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Chronicles from the Nexus
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Chronicles from the Nexus
- These stories set in the Nexus, long after the home world is lost and among the fading echoes of a transhuman civilization . . .
Stories from The Nexus
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About
I was inspired to start writing the Chronicles by my desire to create action-adventure stories like those I reveled in as I grew up. From the tales of Captain Future, Richard Seaton, Kimball Kinnison, Doc Savage, Perry Rhodan, Richard Benson, The Shadow, Conan the Barbarian, The Three Musketeers, Dray Prescott, and many, many more science fiction, adventure, and fantasy stories that inspired my imagination I was (eventually) drawn to the idea of writing my own tales of swashbuckling high adventure in exotic realms. As you might guess, I also got into role playing early on (in fact, I started playing Dungeons and Dragons the year following their first publication) and have spent not inconsiderable effort designing my own variations on rules and world building. So, yes, the Chronicles from the Nexus were inspired by my RPG experiences. While none of the stories are "actual events", that is to say, they are not transcriptions of role playing sessions, the setting and many of the characters originated in either one of my campaigns or in friends' campaigns.
In addition to the roots that the Chronicles from the Nexus have in literature -- and yes, I think that genre fiction is, or can be, literature -- and gaming, much inspiration has been derived from the cinema, such as The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), A Fistful of Dollars (1964), The Scarlett Pimpernel (1983), Star Wars (1977), Blade Runner (1982), The Duellists (1977), The Terminator (1984), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Die Hard (1988), and a slew more.
Wiki pages about the stories
In Progress
- "The Belle of Moon Courts" (a Teal story)
- "Seizing a Pearl of Time" (a Shaper Fe Apisterra story)
Short Stories
- "Death's Harp has One String" (an Angst Gryphon story)
- "Stealing a Seed of the Giving-Tree" (a Kregar the Dimlander story)
Novelettes
- "Drink Deep the Wine of Memory" (a Chance Mett story)
- "Lair of the Feathered Termites" (a Kregar the Dimlander story)
- "The Shaper's Daughter"
- "The Unmodified Man" (a Theseus Blacksail story)
- "Winters' Unexpected Arrival" (a Pelly and Winters short story)
Novellas
- "The Alchemist of Liberty" (a Night Whippoorwill story)
- "Death Rides for Free" (a Night Whippoorwill story)
- "Fortress of Wind and Glass" (an Angst Gryphon story)
- "A Sword in the Spokes" (a Pelly and Winters short story)
- "Up in the Nightgaunts Gang" (a Nightgaunts Gang story)
Novels
- Tactics of Transience (a TreeYllana story)
Stories in the Hopper / Incubator
- "Carbon Golems"
- Disciples of Transience - The sequel to Tactics of Transience
- "An Embrace of Monsters" - A Night Whippoorwill short story
- "Life Certificate: Expired!" - A short story introducing the private-eye Rose
- "Thorns of Dilemma" - What happens to Bernadette and her squad after the events of Tactics of Transience'
- "A Visit from the Death Fairy" - A sequel to "Up in the Nightgaunts Gang"
- ... and more
Characters from the Nexus
- Angst Gryphon
- Kregar the Dimlander
- The Night Whippoorwill
- Pelly (half of duo Pelly and Winters)
- Theseus Blacksail
- TreeYllana Fé Lunnoir
- Trinette Fé Apisterra
- Winters (half of duo Pelly and Winters)
The Intrepids
- Night Whippoorwill, the / Sir Tristan Bryght
- Sir Percival "Chance" Mett
- Lady Patricia "Red" Winterisle
- Sebastian Juste
- Gräfin Margaritte "Gretta" Chantrix
- Richard "Dicky" Wrenwick
- Sir Victor Drakewood
- Teal
The Nightgaunts Gang
Also see Characters from the Chronicles of the Nexus.
Dates with stories in the Chronicles from the Nexus timeline
TE9: 506 --> 525 --> 589 --> 590 --> 750 --> 767 --> 798 --> 804 --> 906 --> 909
Places of the Nexus
- Arbaris
- Bolthole
- Edmee
- Mana (planet)
- Mani Mesa
- Nexus
- Opyl
- Opyl's Eastern Dimlands
- Opyl's Northern Dimlands
- Savage Mesa
- Shadowside Spire
- Spire (city)
- Spire (empyrean)
- Summerwell Park
- Vaggeist
- Vaggeistland
- The Wall / The Maze
Also see
Related Topics
- Category:Chronicle from the Nexus
- Glossary Nexium
- Books from the Nexus
- Category:CftN Article
- List of CftN artcles
