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Exclusive Preview: Swords of the Obsidian Sea
Author: DevynRegueira
Chapters: 2
On an island village condemned to the Stone Age by forces millennia more advanced, a clever fool teaches himself to read.
On the eve of the fool's execution, an apocalyptic storm passes less than a mile from the island's idyllic, tortured shores, unnoticed by all but his children.
It is violent, it ...
Meridian: Tale of Earth and Water
Author: marlowedickens
Chapters: 1
# LitRPG# Anti-Hero Lead# Supernatural# Magic# Martial Arts# GameLit# Gender Bender# Male Lead# Multiple Lead Characters# Reader Interactive# Portal Fantasy / Isekai# Post Apocalyptic# Ruling Class# War and Military# High Fantasy# Mythos# Strategy# Urban Fantasy# Progression# Dystopia# Dungeon# Attractive Lead
This is a LitRPG novel that follows a large ensemble cast of characters who achieve Classes through cultivation and progression of their experience, spells, and abilities. The party includes lightning mages, stone barbarians, celestial paladins, shadow ninjas, chaos clerics, beast summoners, healing...
Scav; A Forever Winter Story {2.0}
Author: Walker Reddington
Chapters: 3
# Anti-Hero Lead# Male Lead# Post Apocalyptic# War and Military# Grimdark# Genetically Engineered# Dystopia# Artificial Intelligence
After being conscripted into the Euruskan Armed Forced, Bokep now has to fight to survive on the eternal war that is The Forever WInter.
Explored Themes:Logical and Illogical Extremes of Industrialized WarfarePlight of Civilians and neutrals in warDegradation of CivilizationIdealism in the DarknessM...
I Must Kill The Gods
Author: PrisonerOfFantasy
Chapters: 10
# Strong Lead# Supernatural# Virtual Reality# Magic# Martial Arts# Male Lead# Portal Fantasy / Isekai# Low Fantasy# High Fantasy# Genetically Engineered# Mythos# Soft Sci-fi# Strategy# Urban Fantasy# Progression# Dystopia# Attractive Lead# Artificial Intelligence
Have you heard of the 'Dark Forest Hypothesis'? It suggests that alien civilizations exist, but they remain silent—ever fearful of malevolent civilizations lurking in the cold, dead void. Salivating for just a sign of life. This apocalyptic nightmare seems to be Earth's reality, where we find oursel...
The House of Marcellinus
Author: Cole.Andrews
Chapters: 13
# Anti-Hero Lead# Female Lead# School Life# Male Lead# Multiple Lead Characters# Dystopia# Hard Sci-fi
Summary
[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]
In a not so distant future, automation has completely replaced human labor. Society has been divided into the ultra-wealthy 'nobles' who hold the reigns of control, and the destitute, unemployable masses.
Markus Marcellinus, a member of th...
Lakwoth Liar
Author: Haloly Jazi
Chapters: 1
# Anti-Hero Lead# Supernatural# Male Lead# Secret Identity# Post Apocalyptic# Low Fantasy# Ruling Class# Reincarnation# War and Military# High Fantasy# Soft Sci-fi# Urban Fantasy# Dystopia
To combat overpopulation, nature became sentient to lasso a circular island from the depths of the Pacific Ocean for people to reside in. As people began to settle there, the island became an established country by the name of Lakwoth. Everything was going swimmingly until Lakwoth people misused its...
ASUA - The Tunnel
Author: Wendy A Macfarland
Chapters: 10
# Female Lead# Strong Lead# Post Apocalyptic# Genetically Engineered# Soft Sci-fi# Dystopia# Attractive Lead# Technologically Engineered
ASUA is the gritty story of a fourteen-year-old 'tunnel' girl who is forced to confront threats of sexual assault and child marriage as she tries to save her kidnapped sisters from surface 'Raiders' and 'the Green Zone' in the not -too-distant future.
The Tunnel - After the collapse of technology, K...
PEREN Voyagers
Author: Kozuzu102
Chapters: 2
# Anti-Hero Lead# Female Lead# Male Lead# Multiple Lead Characters# War and Military# Soft Sci-fi# Space Opera# Progression# Dystopia
Marcus and Marci Briggs, twins born into a family of adventurers and scholars during the height of the PEREN Empire. When their ship was ambushed during an expedition to the outer systems, they were forced into cryosleep in order to survive.
Centuries later, they were rescued and awakened in a drast...
Death Harbor
Author: OzMystic
Chapters: 2
Death Harbor – Plot Overview
Synopsis:
Sam Stone, a broken and cynical private investigator, is hired to find a missing journalist named Rachel Torres. Rachel had been investigating a series of grisly murders in the city’s decaying waterfront district, a place steeped in the stink of fish, rusting s...
Gunsmoke Omelette
Author: Tom Sooshy
Chapters: 1
# Female Lead# Slice of Life# Male Lead# Multiple Lead Characters# Post Apocalyptic# War and Military# Grimdark# Cyberpunk# Soft Sci-fi# Progression# Dystopia# Time Travel# Artificial Intelligence# First Contact
Stroganoff superheroes, villains whose beef tastes like pork and pork pie heroines whose pop references are pi times as hip-hop. Let Me Cook....
The Patriots of New Americana
Author: Mio Maru
Chapters: 2
# LitRPG# Supernatural# Magic# Male Lead# Portal Fantasy / Isekai# War and Military# High Fantasy# Dystopia
In the year 2027, the world is grappling with the devastating effects of the Third World War, in which widespread famine and chaos are rampant. As the United States struggles to retain its status as the dominant world power, the Concur Powers, following a critical defeat of the US Navy at Honolulu, ...
Genomage chronicles: The Lost Convergence
Author: TecEcho
Chapters: 1
# Steampunk# Strong Lead# Magic# Martial Arts# Harem# Male Lead# Ruling Class# High Fantasy# Genetically Engineered# Mythos# Soft Sci-fi# Xianxia# Progression# Dystopia# Artificial Intelligence# Technologically Engineered
In a world where raw magic flows untamed through every living thing, power comes at a steep price. The mages who control this magic find their bodies slowly breaking down, consumed from within by the very energy that grants them their strength. The more power a mage wields, the closer they edge towa...
A Cliche of Plots
Author: Morbet
Chapters: 4
# LitRPG# Anti-Hero Lead# Steampunk# Female Lead# Strong Lead# Supernatural# Magic# Martial Arts# Male Lead# Secret Identity# Multiple Lead Characters# Reader Interactive# Portal Fantasy / Isekai# Reincarnation# High Fantasy# Villainous Lead# Cyberpunk# Urban Fantasy# Xianxia# Wuxia# Progression# Dystopia# Technologically Engineered
The tale of man who has beef with himself for one last time...
Gravity Chain
Author: Shoulkie
Chapters: 1
In a run down world, outsiders have to keep to themselves and survive as everyone else have forsaken them. Their special abilities gives them an advantage feared by everyone else, they have been demoted to something less than humans. Kin has always delt with his hardships in his own creative way, as...
Thought Crime
Author: OzMystic
Chapters: 4
# Anti-Hero Lead# Supernatural# Virtual Reality# Secret Identity# Villainous Lead# Progression# Dystopia# Artificial Intelligence# Technologically Engineered
Jonah thought he had the perfect power: the ability to slip into people's minds, manipulate their thoughts, and control their actions without them ever knowing. For years, he used his gift for personal gain, shaping lives, careers, and relationships to suit his desires, all while believing he was bu...
echoes of a forgotten past
Author: profpdduvall
Chapters: 33
"Echoes of a Forgotten Past" by Phillip Donald Duvall weaves a tale of identity, transformation, and the blurred line between humanity and technology. In a world where the apocalypse has scarred the surface, remnants of what was once vibrant now lie in ruin. Below this desolation, Dr. Gepetto's unde...
Maverick and the Villainous Parliaments
Author: LazyPariah
Chapters: 1
# Anti-Hero Lead# Strong Lead# Martial Arts# Ruling Class# War and Military# Villainous Lead# Progression# Dystopia
[Be eternally allied with one or be the enemy of all?] "Be the enemy of all." [Consequence: Death or Eternal?] "Eternal." [Villain initiation is now finally complete.] Seeing a new scenery beyond the norms and diving deep into the cultivation world, a realm of continuous growth and evolution, is oka...
Red Zone Son
Author: Jinny So
Chapters: 44
Solomon, a mixed Black/Korean teenager, was just seven when America splintered into red and blue zones. Years later, after getting forcibly drafted into a red zone militia, he's driven solely by one goal: protect his little sister, Adah. This compels him to not only endure grueling training in a rac...
Stellara Nova: Tapestry of Stars
Author: MaeveLykit
Chapters: 6
# LitRPG# Female Lead# Virtual Reality# GameLit# Gender Bender# Cyberpunk# Space Opera# Progression# Dystopia# Hard Sci-fi
A desperate choice.
Old friends and new enemies.
And a game that offers a chance to truly find themself.
Myles Vester is many things. A failed son, a college drop out, and introverted to hell. But what about a talented star pilot? A pioneering explorer traversing the edges of known space? And a cu...
Sunshine and Rain - Further musings of a simple man
Author: Tim Margetts
Chapters: 27
This is a collection of my poetry. I already have a collection, called 'Whispers of Albion' on Amazon and when I mentioned this on the forum, people commented interest, I think possibly as its not something usually seen on Royal Road.~So I thought why not.My poetry is varied and touches on whatever ...