| Crownbreaker |
Author has written 9 stories for Essay, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy. Hi. This is the part where I'm supposed to tell you some stuff about me. Let's think about this for a moment. I don't know you, probably never will, so I'm particularly inclined to divulge a lot of personal info. I'll let you have a little bit. I'm a college student with an interest in mathematics, history, and political science. I'm a Midwesterner, and I rather like it here. The east coast is a dump (too many goddamn hippies), and don't even get me started on the west coast. I like cold weather and can be rendered effectively non-functional by temperatures over 85 degrees. Politically, I'm a die hard believer in Chicago School capitalism. The ideology I fall closest to is classical liberalism (think of it as lite libertarianism). I'm generally against the regulation of individual rights (some issues are more complex); I let you hippies have you drugs, so stop trying to take my guns. Philosophically/religiously, I'm a deistic Protestant and believer in compatibilistic determinism. For those of you who've never heard that term, it means that I don't hold determinism (in the more general philosophical sense, not just religious) to be mutually exclusive with free will. "Conformity and rebellion... both are simple-minded--they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity."-Neal Stephenson "There are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous men."-Robert A. Heinlein "Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that 'violence never solves anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee."-Robert A. Heinlein "Those damn commie bastards hate everything we stand for: freedom, liberty, apple pie... did I say freedom?"-Red Alert 3 Project Status: undergoing revision My fantasy setting's forum: http://www.omniverseone.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=45 | |||||||
1. The Nature of My Game reviewsA demonic crime lord holds court at his rural estate while a pair of guests try to find out more about his organization and operations. Things get complicated in a hurry, and they find out why you're supposed to have some courtesy for the devil.Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,253 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 1-27-10 - Complete2. Ascension » reviewsAn aristocratic mage and world spanning megacorporation form an alliance to battle an oppressive magocratic regime with politics and engineering.Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 8,770 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-1-09 - Published: 12-26-083. Discordia's Theatre » reviewsA heretical cult destroys a military airship, provoking a swift response from both state and church. When the heretics start wielding bizarre weapons and more players are drawn onto the stage, a few detect the hand of outside forces directing the chaos.Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 9 - Words: 38,097 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 5-24-09 - Published: 9-24-084. Arcane Library: Military Codex » reviewsA compilation of contemporary research on the world's military formations and theories, by the order of the Chief Librarian of the Arcane Library. An in-universe reference for the militaries of my science-fantasy setting.Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 9 - Words: 4,154 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-11-09 - Published: 9-15-085. The Veteran reviewsA soldier with an unnatural wound undergoes a potentially ostracizing operation in order to get back to his unit. One shot.Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,209 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-21-08 - Complete6. Archomachy » reviewsThe internal conflicts of the Tyrren Republic spread into a worldwide clash of ideologies, states, religions, and rising technology. Mix of Steampunk and military sci-fi. This story is dead. Its successor story is Gears of DeceptionFiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 13 - Words: 44,973 - Reviews: 34 - Updated: 8-25-08 - Published: 12-7-077. Eisengeist reviewsWhen an Imperium patrolcraft stumbles across a derelict cargo ship, they think all they've found is an empty ghost ship. After the boarding party returns it becomes clear that there is something far more real and dangerous than ghosts. Steampunk in space.Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,223 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 8-12-08 - Complete8. Fall of Ozymandias reviewsThe final duty of a king is to die for his people. The final sacrifice a soldier can make is to die for his country. The Ozymandias makes a final charge into the heart of an enemy fleet. One shot.Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,618 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 3-15-08 - Complete9. True Capitalism reviewsA cursory examination of two areas in which capitalism is criticised: monopolies and colonialism. Writtem because I was sick of the lefties at my school yelling about them.Fiction: Essay - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 703 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-25-07 - Complete