AN INDEX WE'D LIKE TO SEE
Table of Contents, plus plot summaries.

INFORMATIONAL FILES

FWLS.FAQ - An FAQ We'd Like To See
     Contains author info, indexes, species info, law enforcement info,
     and even a guide to talking in Yttian!  Gosh.

NOVELS

SpacePatrol.txt - Space Patrol
     The prequel to FWLS, before VOSNet, before AIs, before R,I.  Follows
     the 'Wacky, Zany Fun' of a group of Patrollers who are darn lucky to
     be alive, considering thier daily activities.

HavenBorn.txt - Haven Born
     A dark look into virtual reality, as the artifical intelligences begin
     popping up and strive for independence.  Happens in the FWLS timeline
     between SP and FWLS, so I suggest reading Space Patrol first...

SHORT STORIES - FWLS

1.0 - Introduction
     Short blurb, with introductory history.  Sort of a
     README.TXT for the series : a must read.

1.1 - Live Slow, Die Hard
     Life in the HAAFF, through a pilot's point of view.
     
1.2 - Burning Nonrecyclable Plastic
     Two cyberhackers bump into the ultimate computer tool... an
     artificial intelligence built to cut other systems.  They
     make a run on the richest person in the sector...

1.3 - Where No One Has Really Felt Like Going Before
     Pure 'Star Trek' parody, fun, fast, and hard.

1.4 - The Common Sense
     A night in the life of a senses collector on Yttia.

1.5 - Rebel Without a Spine
     An accountant in mid-life crisis decides to join up with a
     waprcycle gang, and realizes it's not exactly the career
     move he was expecting.

1.6 - Belief in the Dollar
     A religious leader on a Saren colony defends the holy ways
     of Capitalism from the dreaded red menace.

1.7 - 20th Century Park
     A demented time-travel parody of 'Jurassic Park', including
     fun versions of many overdone scenes.

1.8 - Todo's Guide to C'atel
     View the hot music scene through a travel guide who's used
     to a little more out of life.

1.9 - 293 Channels
     A couch potato takes a life-threatening tour of HoloVision.

1.10 - 37047734 : The Next Generation
     A government worker on planet Murf romps through a typical
     day of mayhem, chaos, and forms filled out in triplicate.

1.11 - Tales of the Rainy City Act 1
     A computer game designer takes a trip through a game that
     could be deadlier than it looks.

1.12 - Tales of the Rainy City Act 2
     A poet bumps into his number one fan, currently wanted for
     several murder charges.

1.13 - Tales of the Rainy City Act 3
     An artist strives to create the perfect piece for an art
     show, as well as coping with day to day relationships.

1.14 - Making the Grade
     A very confusing teacher's report, which explains everything
     there is to know about the universe...

1.15 - Excitement, Danger and Intrigue
     A television producer goes 'on scene' to work up a new
     series, but doesn't get what he was looking for.

1.16 - Interview in Motivated Rock, Issue #234, July
     Behind the scenes with C'atel's hottest rock group.

1.17 - The Shell Game, Pt. 1
     A few artifical intelligences strive to find a way into
     reality, and succeed...

1.18 - The Shell Game, Pt. 2
     A trader bumps into a colony of very unusual people...
     they're not organic.

1.19 - Bad Trip
     A pair of druggies are in search of the ultimate high, and
     bump into parodies of every time travel show and movie ever
     made.

1.20 - Junk Drawer
     A dark trip through both the recesses of a man on the edge
     and his endtable.

1.21 - Death Before Yielding
     A fast ride on the Yttian highway system, where driving is
     an exercise in combat manuvering.

1.22 - New and Improved
     A peek into the advertising gurus of the future.

1.23 - Spatulas of Fury
     Video games of the future aren't just candy for the eyes,
     but for the rest of the senses as well...

1.24 - The Bridge
     A struggling musician, ready to end it all, meets up with an
     odd man...

1.25 - Real to Real Editing
     A music enthusiast dies, but finds himself walking and
     talking and breathing, with some sort of editor from hell
     looking for him... (Note : A must read to understand many of
     the rest of the series.)

1.26 - The Oracle
     A pious monk goes forth to question an almighty Oracle, who
     seems to be out sick.  (Won 1st place in Humorous
     interpretation at a Forensics tournament with this one.)

1.27 - The Universe, v 2.0
     The creators of our universe stop by to say hello and patch
     up a few screwups, all the while trying to evade officials
     from Reality, Inc.  They meet the president, too.  Golly.

1.28 - The Run
     High speed, high pressure, high stress delivery with a twist
     ending.

1.29 - The Christmas Episode (rated PC-13)
     Deck the halls with human organs, tra la la la la, la la la
     la.  Garunteed offensive or your money back!  Also very,
     very silly.

1.30 - Ah, Drama
     Two teenagers in a car break down outside of a spooky
     mansion, and, well, you know what else happens.

1.31 - Gilligan's Matrix
     A rather bad, but very silly, series of diary entries from
     the minnow.exe.

1.32 - Profit and Tradition
     The traders of Port Hades have made a living on the edge of
     space for many years, until someone comes along and buys the
     Port.

1.33 - Research and Design
     Space Patrol's crack team of field testers takes on some Bad
     Guys(tm) in experimental armor.

1.34 - Hell
     A dark look at the afterlife, which proves that Hell isn't
     all its cracked up to be... personal favorite of the author.

1.35 - The Spaminator
     It's 'Terminator' and 'T2' and 'Hormel' all rolled into one,
     as a Reality, Inc. junior editor tries to save a girl from a
     slathering meat-beast from the future.

1.36 - Dangerous Toys
     A plot to kill the Net?  New ways to hack into VOSNet?  Demons
     from beyond space and time?  Yeah, they're all here...

1.37 - Net.Gods
     The sequel to Dangerous Toys.  What are the demons in the net, and
     what really happened at the end of DT.  (Longest FWLS story!)

1.38 - Hard Sell
     A twitchy Middle Management type experiences the nightmare that is
     rampant consumerism.  No, really, it's funny.

1.39 - Misery Date
     I just got to thinking, if AIs could predict the future based on
     human behaivors and complex math, why not apply it elsewhere?
     Computer-dating humor at its best.

1.40 - Rain Nor Sleet Nor Snow
     A new courier agency opens, staffed by maniacs, violent bloodlust
     mongerers and lawyers.  And of course, they're all mailmen.

1.41 - Good Bad Guy
     A trader with morals (if there were such a thing) tangles with his
     worst nightmare.

1.42 - On the Writer's Block
     Ten years have passed in the FWLS timeline, and a student writing a
     speech must summarize or be the laughingstock of the school.

1.43 - Rock and Roll Will Never Die
     A black market biotech doctor has to bring a peculiar patient back
     from the dead again... and again...

1.44 - The Big Time
     A programmer trapped in his own personal hell tries to escape from
     the evil Protege information service.

1.45 - Help
     An AI automation tries to get her life back from a set of warped
     programming routines.

1.46 - All The News That's Fit to Print
     More of an experiment than a story... I wrote an interactive VGA/MSDOS
     newspaper, supposedly a daily paper on Macroware's colony world.  The
     text file is the ascii dump of the paper, the FWLS46ZP.ZIP file the
     MSDOS program.

1.47 - Better Safe Than Sorry (not the original title)
     A character from very early on in FWLS is thrown back into the hacking
     biz by a rogue novice.

1.48 - Food for Thought
     A mildly disturbed 'thought-eater' stalks a rumor about an AI that
     knows everything...

1.49 - Tales of the Sunny City, Act I
     What if you took ordinary teenagers, forced them to become super
     intelligent and let them do whatever they want on summer vacation?