Stalking Venus

Ben Campbell is a reserved, intelligent math wizard who studies at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He’s applied to be accepted into Harvard University on scholarship because he doesn’t have over a quarter million dollars to blow on the university’s tuition fees. Ben quickly attracts the attention of his maths teacher, Mickey Rosa, who runs [...]

Hi, I’m Sackboy and I’m guestblogging for StalkingVenus.com. I’ve lived my whole life in a world called Little Big Planet. Tim of StalkingVenus fame and (apparently zero) fortune, has asked me to write a quick paragraph or two telling all you readers what I think of my home world. So seeing as how he and [...]

“Then there’s the enemies… There are a hell of a lot of enemies! Skeletons by the kazillion, zombies, big ugly rotting creatures that explode when you kill them and turn into scores of serpent-like beasties that bite…”

When I was a small child, there was a relatively small handful of author’s names that I knew: Roald Dahl, Alfred Hitchcock, Enid Blyton, A.A. Milne, and of course, C.S. Lewis. I didn’t read all of the Narnia books, because frankly even at age seven, I found them to be a bit preachy. I was [...]

Now here’s a bunch of people with a great idea: A website that allows employees to post anonymous reviews of the company they work for, including the salary that they are being paid.

The website then compiles these reviews and cross references them with reviews from other companies. In this way, a visitor to the site can quickly see who’s earning what and where, as well as how happy the person is there.

The story’s protagonist is a Japanimation-style freerunner chick called Faith (yeah, very subtle). Faith grew up on the streets after her folks were killed during a government protest. She learns the art of running while lurking about with the free-thinking rebellious underworld that lives in the shadows of the surveillance state.