explain your book in one sentence, no more than three lines. go!

"A former military officer and his friends fight government conspiracies and unravel a mystery about a lost civilization while fighting on Mars."

The work: Nightmare

"The World God Only Knows meets Captain Planet."

"A Memphis high-schooler and a British exchange student fights manifestations of human emotions."

Manifestation Files

edited 13th Aug '11 4:11:39 PM by chihuahua0

"Alternate History Steampunk World War One goes horribly, horribly wrong."

Innocence Lost <— Do I get extra credit for an All Blue Entry?

"Superheroes are made—but they are actually tools of the precursors, so they play chess with international politics to decide the fate of the galaxy."

Knightfall

"The Grim Reaper is framed for murder and treason, and has to convince the gods that he's innocent by doing exactly what he's accused of."

Soul

edited 13th Aug '11 4:27:58 PM by USAF713

"After a hundred years of peaceful civilization, three teenagers must stop depraved scientists from destroying two worlds with lost magitek."

"What happens when two surprisingly similar sides goes to war for the biggest and last time?"

Endless Conflict

"Two children venture out on a mission across varied landscapes seeking a hidden mountain valley in search of answers."

Towards The Valley Of Flowers

Indisputable: The crew of the Earth starship Indisputable make both allies and enemies during their exploration of the galaxy.

Abominations: When a tyrant is slain, what happens to his followers?

(Currently a short story, but I have ambitions for it.)

edited 13th Aug '11 5:12:36 PM by feotakahari

"In a world where wizards can create real humans out of creatures called Manikyns, one man is haunted by the ghost of his most beautiful failed creation."

Tiz, Reoccuring. (A working title. I think it needs improvement)

edited 13th Aug '11 5:21:36 PM by KachinoOkimane

Pillar Of Heaven: A disgraced, bitter ex-war hero hunts down an immortal man across a rapidly balkanizing cyberpunk interstellar empire.

edited 13th Aug '11 5:28:08 PM by Pyroninja42

"A girl with Psychic Powers and her bodyguard work to unravel a conspiracy that demands her death."

Rogue Power

This post was thumped by the Shillelagh of Whackingness

If (when?) that gets published, there will be so much Rule 34 for it, it's not even funny.

Not that that's a bad thing...

edited 13th Aug '11 5:42:26 PM by USAF713

A kid gets superpowers. You are never going to read it.

A priest and a cowboy get stoned a lot while fighting men and demons. Now that I think of it, this summary doesn't really apply.

edited 10th Oct '11 6:03:53 PM by Merlo

the two above this post are the best

The Gangs of Nowhere: An overconfident, unskilled private detective flees Chicago after being nearly assassinated by a coalition of his ex-girlfriends, and he wakes up after a drunken stupor in a Crapsack rural town ruled by four incompetent gangs. Hilarity Ensues.

I like the phrase "coalition of ex-girlfriends." A lot.

A short, sorta-dead emo kid and his idiot comrades must defeat the emperor of ghosts before they all go insane and all matter implodes.

Oh, and for good measure, Hilarity Ensues.

edited 13th Aug '11 6:34:34 PM by Voltech44

I'm going to redo mine slightly.

"A retired soldier and his friends combat government conspiracies, unravel ancient mysteries about lost civilizations, and fight for their homeland on a martian colony."

It acutally sounds better that way, and more accurate. a 'former' soldier means dishonorable discharge

EDIT: I am hoping to hear from d roy soon. I was most eager to here his works put in one sentence.

edited 13th Aug '11 6:43:22 PM by jasonwill2

I don't believe I can actually explain either In The Service or A Numbered Existence in a single sentence.

"An ADP armored trooper pilot must survive rampaging boomers, poor equipment, and his own command structure for about 500 words each chapter." more or less sums up Night Life.

yours, condensed: " A pilot must survive an onslaught of aircraft while his equipment and command structure both fail him."

Only put in the important stuff like that, and see if you can get your other work in there. I could of said my work like this:

"a retired military officer and his friends in the military fight back an invasion, re-establish a special forces team that inspires a nation, fights three conflicting government conspiracies and start to re-discover the secrets of the precursors and thier lost herritage."

See? my last one was MUCH simpler. This one is just full of useless bulk that isn't needed to convey what it is about.

Setting and nature. An armored trooper is power armor; want to make that clear. Fanfic; want to make that clear. Not military; want to make that clear. Very short stories; wanted to make that clear.

I think I did admirably in condensing another four facts in with not many words.

The other stories are respectively 87,721 words/24 chapters and 41,462 words/30 chapters. A Numbered Existence follows a group of characters, hopping between them, and such things aren't necessarily connected and their actions not necessarily related to each other. This prevents easy summaries. In The Service has less of the essential scatterbrainedness but is far longer and hence has more going on, having progessed from more or less law-enforcement actions to full-scale war, from regular humans to AI constructs and cybernetic enhancement, and so on. It's not easy to condense the important threads out. Even if I could, I probably need the back cover of a novel.

edited 13th Aug '11 7:16:15 PM by Night

A new Cain and Abel wage war across a Scavenger World while various New World religious denominations try to end said Scavenger World a second time.

Neither God Nor Man

edited 13th Aug '11 7:20:07 PM by KSPAM

hes still a pilot. bombers are still aircraft. and equipment and command is still equipment and command. if you mean its more like a mech, then just add 'mech' before 'pilot'

edit: im just saying that you could try to explain the other one. thats the best part when people explain crazy complicated plots in the fewest words possible. thats why i made the topic to begin with, that and to hear d roy try it lol <3

edited 13th Aug '11 7:20:44 PM by jasonwill2