot called Miles finds itself tangled in a vast vendetta involving a Lunar corporation, android mercenaries and data-cartels. From Saturn’s Plastic Fields to the fringes of Kuiper, Miles’s violent redemption is an 80s-esthetic space western filled with tears, blood and... ducks?


Other stories related to the first arc of The Future That Never Was:

• RADIO FREAK - Standalone biopunk short story featuring Ali Koviràn, the Data Maiden and Bill Murray

• STELLAR PATRIOTS - Special episodes with Braun Kamirov, linking KITTY KITTY to the upcoming DATA dilogy and CYBER MACHO

• DATA ONE & DATA ZERO - 2023

• CYBER MACHO - TBA


Do you want to support our work or simply read in better condition? Visit our amazon shop and Patreon!

Lever Action

Lever Action

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Female Lead Steampunk Post Apocalyptic Technologically Engineered Progression
2,029 Followers
387 Pages
503,493 Views
70 Chapters
Wednesday, September 8, 2021 8:25:48 PM

Charlie Norwood, a goblin-exterminating bounty hunter working in the frontier desert, finds herself embroiled in conspiracy when she stumbles across some gnomish warmechs chasing down an elven prince.

A Fantasy Western.

[Participant in the Royal Road Writathon Challenge] 

The Power of Ten Book Four: Dynamo

The Power of Ten Book Four: Dynamo

Fan Fiction Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-fi Martial Arts Female Lead Secret Identity Magic GameLit High Fantasy Super Heroes Technologically Engineered
1,017 Followers
2,303 Pages
1,053,735 Views
311 Chapters
Sunday, August 14, 2022 6:00:00 PM

Discord Link at: TPoT link!    Always up if I'm online.

Getting carved off a soul is traumatic. Getting snared by an extradimensional entity for unknown reasons is worse. Waking up in a new world that is suspiciously familiar to your favorite reading material as a kid is downright crazy, but there's been some big changes to canon...

Soul-Shard Vier wakes up in a Marvel Universe with no idea of what to do in the grand scheme... but it's a super-hero universe, and it's friendly to EVERYTHING you might try to do.

Time to not buy into comic book universe power stasis and start climbing the scales, and if you get to exploit some canon that's still relevant along the way, all the better, right?

---A Marvel Comic universe (not Cinematic!) style fanfiction, with some major differences.

---As a comic book universe, power-ups happen with great speed. Leveling meets Bestowed Great Power for Great Responsibility!

---It's a comic book universe, so the scale goes Way Up, and anything goes.

Credit to Jack of Hearts for the cover!

Updated Daily. The Power of Ten series has updated daily since 11/2019!

Ebook: The original Power of Ten: The First Day, Part One! The First Day

And Part Two! Part Two of The First Day!

Overkill

Overkill

Fan Fiction Action Adventure Sci-fi Female Lead Space Opera Super Heroes Technologically Engineered Soft Sci-fi Artificial Intelligence
966 Followers
232 Pages
134,585 Views
35 Chapters
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 12:17:39 PM

Taylor survived being Khepri and she isn’t happy about it. Swearing that she would find a way to get back to those that left her for dead, she begins to make her way across the desert world of Tatooine in search of allies and just maybe, a new purpose.

[A Star Wars / Worm crossover fanfic]

MECHROMANCER: A Robot Necromancer LitRPG

MECHROMANCER: A Robot Necromancer LitRPG

Original Action Adventure Sci-fi LitRPG Strong Lead Dungeon Villainous Lead Technologically Engineered First Contact Artificial Intelligence
3,416 Followers
170 Pages
366,170 Views
39 Chapters
Saturday, July 2, 2022 4:20:12 AM

UPDATES MWF 

\\AI615 BEGINNING REPORT \\CONTACT MADE WITH LOCAL CIVILIZATION POSSESSING TECHNOLOGY OUTSIDE OF KNOWN UNDERSTANDING

\\PLANETARY LOCALS CLAIMED TO POSSESS LEVELS AND QUANTIFIABLE STATISTICS

\\ON INITIAL EXAMINATION, LOCAL ADVANCEMENT APPEARED TO MATCH A LATE IRON AGE TECHNOLOGICAL LEVEL \\RECONNAISSANCE SCANNING AND INTELLIGENCE GATHERING REPORTED ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR

\\2.61 SECONDS AGO, LOCAL SAPIENTS INITIATED COMBAT WITH AI615, AI616 AND GROUND CREW

\\AI615 REQUESTING IMMEDIATE—

Error. End of message not received.

Mechanical Officer 1, designation OFF01, was terminated. The colonization mission failed.
OFF01 has been brought back to life through the magic of the system, and it’s directives have been overwritten. Now OFF01 has a new directive: protect one Tobias Agrippa at any cost.

Romantically Apocalyptic Webcomic

Romantically Apocalyptic Webcomic

Original Action Adventure Comedy Sci-fi Virtual Reality Cyberpunk Male Lead Multiple Lead Characters Grimdark Super Heroes Post Apocalyptic Time Travel Technologically Engineered Dystopia Artificial Intelligence
692 Followers
376 Pages
94,838 Views
171 Chapters
Monday, August 15, 2022 3:54:50 AM

Charles Snippy finds himself lost and alone at the end of the world. He makes a wish for a friend and meets Zee Captain, an eccentric lunatic luminary, who drags him on an adventure through the eldritch, deadly, questionable and limitless post-apocalyptic world of tomorrow, a place where Goodness makes the rules and everything has purpose and passion.

~A post-apocalyptic, dark comedy webcomic that I've been working on since 2005 by myself at first and then with friends from all around the world.

Discord: https://discord.gg/ngawayz

Sexy Sect Babes

Sexy Sect Babes

Original Action Adventure Harem Male Lead Wuxia Xianxia Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered First Contact
4,768 Followers
299 Pages
308,448 Views
22 Chapters
Saturday, August 6, 2022 10:20:15 AM

“One in a billion.”

Jack kept repeating the mantra in his head.

“One in a billion.”

That was the number the Omni-Corps liked to cite whenever someone stepped onto one trans-mat pad and then simply… never stepped off the other.

“Safer than a car,” he repeated as he slogged through the snow, his mining overalls doing at least a passable job of keeping out the cold as he brushed aside a tree branch. “Safer than a plane. Or a starship. Safest form of transport in the Star League.”

He slammed his fist into a nearby tree, exo-empowered strength shattering it into little more than scattered bark and kindling.

“Yeah, well I never heard of a car ride stranding some prick in another dimension!” He roared, his voice echoing through the seemingly endless forest around him.

Then he kept marching. He’d seen the fire off in the distance. And given all the snow around, he sincerely doubted it was natural. Which left the unnatural.

Which meant people.

He hoped.

Because even if the trans-mat had screwed up, he doubted it had dumped him too far off the central finite curve. The fact that the air was breathable and that he could recognize the trees around him as oak told him that much.

And if the dimension he was in had trees native to Earth, chances are it would have animals too. Of which humans would hopefully be no exception.

“Because I’ll be damned if I spend the rest of my days talking to goddamn squirrels.”

No, if there were humans on this mudball, he was going to find them. One way or another.

Knights Apocalyptica: LitRPG, Power Armor, Academy

Knights Apocalyptica: LitRPG, Power Armor, Academy

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-fi LitRPG Portal Fantasy / Isekai School Life Male Lead Magic High Fantasy Mythos Post Apocalyptic War and Military Technologically Engineered Progression Artificial Intelligence
1,103 Followers
162 Pages
51,990 Views
23 Chapters
Monday, August 15, 2022 1:31:57 AM

The Earth met its end, bathed in holy fire. The rifts spill monsters into our world. The Kingdom of Cindrus is the last bastion of humanity; the last vestiges of a broken people clinging to life deep underground.

But not all hope is lost. Erec, like all humans, has been blessed by the goddess. From a line of disgraced nobility, he seeks to reclaim his family’s honor and join the prestigious academy–the institution that trains the next generation of Knights. Formidable warriors that blend their Blessing and advanced Armor to reconquer the wasteland of a world from the horrors that spew forth from rifts.



This is a fantasy/post-apocalyptic portal litrpg, and I hope you enjoy. Will try to update whenever possible!

Long War

Long War

Original Action Adventure Drama Sci-fi Virtual Reality Cyberpunk Portal Fantasy / Isekai Male Lead Multiple Lead Characters Secret Identity Strategy Space Opera Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Hard Sci-fi Soft Sci-fi Artificial Intelligence
544 Followers
792 Pages
91,536 Views
51 Chapters
Saturday, August 21, 2021 4:03:20 PM

Christopher Hall's life was utterly uneventful - until one day he suddenly found himself in the far future. One in which Mankind spread among the stars... and is fighting a centuries long war against its own nature.

Now something claiming to be an angel has given him a mission. If he fails, disaster will befall Mankind. If he succeeds, he can get his old life back. Unfortunately, telling Christopher what exactly he is supposed to do wasn't a part of the plan.

Join him as he figures out figure out how to survive in a universe where Mankind branched out into dozens of religions, ideologies and biologies, all at war with each other. Universe as familiar as it is foreign - and as dangerous as it is vast.

[Updated every friday/saturday, depending on circumstances]

Transcripts

Transcripts

Original Drama Psychological Sci-fi Portal Fantasy / Isekai Slice of Life Female Lead Strong Lead Multiple Lead Characters Non-Human Lead Space Opera Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered First Contact Soft Sci-fi Dystopia Progression
986 Followers
964 Pages
253,472 Views
94 Chapters
Sunday, July 31, 2022 3:31:14 PM

Dr Uru'Nav Xant, Department Head of Research, has been detailing his interviews with the newly discovered 'Creator level' intelligent species 'Human'. The Subject of his study, Jasmine, displays many unique and interesting quirks, the most intriguing of which is the incredibly strong 'frequency' she is able to produce with the help of an implanted alien translator. Together the pair navigate their way through cultural misunderstandings, corporate politics, animal companionship and uncover the mysterious circumstances of the human's abduction.

Combining memorable characters, exquisite world-building and an exhilarating pace, Transcripts is an emotional read that will have you ready to take on the universe!

Transcripts was previously posted on Reddit and Patreon!

Grand Design

Grand Design

Original Action Adventure Sci-fi Female Lead Strong Lead Space Opera Post Apocalyptic Technologically Engineered Artificial Intelligence
1,303 Followers
698 Pages
447,047 Views
47 Chapters
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 5:06:42 PM

Humanity once ruled space, building an empire that stretched across hundreds of stars.  Now Earth is a cold cinder in the void, its colonies and ships annihilated in an instant.  For five thousand years the surviving races have huddled in the dying light of those few stations which avoided total destruction, eking out their existence in the shadow of the long-dead humans who built their homes.  When a piece of that lost legacy resurfaces, the few who still remember humanity have one last opportunity to find the truth and avenge the fallen.

 

Cover by Harry Rowland - https://www.instagram.com/rowl_art_/

The Cosmic Interloper

The Cosmic Interloper

Original Adventure Fantasy Psychological Sci-fi Portal Fantasy / Isekai Female Lead Strong Lead Non-Human Lead Secret Identity Magic Strategy Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Hard Sci-fi Artificial Intelligence
1,706 Followers
219 Pages
181,608 Views
25 Chapters
Friday, May 29, 2020 2:02:15 PM

Synopsis:

A cyborg transhuman escapes her corporate indenture and through unfathomably unlikely circumstances, she ends up in a fantasy world of full of unique magic, angry people with sharp implements, and the whole flavor-spectrum of divine entities. Hilarity ensues.

Features:

- No blue boxes or cultivation, this is not a LitRPG nor about martial arts

- Hard-ish Sci-Fi meets hard-ish magic  

- Generally trying to keep this "rational"

Rationale:

My primary goal with The Cosmic Interloper is to write something that I myself would enjoy reading. Of course, that’s not the only motivation, but I think it’s the most important one for me to keep in mind, especially as the author. In fact, this whole story came about because after consuming oodles of fiction, I found myself craving a very specific type of story which I couldn’t find many examples of. Then I asked myself, “why not write it myself?” and here we are.

Disclaimer:

In general, while I’m not writing a comedy, I do intend for this story to be funny and a bit wacky or absurd. That said though, I am using this story as a vehicle to explore some potentially dark topics including (but not limited to) slavery, speciesism/racism, and existential questions of self, consciousness, and identity. Still, I’m going to leave the “traumatizing content” tags off, because I don’t feel that what I’ve written so far (or plan on writing) exceeds the threshold that would be necessary for me to tag it thusly.

Also, [insert your favorite boilerplate “views expressed” disclaimer here]. I shouldn’t need to say this, but the main character can be wrong on occasion (gasp!) and the way she views the world is not the objective truth (if such a thing even exists).

In Dying Starlight: A Cyborg Sci-Fi Adventure

In Dying Starlight: A Cyborg Sci-Fi Adventure

Original Action Adventure Romance Sci-fi Male Lead Strong Lead Non-Human Lead Space Opera Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Soft Sci-fi Artificial Intelligence
410 Followers
775 Pages
118,755 Views
127 Chapters
Saturday, August 13, 2022 12:14:10 AM

A rogue cyborg. A talking badger.

A bounty job that goes incredibly wrong.


Aaron is perfectly content to chase bounties in his run-down little space ship, avoid human interaction at all cost, and lay low from the cyborg planet that created him. But when he and Bat—his half-robotic badger companion (who talks just a little too much)—chase their largest bounty ever, they run head-first into not only some dangerous criminals, but other cyborgs much stronger than them, and worst of all, a handful of humans who aren’t going anywhere.


What you can expect from In Dying Starlight:

- Heaps of fast-paced adventure and odd planets

- A stubborn MC in over his head and trying to survive

- A talking, half-robot badger who likes fixing space ships

- Allllll the found family vibes

- An atrocious amount of sarcasm and snark

- A tiny bit of romance a ways into the story


Chapters between 1k-3k words, updating Monday/Wednesday/Friday.


[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge - April 2022]

The Last Human

The Last Human

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-fi Cyberpunk Portal Fantasy / Isekai Male Lead Strong Lead Multiple Lead Characters Non-Human Lead Anti-Hero Lead Strategy Low Fantasy Urban Fantasy Space Opera Mythos Post Apocalyptic Ruling Class Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered First Contact Soft Sci-fi Dystopia Progression
2,175 Followers
1,537 Pages
559,486 Views
143 Chapters
Thursday, August 11, 2022 6:28:32 PM

ALL HUMANKIND died thousands of years ago...

…but the xenos still worship them as GODS.

Today, hundreds of alien civilizations thrive in the gods’ lost cities and fallen megastructures. One Empire has learned to harness the remains of humanity's forgotten technology to reconnect the distant worlds... and dominate them.

Eolh is an old, jaded, avian thief who lives in the dark underbelly of a conquered city. When the Empire first opened the gate between worlds, they stormed his home, killed his gang, and burned everything he held dear.

But that was a long time ago.

Now, the resistance is dead. No one dreams of fighting back—for the Empire wields the weapons of the gods: warships that fly, robotic constructs that hunt, and rare mysteries scavenged from the tombs of the gods. Eolh lives a half-life, thieving, running jobs, and selling his services as a freelance listener for the last gangs of Lowtown. He trusts no one, and only looks out for himself.

When an unusual heist takes a deadly turn, Eolh must bargain with an overzealous android who carries an impossible secret—one that will shake the foundations of the universe.

There is one last hope for salvation. For his people, or maybe just for himself…

Read this series if you love Dune, Star Wars, or stories about prophecies and long-forgotten technology.

Take a journey across far-flung worlds filled with alien cultures and impossible technology. This epic Space Opera mixes elements of science fiction and fantasy, and features a cast of underdog characters who find untold strength as they awaken the ancient wonders buried by time.

All this was foretold... One day, a human god will return.

Now a Published Novel!

Buy a Copy Here or keep reading on RoyalRoad :)

The Weaveborn Saga [SciFi, LitRPG]

The Weaveborn Saga [SciFi, LitRPG]

Original Action Adventure Sci-fi LitRPG Virtual Reality Male Lead GameLit Space Opera Technologically Engineered Progression
731 Followers
460 Pages
102,240 Views
33 Chapters
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 7:44:27 PM

Cian is a broke, freshly graduated engineering student working as a janitor when he gets the opportunity to play a new VR MMO. Touted by fans as "More Real than Reality," it has taken the world by storm and in-game credits are even traded on real world currency markets. It's a potential path to real world riches, or financial ruin. But Cian soon realizes this game is more than it seems. A series of events leads him to question the nature of the game and his own reality. What is the true nature of the Weave? Who are the Weaveborn? And why do the game masters want him dead?

ShipCore

ShipCore

Original Action Adventure Psychological Sci-fi Cyberpunk Reincarnation Female Lead Strategy Space Opera Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Soft Sci-fi Progression Artificial Intelligence
1,526 Followers
75 Pages
63,604 Views
9 Chapters
Saturday, April 10, 2021 7:11:50 AM

Waking up alone in a floating wreck, Alex is forced to rely on an artificial voice in her head while she scrambles to put the pieces together.

Not currently updating. I decided to leave this up for those who liked what little there is available.

The Number

The Number

Original Drama Horror Psychological Sci-fi Cyberpunk Strong Lead Strategy Grimdark Technologically Engineered Hard Sci-fi Dystopia Progression Artificial Intelligence
721 Followers
202 Pages
143,549 Views
32 Chapters
Saturday, December 4, 2021 7:51:52 PM

There were two things I knew instantly when I began to exist. The Number was 1922916.12. And I had to make the Number go up.

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

Nine-to-Five Villainy

Nine-to-Five Villainy

Original Action Adventure Male Lead Female Lead Multiple Lead Characters Secret Identity Super Heroes Villainous Lead Technologically Engineered Soft Sci-fi
949 Followers
167 Pages
56,975 Views
16 Chapters
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 7:00:00 PM

Once upon a time, a man that flew through the skies as easily as any bird changed everything.

Decades have passed since then, yet life remains depressingly normal for most. For Timothy Lewis and Amanda Collins, there's parties, high-school, family trouble, high-school, awkward crushes, high school, and, of course, their rising careers as supervillains. 

Perfectly normal stuff.

Magnus

Magnus

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-fi LitRPG Portal Fantasy / Isekai Male Lead Strong Lead Magic Anti-Hero Lead Grimdark Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Soft Sci-fi
1,898 Followers
156 Pages
188,087 Views
24 Chapters
Tuesday, January 4, 2022 8:14:13 PM

Updates daily at 23:06 UTC.

2/1/2021 NOTE! This trilogy is being published by Aethon Books starting with book one on 5/1/2021. All books have been removed from RoyalRoad. This story was posted on RR in its entirety before being removed.

Magnus Cromwell kills for a living.

He’s organized, professional, efficient. Like a machine. But when his family’s life is on the line? That’s something else. That calls for the kind of warm-blooded vengeance that scorches earth and summons tungsten rods from space, leaves a whole lot of melted flesh, and no one to tell the tale.

It should've been a blue milk run. As by-the-book as it gets. With his sister Nina out safe and the opposition decimated by hypersonic gunfire, MC wondered where they got the guts to even try. Then something hits him. Lays him out cold, and leaves him waking up to a fantasyland with nothing but his armor and a half-written note to guide him. It's a strange place where even stranger predators eye him for their next meal. Where his life’s on a timer, and where the darkest horrors haunt his dreams, painting visions of death.

There's no right day to mess with Magnus Cromwell. But the universe sure managed to pick the absolute worst one.

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- MC is stone-cold, strong(OP), and gets even stronger, but he'll still face his fair share of challenges, both internal and external.

- LitRPG-lite. No stats and an unconventional system. Expect abilities and progressions, but there will only ever be a handful of them.

- Science Fiction and Fantasy collide, with a touch of mystery, Lovecraft, and body horror.

- Professionally painted art scenes!

- This series is finished.

A Huge thank you to RoyalRoader MikeWe for the banner, and to NoDragons for his help editing the synopsis. Cover and scene art by the talented John Molinero

Discord: https://discord.gg/s6e5rTj

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

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