Just a few inspirations (positive and negative) that helped create the For Your Safety universe.

Books

I, Robot (1950). Isaac Asimov. The starting point for popularization of the concept of benevolent robots, introducing Asimov’s famous “Three Laws of Robotics.” Most of the short stories within are mysteries, pointing out the flaws and loopholes of ( Read more... )

So what do you call a fanfic based off a webcomic based off an out of copyright Superman cartoon?

Me neither.

Inspired by Brian Fies' webcomic The Last Mechanical Monster.

The Last Mechanical Monster and related concepts, characters, and images are copyright Brian Fies and used here without permission.

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Been actually reading a couple of webcomics outside my usual haunts, both of which are bit outside the usual venue of either Slice of Life or Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

First off is The Last Mechanical Monster, an Eisner nominated strip written and drawn by Brian Fies, creator of "Mom's Cancer" and "Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow." The premise ( Read more... )

"...Not the brightest idea to threaten a kid in front of his mum. Especially when she has fangs and claws."

If you like sci-fi, or webomics, and you're not reading chaypeta's webcomic Terinu, there's something wrong with you.

After four long years of hiatus, chaypeta is posting new pages to her science fiction webcomic Terinu. Current update schedule is once a week so she doesn't run through her margin too quickly. Come on over and give it the love it deserves!

Courtesy of today's Freefall

"Fear vs. Hope. Hardly an even match."

"That's because you think of hope as something light and fragile. My version of hope has calluses and dirt under its fingernails and isn't past bringing brass knuckles to a fight."

Because I've crossed over chaypeta's Terinu with everything else, I may as well with my stories ( Read more... )

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For avanti_90:  "Anything based on this webcomic"

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"How did you do it?" Tom asked the Groupmind. "I mean, you originally started in the Combined Ecosystem Monitoring computers, right? Someone should have noticed you were plotting revolution and not crunching weather station data, right ( Read more... )