RoyalRoad Online Novels to Read

Reading is one of the greatest pleasures in life. Just ask Tianna Gregory.

Just a list of recommended web novels in the science fiction and fantasy genres to read at my leisure:

Ongoing...

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/29605/a-demons-tail

Completed

Read a bit at a time or all of it!

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/7707/agent-of-the-realm

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/2850/beyond

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/629/until-death-old-version

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/7578/demons-journey

On hiatus...

Sometimes authors disappear. These stories are still good but I'm not sure if they'll ever be completed.

Interactive Fiction for Fun

Stealing Wikipedia's definition, Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives, either in the form of interactive narratives or interactive narrations.

IF happens to be a gem of a genre for someone like me who loved to read choose-your-own-adventure novels when I was a kid. To have books with destinies decided not just by the author but by the reader was astounding to me. Besides, I frequently look at my own life this way. What if I chose to go to the park instead of just staying in that day? What if I decided to kiss the girl on the date instead of not? What if I decided to cook curry instead of fish? The most trivial choices can lead to momentous results.

Perhaps because of this, I was intrigued when I discovered Twine -- an open source tool for creating interactive fiction. Check it out: http://twinery.org/

Here are a few examples of works that people in this community have created. I am not saying they're the best stories but they can be interesting to read.


https://tayruh.github.io/monster

http://slimedaughter.com/games/twine/wtwla/ 
Strange but beautiful I hear (with music).

http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/competition2013/web/solarium/solarium.html#1e

https://philome.la/winningcake/a-trial/play/index.html

http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/competition2018/Bogeyman/bogeyman.html

For more games, you can check out what other people are playing:
https://intfiction.org/c/playing

Literature: Books on Utopia

Utopia?

This Perfect Day
https://www.amazon.com/This-Perfect-Day-Ira-Levin/dp/160598129X

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139390.This_Perfect_Day

Considered one of the great dystopian novels―alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World―Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers even forty years after publication.

The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called “The Family.“ The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they can never realize their potential as human beings, but will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. even the basic facts of nature are subject to the UniComp's will―men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night.

With a vision as frightening as any in the history of the science fiction genre, This Perfect Day is one of Ira Levin`s most haunting novels.