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Free online hard science fiction epic, novel, and stories

The ultimate science fiction novel for geeks

A science fiction dream-- or nightmare-- which may someday engulf us all

The Chance of a Realtime is a J. Staute online epic. Science fiction. The research into likely future human history and technologies seen on this site was all performed in order to make this story possible.

A brief introduction to the J. Staute of this story
Prologue: Critical mass
Chapter one: Something different
Chapter two: Learning the ropes
Chapter three: Drafted
Chapter four: Navigator
Chapter five: Contact
Chapter six: The farthest reaches
Chapter seven: Baptism by fire
Chapter eight: Putting a genie back in his bottle
Chapter nine: Inner space wars
Chapter ten: Sol mate
Chapter eleven: Fractures
Chapter twelve: Not to be
Chapter thirteen: A fantasy of chaos
Chapter fourteen: Descent into chaos
Chapter fifteen: Hell and the human spirit
Chapter sixteen: The terror
Chapter seventeen: The taking of Amphitritium
Chapter eighteen: The siege of the seventh palace
Chapter nineteen: The battle of Belphi station
Chapter twenty: Me, myself, and a nano eye
Chapter twenty-one: Bad bad boy
Chapter twenty-two: Bright lights, hard vacuum
Chapter twenty-three: Return to origin

J. Staute and the first immortal artificial intelligence

Reference notes on the life and times of J. Staute

Real world teenage adventures

The journals of Jerry Staute a.k.a. "Chance" Staute


Me and my Moonshadow flying wing
The poor man's airship
The Moonshadow flying wing pilot logs
Notes from the owner/pilot of the original Moonshadow airship