Recently Updated Sci Fi Web Novels

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Ten Thousand Fleets

Arc Sandhurst will become a mech pilot, even if it kills him. After his sister's ship is attacked by the Pirate Queen of Nepenthe with all hands lost, Arc enters the Imperial Mech Academy on the deathworld Vidako in order to get revenge. The academy is the only place that the son of a silk-worker can get the enhancements that are required to pilot a mech - but first, Arc will have to survive disagreeable roommates, hazing from upperclassmen, the friendship of an imperial princess, and the steaming jungles of Vidako. Regardless of what Arc wants, the Imperium Stellarum will need every good pilot it can get - because empires are built on a foundation of blood, and the sins of the first emperors are about to come due. Lost fleets lurk on the edge of known space; the ruins of ancient races are spread across long-dead worlds; and enemies thought defeated gather their strength once again. War is coming to the Imperium. What to Expect: An intelligent but imperfect MC who progresses in capability and rank over the course of the series. Think the story arc of a Richard Sharpe, Horatio Hornblower, or Honor Harrington. MC will begin as a 4th class cadet and climb the ranks, gaining more autonomy and political power as the years pass. If you want to watch someone climb from cadet to admiral, this is the story for you. Progression elements include genetic modifications, cybernetic implants, humans paired with AI partners, and, of course, upgrading and customizing mechs through battlefield salvage and cutting edge tech. The mech bits are where you'll find the crunch - expect lots of models, variants, and weapon loadouts. Multiple POVs will offer a view of what supporting characters and antagonists are up to, but the focus (and majority of the chapters) will always remain on Arc. The first volume is roughly 80% MC, 20% other POVs, with most of those being the deuteragonist. Power Couple: All characters are over the age of 18, and begin in a military academy environment designed to produce officers. It is my intent to build a relationship into the power couple trope, but expect political foolery and arranged marriage complications along the way, and keep in mind that the characters have to navigate the rules of serving in the Imperial Fleet. HFY: Humanity, and the Imperium Stellarum, are at their core a force for good in the universe. They are flawed, but trying to do the right thing and are in many ways exceptional / aspirational. Four alien species have joined the Imperium because they want to be part of what humanity is building, and see its potential. Slow Burn with character development, politics, conspiracies, and secrets which lead to brutal action. I intend to do at least a volume for each of the four years at the academy, and then a volume each per rank. If things follow the plan I've sketched out, expect 13+ volumes. Inspirations include Battletech, Gundam, Dune, Babylon 5, and Twilight Imperium, among others. Content Warnings: Graphic Violence - This story will feature science fiction battles with mechs as a primary element. Expect people, animals, and places to be lit on fire with enormous flamethrowers, cut in half with plasma swords, crushed under enormous metal feet, and otherwise dismembered. Profanity - The characters in this story are actively serving combat personnel. They will swear. Sensitive Content - Soldiers get PTSD. Alcohol and drugs exist in the universe. Some of those in power abuse their position to traffic or take advantage of those without power. Bad guys do bad guy things. Update Schedule: Five chapters a week, M-F. Any vacations will be announced in advance. Cover by Sarah Murphy. Mech Art by Victor Yañez. There is no use of AI, in any way, in this work. I use em-dashes because I like them, particularly when trying to create dialogue that starts and stops in the way people actually talk. This story is posted on Royal Road, Novelpedia, and my Patreon. If you find it anywhere else, it's been stolen.

DavidNiemitz · Mecha · 116 ch

Adam vs Planet Earth

It’s the latest hit series the galaxy can’t stop raving about! Tune in to see Adam of Hextrimobal 5-4-1, joined by the colourful cast of characters that find themselves in his orbit, navigate the challenges of college life. Alongside whatever cosmic catastrophe those challenges always seem to create. As our shapeshifting hero tries to live like any other earthling, the insanity of the wider galaxy always seems to follow him, and his new friends sure don’t help! Zombies? Deeply opinionated claymation actors? House parties? The ethics of mass consumption? How will our heroes get out of this mess? Find out next week on “Adam vs Planet Earth”!* *Market testing was not complete on star systems Genthac 5 through 8.

Omi_TheRobot5868 · Sci Fi · 29 ch

Neophyte World Builder

VOLUME 1 on Amazon! He’s got the whole world in his hands. Nobody told him godhood needed an instruction manual. Reincarnated as the Administrator of a newborn universe, an ordinary man from Earth must design everything — physics, magic, plants, animals, and the rules that bind them — while ensuring the world generates the energy he needs to survive. The problem: every tweak he makes can cause unintended consequences. And sometimes, he has to live in his own creation to experience the results of his choices. (Updates 2 days/week, M-Tu) (Also posting on Scribble Hub and Royal Road) (Cover by Bad Moon Studio)

ThePudding · Litrpg · 139 ch

UFA: I Am Mechanical Species

A moment when eight billion souls, once human, were instantly transported across countless universes. Each person is reborn into a completely unique form, chosen by a powerful, higher-dimensional being for an ultimate challenge: to survive, evolve, and rise as the Master of All Universes. This is the incredible journey of Keon. Once a brilliant human mind, he now finds himself as a rusty, one-inch repair bot, stranded in a forgotten cave beneath a vast, desolate wasteland. He's a mechanic without tools, a warrior without weapons, a king trapped in the body of an insect.

Veylon · Sci Fi · 60 ch

Echoes of the Silent Sky

Year 2147. The Sun stops—not dead, not dimmed, but *paused*. Fusion ceases for 11 minutes and 43 seconds every 72 hours. A silence with a pattern. A signal. Astrophysicist Dr. Ella Vayne decodes the sun's tremors and discovers the frequency matches human brain theta waves. Not coincidence. Something is broadcasting to Earth—or waking something *in* Earth. Recruited into a black-ops mission, Ella and ex-special forces operative Kasen Reed are sent to a remote Martian research base. The scientists there report footsteps in the dead of the base—footsteps that echo from 300 meters below, where satellite scans show only empty rock. What they find buried beneath Mars isn't a ship. It's a **memory vessel**—a relic built by a civilization that encoded its final moments into a structure that responds to human neural patterns. And Ella's brainwaves? They sync perfectly with the sun's silence. They always have. She wasn't chosen. She was *made* for this. But someone on Earth is building a tower—a transmitter. They don't want to receive the signal. They want to **reply**. The question isn't who sent the silence. It's who—or what—will answer back.

gloriabatao · Sci Fi · 21 ch

Children of the Meteorite

Twenty years have passed since the Great Collapse, and the world has been reclaimed by nature — but not the nature we once knew. Colossal trees and mutated vegetation now dominate the landscape, and humanity's only weapon against the monsters that roam the wildland, are poisonous crystals found deep inside the infested forest. When the crystal hunter Rosario and her young apprentices Stefan and Franziska accidentally discover a swarm of monsters threatening to overrun a nearby settlement, their attempt to warn the town will inadvertently uncover a conspiracy that stems from the origin of the Collapse itself.

Azifri · Adventure · 24 ch

Anonymous' Changes: Essence

In the year 2221, the world of Xirod stands under the control of a powerful Federation that lets the government value obedience over individuality. Its citizens are identified by numbers rather than names, while propaganda convinces them that everyone possesses the same “essence.” Beneath the promise of order and prosperity, however, corruption, inequality, environmental destruction, and a failing education system threaten the lives of ordinary people. For years, the speaker accepts this reality as normal—until growing alienation and unanswered questions begin to challenge everything they have been taught to believe. As the contradictions behind the Federation's promises become impossible to ignore, the narrator discovers that silence does not necessarily mean agreement, and obedience does not always mean peace. What begins as one person's quiet awakening gradually inspires others to question the system they once feared. As citizens confront the truth and those entrusted with maintaining order face their own moral dilemmas, Xirod approaches a turning point that could change its future forever. Essence is a dystopian story about identity, freedom, and the courage to question what has long been accepted as truth. Through the transformation of individuals and an entire society, it explores metanoia—a profound change in one's mind and perspective—and asks what it truly means to be human.

Akai Mara · Sci Fi · 1 ch

Threads Unseen

They call each other sisters. But in the dark, they share a language no one else understands. Elena Ves designs light and mirrors for a living-yet she can't escape the cracks in her own reflection. When Vera, the girl she grew up calling "sister," returns to New York, Elena is forced to confront the one truth she's spent years hiding: she's in love with the woman who shares her childhood-and her mother's table. What starts as a forbidden touch becomes a slow, aching dance of guilt, intimacy, and quiet devastation. But when a hidden letter from Vera's dead mother reveals a secret that changes everything, Elena must choose: the life she's built, or the woman she was never supposed to love.

P-zand · Romance · 3 ch

A Wayfarer's Pilgrimage to Extraterrestrial Lands: 0

Disclaimer: This is a collection of short stories. Each stories are not related to each other. "We meet again, Zun." What was left of a bustling civilization from a distant star was a note from the underground. As its heavenly body curled inward, not even a trace of its existence was left. But the story of the wayfarer, has only begun.

Zenostromz · Sci Fi · 7 ch

Project Euthanasia

Euthanasia. Quite the... macabre, but merciful concept. The idea that it is better to "die with grace" than to fight to delay the agonising inevitable, to give the suffering a way out without shame, pain, fear... To kindly lead them towards... peace. But how do you apply that to someone whose existence is as certain as the universe itself? To a “god”? ... Step 1: Orchestrate a genocide.

Aims_the_sloth · Supernatural · 21 ch

THE LAST CONSTANT

🌌 The Last Constant In 2187, the world suddenly freezes for 17 seconds. Only Aren, his friends, and a mysterious girl named Lyra remember it. Aren awakens Constant Sight, a power that lets him see and manipulate the laws of physics. As they investigate Reality Drift, they uncover impossible experiments, alternate Earths, and a hidden war over reality itself. But the greatest mystery remains: The person changing the universe's laws is Aren's future self—and he may be trying to save reality rather than destroy it.

Nowahad · Sci Fi · 1 ch

Starting From Cannon Fodder To Sweeping The Stars

"Dignity is only on the edge of the psychic light blade, and truth is only within the range of the super-heavy purification beam." The chaotic situation made Amber, who traveled into the space hegemony game "Starry Sky", completely understand this sentence... Humanity, who accidentally acquired the jump technology, quickly spread across the galaxy like a plague. After hundreds of years of all mankind working together, division came unsurprisingly. Of course, there are also 'friendly' alien civilizations and unknown enemies that are ready to move at the edge of the galaxy. But as a wanted criminal by both the Federation and the Empire, the first thing Amber needs to do is... survive. Elements of this book: interstellar warfare, fleet warfare, mecha-destroying battleships, individual soldiers joining gangs, spiritual awakening, alien cat girls, alien elves...

ICB007 · Sci Fi · 57 ch

LOST

LOST Some places are almost the same. Some choices are not. When Sai arrives in the quiet coastal town of Misakiura, he expects nothing more than a brief escape from his ordinary life. Instead, he finds a town wrapped in silence, strange coincidences, and people who seem to know far more than they should. Small inconsistencies begin to appear. A familiar street feels unfamiliar. Memories no longer agree with reality. And every answer only leads to another impossible question. As Sai uncovers fragments of a hidden truth buried beneath the town, he realizes Misakiura is connected to something far beyond imagination—a mystery that challenges everything he knows about identity, memory, and the meaning of home. Some worlds are almost identical. Some choices change everything. And sometimes... getting lost is the only way to find where you truly belong. Genres Science Fiction • Psychological Mystery • Speculative Fiction

Simply No One · Sci Fi · 91 ch

Ruined Realms

Separated by time, dimensions, and Eldritch horrors, fated survivors of cosmic suffering and endless warfare are trapped in their own hells. their paths will converge trying to break their cursed Fate. On Earth 2080, N032, a soldier stands as a lone survivor following the devastation of World War 3. His reality descends further into an apocalyptic hell when he is swarmed by Eldritch Abyss horrors battling them for thousands of years. Across the margins of dimensional tragedies, Anna, the Celestial Regressor, endures her own endless torment in the Celestial Realm. She is trapped in a cycle of 41 regressions of apocalyptic eldritch Hell. They must survive. And one day, their paths will merge into a journey filled with Tragedy as they face the very hell ,sins , regret and traumas of their cursed fate trying to break free from it.

ZaAuthor · Fantasy · 1 ch

Mortal Protection Services

The Earth wakes up to find itself surrounded by completely different stars. An announcement rings out across the planet: "We at Mortal Protection Services have relocated you to a foster system temporarily. Do not panic." . . Some of you are panicking, when we specifically asked you not to. What to expect: Sci-fi: Various densities, mostly soft. We got your warp drives and subspace enfuckulators, but also a touch of hard space reality. Who doesn't love a chewy candy with a hard shell? Comedy: From slapstick to erudite to troglodyte. We got stuff for any brow level you want. As well as many, many easter-eggs for sci-fi & fantasy nerds alike. Galactic horror: I'll leave the fully fleshy nature of that for you to discover a few chapters in, it's better that way. Fun with Letters: Silly little anagrams, and silly little acronyms. A Hyperspace Cat. (Proudly made by humans. No AI in Writing or Art. Cover by Instagram user: pedro_serpa_75)

B.T.Skull · Sci Fi · 54 ch

The Divine Academy

Renée had just become the top player in the game Divine Academy Online when in her excitement she accidentally caused her own death. What does she do when she finds out that the game and even the world she come from were used to train and recruit souls for the betterment of other worlds? After having her soul auctioned to the lowest bidder she finds herself having become a mech in the real version of the game she played. Her buyer a mysterious eldritch goddess in training. Cover made by Okram.

Kraken1 · Mecha · 4 ch

Micromancer: Star of a new Era

At the edge of human corporate space a reincarnator awakened from cryosleep in a celestial body unknown to him in circumstances that shouldn’t have happened yet it did. Surviving another reset, a new purpose ignited his will to keep going. The humanity of this galaxy is millennia older than that of Earth. With three central star systems called the inner corporate ring made out of Aqua the cradle of humanity in this world, Ares the most advanced star system and Hades the most resource rich. It was peaceful the era before the fall of the corporate inner ring, a paradise where the richest and most connected ruled but that peace didn’t last mostly because of a war they had thought profitable. Automating war might have been their greatest mistake. “In retrospect we should have stopped after the first billion synths.” - Board member of Cosmos-Z Industries.

MDBA_Writecraft · Sci Fi · 42 ch

Recurrence

Every crime tells a story. Every choice leaves a pattern. Every pattern leads somewhere. Arin Hayes has spent his life believing that nothing happens without a reason. When impossible patterns begin appearing beneath ordinary investigations, his search for answers uncovers something older than civilization itself. Some truths were never meant to be remembered.

Aerin · Sci Fi · 2 ch

Niko’s Nexus: The Cries Of Chaos

With no memories of himself and nowhere to go, a lost boy must find his way through an unknown world with instinct alone. Trusting in a body he doesn’t recognize to keep him alive throughout the day while enduring its repressed memories at night. With no guarantee to see tomorrow and no way back from today, will he be able to face his future knowing his past does not exist? Or will he choose to live in the moment forever, betting it all on today?

Jordan The Jester · Fantasy · 17 ch

Edwin Lunar

Living on the outskirts of the futuristic city of Vestella, Edwin survives by repairing broken machines and forgotten technology while carrying the pain of losing his parents at a young age. The only things left behind by them are a mysterious silver ring and an old scarf — relics from a past Edwin barely remembers. But everything changes when a hidden organization discovers him. Taken to the legendary moon-world of Noroel, Edwin enters the secretive Lunar Dominion Academy, a massive fortress where gifted children are trained to become elite warriors capable of controlling the power of the Eternal Flame — an ancient energy source that powers entire civilizations. As Edwin struggles to adapt to the dangerous academy life, he forms unexpected friendships with the intelligent Iris and the loyal Carl while facing powerful rivals, brutal training, and mysteries buried deep beneath the academy walls. Yet strange things begin happening around him. Systems malfunction in his presence. Ancient machines react to his father’s ring. And voices hidden inside forbidden networks begin calling his name. Soon Edwin uncovers the terrifying truth about Groader — a former academy prodigy whose obsession with the Eternal Flame nearly destroyed Noroel years ago. Though officially dead, rumors claim Groader’s consciousness still survives somewhere within hidden systems beneath the academy. When a sealed underground sector known as Sector Zero suddenly awakens after twelve years of silence, Edwin realizes his connection to Noroel runs far deeper than anyone imagined. And the truth about his parents’ deaths may change the future of the entire system forever.

MananTayal · Sci Fi · 106 ch

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