Alpha Centauri 2

Community => Planet Tales => Topic started by: Mart on March 29, 2015, 12:56:46 AM

Title: Largest SMACX stories
Post by: Mart on March 29, 2015, 12:56:46 AM

What are the largest SMACX stories, that you know of? I do not think here about many short fanfiction stories, but those much larger ones.

- Michael Ely's books. I read them and liked them, though at places they were not exactly what I imagined when playing the game.
- Spartan Chronicles. I only started to read them, and from its first chapters, as multi-author effort, having multiple plots, it looks like an excellent story.

Any other? I have seen on Apoly, BAC (Beyond Alpha Centauri), another cooperative effort, looks like a larger work.
I remember Melian was setting up a larger cooperative effort, but it probably never actually started.

Title: Re: Largest SMACX stories
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 16, 2015, 01:30:14 PM

Joe by Alinestra Covelia - it's posted over at 'poly, and rightly, I think, considered a classic.

Title: Re: Largest SMACX stories
Post by: DrazharLn on January 26, 2021, 04:35:44 PM

Joe doesn't seem to be accessible anywhere any more. Do you have a copy?

Title: Re: Largest SMACX stories
Post by: DrazharLn on January 26, 2021, 04:42:54 PM

Nevermind, here's a working link: https://apolyton.net/forum/other-games/alpha-centauri/ac-stories/14156-joe

Title: Re: Largest SMACX stories
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 26, 2021, 04:56:31 PM

That's the posting I was thinking of, yes.

Title: Re: Largest SMACX stories
Post by: MysticWind on February 28, 2023, 05:22:47 AM

I’ve not read it, but the Wizard of Chiron (https://apolyton.net/forum/other-games/alpha-centauri/ac-stories/14154-the-wizard-of-chiron) by Raging Mouse might be even longer than Joe.

For the links to stories with the current version of the forum, see this index (https://apolyton.net/forum/other-games/alpha-centauri/ac-stories/9417205-a-new-index-for-old-works).

Title: Re: Largest SMACX stories
Post by: nweismuller on February 28, 2023, 09:09:08 PM

The LP I did back in the day was pretty lengthy, with a lot of supplemental material in the thread.  The main updates can be found at:

https://lparchive.org/Sid-Meiers-Alpha-Centauri-(by-nweismuller)/

If you happen to have Something Awful forums archive access, you can read the original thread with the large amount of supplemental material and audience involvement at:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3695372

Hopefully this proves interesting to at least some people, and I always appreciate hearing from people who read my work.  Please feel free to drop me a PM if you end up looking.