Marcel Popescu

I posted this to HN and I realized it might be useful for other people. If at least one person who wasn't aware of fan-fiction discovers it as a result, this has served its purpose. For Buffy fans, TTH has a huge number of stories, both in-universe and crossovers with other worlds. Speakertocustomers , Becuzitswrong , Cordyfan , DianeCastle and Hotpoint are a few of my favorite authors. Hotpoint's crossover between X-COM and SG-1 is absolutely amazing. For other worlds, FF , SB , SV and AO3 are the most well-known sites for fanfiction. One of my favorite stories is Taylor Varga . What I normally do is I download the stories in the .mobi format - TTH and AO3 have that feature in the site, and for the others you can use the FanFicFare plugin for Calibre - and then upload them to my Kindle. This allows me to read in bed, which is bad for my sleep but I like it :)

The world's observatories spotted them on August 27, 2014. They came from somewhere in the Orion constellation and took their sweet time doing it: it was more than three months before they became visible enough that the amateur astronomers were beginning to spot them. The White House made an official announcement on December 1st. It didn't say that much, but the news killed all other stories. The Pentagon saw the biggest increase in military spending since 9/11, with a tiny part of that fortune going to NASA and the Pasadena and Houston observatories. The New Year came to a rather anxious world; most of the panic had subsided by then, with barely a couple of street preachers warning everyone of the impending apocalypse. Gun sales were at an all-time high, not so much for protection against the aliens (nobody expected a few shotguns to help there) as against possible riots. On March 1st, two hundred and thirty nine ships stopped at a distance of 2.5 million miles - about t...