Broken Sparkʼs Reviews of On-Line Serializations

I am a great fan of online, serialized, science fiction. Every time you go back to a story, you find yourself falling back into an alternative reality that feels instantly familiar, and then you pick up the old scent of an adventure which you are in the middle of.

But I do make a point of exploring literature in all its traits.

Iʼm currently (January 2025) reading five on-line serialized stories, one chapter per month, as well as writing the Broken Spark story itself. The order here is the order I started reading them, equal to the order in which I discovered them.

sistersofrail Sisters of Rail
Gentle tale of mystical people living simple, idyllic lives, with the spectre of some horror hanging over them. This is my favourite reading at the moment as the whole thing has the texture of suede, especially the feel of the prose.
KonbiniIdol Love of a Konbini Idol
Lesbian romance swirling around Japanese horror culture. Not my comfort zone, but a very interesting read with very distinctive style.
naleensshadow Naleenʼs Shadow
Hard, testosterone-pumped science fiction about a jailbreak with serious secondary politics. Loving this one; a bit lumpy in places but great concepts and flowing action.
thevoid The Void
Project developing a concept TV serial. Massive open world hosting episodic galaxy-wide adventures. To be honest not the best format for consuming science fiction, but very immersive and fabulous world building.
RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms Revenge of the Mutant Algorithms
Incredibly intelligent and thoughtful, shades of Inside Number 9. Written as part of November Write Month 2024, so the stories have been produced swiftly, ostensibly in the space of one day.

Discussion of all the above takes place on Mastodon; my ID there is @broken_spark@cyberplace.social, and the stories are reviewed under the tags shown above; each individual review has a feedback link with it.