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SCI Stories #1
SCI Stories: Book 1 - Tainted Victory
The Superhuman Control Initiative came to be in the aftermath of humans suddenly gaining superhuman powers. An authoritarian regime, the SCI controls everything to do with superhumans. Those supers who don't register with the SCI are excluded from society. Most become criminals, having no other choice. This is the story of heroes and villains living under the SCI.
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The setting is a world of superheroes and sci-fi, and the main character is not a hero. He is a villain, with mental abilities. He is a bad man who does bad things. If you are looking for a golden age superhero story, you've come to the wrong place. If you're looking for a tale where the bad guy wins, keep reading.
Rated R: Definite language, sex, and all the horrible things that can happen in the world. If you have triggers, consider this your warning.
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The setting is a world of superheroes and sci-fi, and the main character is not a hero. He is a villain, with mental abilities. He is a bad man who does bad things. If you are looking for a golden age superhero story, you've come to the wrong place. If you're looking for a tale where the bad guy wins, keep reading.
Rated R: Definite language, sex, and all the horrible things that can happen in the world. If you have triggers, consider this your warning.
- GenresSuperheroesUrban Fantasy
77 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 7, 2019
117 people are currently reading
16 people want to read
About the author
Stuart Grosse
229 books209 followersI'm a rookie author, looking to write stories that I enjoy writing. Not gonna get awards, but honestly, I'm happy with each and every person that reads my work.
Stuart is a sci-fi and anime geek, who dabbles in tabletop and video gaming. He enjoys cosplaying and has gone to DragonCon annually since 2009. Frozen Soul is his first book.
It is a sad, sad day when you finally break down and realize that you will never have the life you wanted, never do the things you wished to do, and never see the things you wanted to see. All because of a stupid lack of lightsabers.
I was a 26 y/o college student at Armstrong Atlantic State University, as a theater major. Went to school for a while before, dropped out, tried to go back, dropped out.. Not much to say other than the fact that I'm a laid back guy, and the only drama I like is the kind that's on the stage.
If I act like an idiot, or do anything to offend you, chances are it is not intentional, and I'm being oblivious. In that case, hit me upside the head, and tell me, because I don't catch subtle hints.
Lives in Athens, Georgia, USA
https://www.facebook.com/Mirikon
mirikon@gmail.com
Stuart is a sci-fi and anime geek, who dabbles in tabletop and video gaming. He enjoys cosplaying and has gone to DragonCon annually since 2009. Frozen Soul is his first book.
It is a sad, sad day when you finally break down and realize that you will never have the life you wanted, never do the things you wished to do, and never see the things you wanted to see. All because of a stupid lack of lightsabers.
I was a 26 y/o college student at Armstrong Atlantic State University, as a theater major. Went to school for a while before, dropped out, tried to go back, dropped out.. Not much to say other than the fact that I'm a laid back guy, and the only drama I like is the kind that's on the stage.
If I act like an idiot, or do anything to offend you, chances are it is not intentional, and I'm being oblivious. In that case, hit me upside the head, and tell me, because I don't catch subtle hints.
Lives in Athens, Georgia, USA
https://www.facebook.com/Mirikon
mirikon@gmail.com
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July 4, 2019
Eeshshsh....
+ The good thing: it's fun.
+ Another one: X-Men vibes.
- Weirdish phrases:
Q:
Lady Victory tried to look calm and collected for the cameras in her red, white, and blue spandex outfit (c) I can just imagine this lady trying to pull it off.
Q:
Sandy’s eyes devoid of any real intelligence beamed ... (c) Gawsh.
+----------------------------- A horrible & cartoonish & horrible protagonist with a weird take on mind-assisted BDSM:
Q:
Sandra never even realized that, after he had put her to bed, that he had broken her will into tiny pieces and rebuilt her mind to better suit his needs. As they talked over breakfast, she was all to happy to accept the secretary position in his office, ‘until she got on her feet’. She also discovered a new fantasy worming its way through her mind, the idea of being a bimbo slavegirl to a powerful master excited her. It was so wrong, so… backwards, but the more she looked at him, the more she wanted to submit, to just… let a strong, dominant man make the decisions. And slowly, she changed. ...
Sandra Wellington was dead, for all intents and purposes. Sandy Daze was all that left (c) Eh? Too much Hannibal, 3?
Q:
He had to repress a smile as he watched the way the woman scanned his office, before looking him over. Classic signs of training. Clear the room, and evaluate threats. Not a nervous response, but something well honed and practiced, so that she was always on alert. Interrupting her would only put her on edge (c)
Q:
She didn’t like the idea of lying on the couch. It made her look like she needed therapy! Which was a stupid objection, honestly, because she was here expressly to get therapy. But even if her brain knew objectively that the objection was born from living in a society that stigmatized mental health issues, there was a difference between that and actually believing it. (c)
Q:
In terms of psychic surgery, the chief worry is cognitive dissonance and temporal dysphoria. If someone’s memories don’t match up with reality, it can cause all sorts of trouble, I assure you. (c)
Q:
I am what people call the ‘Paragon’ archetype. Flight, super-strength, durability, all that stuff. (c)
Q:
Mindcrafting, to the uninitiated, is the mentalist’s art of shaping and altering a mind to be more… suitable to the desired outcome. As with any art form, there is a wide range when it comes to quality and talent. (c)
Q:
At its basest level, Mindcrafting makes changes in the target’s mind, affecting one of four areas. First, and most obvious, is the Memory. Whether it is simply stripping out unwanted memories, or tailoring false memories, or suppressing memories until a trigger happens, acting on a subject’s memories does not, in and of itself, affect the subject’s personality. While it can be used to change the person so that they forget their friends and remember being slavishly loyal to someone, for instance, that is a brute force approach, and is less than productive, as a general rule.
Second, naturally, is the Id. This is the home of a person’s base, instinctive drives. The Id seeks pleasure and avoids things that do not bring it pleasure. So, a change in the id could make a vegan person suddenly gain pleasure at the thought of eating a hamburger, and loathe the taste of soy. Or it could make a smoker not desire cigarettes any more, if you wished to make that change. At a deeper level, it allows one to plant the seed of a new fetish, or to make someone more vanilla, if they wish.
Third, we have the Super-Ego. While the Id is the home of desire, the Super-Ego is the seat of ethics and morality. Tampering in this area of the mind directly affects the subject’s sense of right and wrong itself. Not limited to simply deciding what is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, it also affects how deeply one considers such things to be right or wrong. Most people weigh different actions according to severity, but if one were to make a subtle shift, and make someone’s sense of right and wrong weigh murder on the same level as most people see going 10 MPH over the speed limit, then that will have rippling consequences throughout their life.
Fourth, and finally, there is the Ego itself. This is the core of a person’s personality, how they measure Desire versus Morality, as filtered through the contents of their Memories. This is both the seat of conscious thought, and the birthplace of rationalizations, defense mechanisms, and coping methods. A change here does not so much change a person’s beliefs, or their memories, or what they enjoy, but it can make them convince themselves of something. A purely mundane example of this would be something like a battered spouse convincing herself that she deserved to be hit for whatever reason her abuser gave her. Change that small bit, and the woman refuses to simply take it the next time her abuser raises his hand to her.
Now, changing any one of these four sections can have a profound impact on a person’s psyche, and affect their day-to-day life as well. (c)
Q:
There are many ways to go about turning someone into a devoted servant, who will do whatever it is that you want. Some of those ways are as ancient as human civilization itself, existing long before people ever had powers. Mental powers, in particular, are only the most recent way to mold a strong, independent individual into a perfectly submissive little toy that lives to serve you. (c)
+ The good thing: it's fun.
+ Another one: X-Men vibes.
- Weirdish phrases:
Q:
Lady Victory tried to look calm and collected for the cameras in her red, white, and blue spandex outfit (c) I can just imagine this lady trying to pull it off.
Q:
Sandy’s eyes devoid of any real intelligence beamed ... (c) Gawsh.
+----------------------------- A horrible & cartoonish & horrible protagonist with a weird take on mind-assisted BDSM:
Q:
Sandra never even realized that, after he had put her to bed, that he had broken her will into tiny pieces and rebuilt her mind to better suit his needs. As they talked over breakfast, she was all to happy to accept the secretary position in his office, ‘until she got on her feet’. She also discovered a new fantasy worming its way through her mind, the idea of being a bimbo slavegirl to a powerful master excited her. It was so wrong, so… backwards, but the more she looked at him, the more she wanted to submit, to just… let a strong, dominant man make the decisions. And slowly, she changed. ...
Sandra Wellington was dead, for all intents and purposes. Sandy Daze was all that left (c) Eh? Too much Hannibal, 3?
Q:
He had to repress a smile as he watched the way the woman scanned his office, before looking him over. Classic signs of training. Clear the room, and evaluate threats. Not a nervous response, but something well honed and practiced, so that she was always on alert. Interrupting her would only put her on edge (c)
Q:
She didn’t like the idea of lying on the couch. It made her look like she needed therapy! Which was a stupid objection, honestly, because she was here expressly to get therapy. But even if her brain knew objectively that the objection was born from living in a society that stigmatized mental health issues, there was a difference between that and actually believing it. (c)
Q:
In terms of psychic surgery, the chief worry is cognitive dissonance and temporal dysphoria. If someone’s memories don’t match up with reality, it can cause all sorts of trouble, I assure you. (c)
Q:
I am what people call the ‘Paragon’ archetype. Flight, super-strength, durability, all that stuff. (c)
Q:
Mindcrafting, to the uninitiated, is the mentalist’s art of shaping and altering a mind to be more… suitable to the desired outcome. As with any art form, there is a wide range when it comes to quality and talent. (c)
Q:
At its basest level, Mindcrafting makes changes in the target’s mind, affecting one of four areas. First, and most obvious, is the Memory. Whether it is simply stripping out unwanted memories, or tailoring false memories, or suppressing memories until a trigger happens, acting on a subject’s memories does not, in and of itself, affect the subject’s personality. While it can be used to change the person so that they forget their friends and remember being slavishly loyal to someone, for instance, that is a brute force approach, and is less than productive, as a general rule.
Second, naturally, is the Id. This is the home of a person’s base, instinctive drives. The Id seeks pleasure and avoids things that do not bring it pleasure. So, a change in the id could make a vegan person suddenly gain pleasure at the thought of eating a hamburger, and loathe the taste of soy. Or it could make a smoker not desire cigarettes any more, if you wished to make that change. At a deeper level, it allows one to plant the seed of a new fetish, or to make someone more vanilla, if they wish.
Third, we have the Super-Ego. While the Id is the home of desire, the Super-Ego is the seat of ethics and morality. Tampering in this area of the mind directly affects the subject’s sense of right and wrong itself. Not limited to simply deciding what is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, it also affects how deeply one considers such things to be right or wrong. Most people weigh different actions according to severity, but if one were to make a subtle shift, and make someone’s sense of right and wrong weigh murder on the same level as most people see going 10 MPH over the speed limit, then that will have rippling consequences throughout their life.
Fourth, and finally, there is the Ego itself. This is the core of a person’s personality, how they measure Desire versus Morality, as filtered through the contents of their Memories. This is both the seat of conscious thought, and the birthplace of rationalizations, defense mechanisms, and coping methods. A change here does not so much change a person’s beliefs, or their memories, or what they enjoy, but it can make them convince themselves of something. A purely mundane example of this would be something like a battered spouse convincing herself that she deserved to be hit for whatever reason her abuser gave her. Change that small bit, and the woman refuses to simply take it the next time her abuser raises his hand to her.
Now, changing any one of these four sections can have a profound impact on a person’s psyche, and affect their day-to-day life as well. (c)
Q:
There are many ways to go about turning someone into a devoted servant, who will do whatever it is that you want. Some of those ways are as ancient as human civilization itself, existing long before people ever had powers. Mental powers, in particular, are only the most recent way to mold a strong, independent individual into a perfectly submissive little toy that lives to serve you. (c)
June 14, 2019
Very provocative
So refreshing to read of success of the bad guy. I really loved it. ' The only jewel she was allowed to wear' was amazingly erotic.
So refreshing to read of success of the bad guy. I really loved it. ' The only jewel she was allowed to wear' was amazingly erotic.
January 19, 2020
Great start
This is a great start to a series and I look forward to more to come as I read the next couple
This is a great start to a series and I look forward to more to come as I read the next couple
June 4, 2019
Despite some of the really twisted stuff in other of the author's books, I have enjoyed some of them, specifically the Rules-Free VRMMO series.
This (novella?) just didn't do it for me. It seemed forced/stilted to me, and if the writing style doesn't grab me in a book like this (bad people doing bad things to people who don't deserve it), it doesn't have much else to recommend it. Not his best work IMO.
This (novella?) just didn't do it for me. It seemed forced/stilted to me, and if the writing style doesn't grab me in a book like this (bad people doing bad things to people who don't deserve it), it doesn't have much else to recommend it. Not his best work IMO.
April 21, 2020
Up till now and as far as I have read, this series is Stuart Grosse's best work! Less restrained and more visceral than anything else he has written. A brave and engrossing men's fantasy that does not make any false pretenses of the boring social conformity found in all but a vanishingly small subset of fiction. I recommend the entire titillating, well executed series.
If only I could find more like this! (And I do search.)
If only I could find more like this! (And I do search.)
May 18, 2019
Not my thing
Very little to do with supers. Mostly the seduction and domination of a hero. I saw some of these characters in memoirs of a supervillain. This one just grossed me out.
Very little to do with supers. Mostly the seduction and domination of a hero. I saw some of these characters in memoirs of a supervillain. This one just grossed me out.
May 28, 2019
The most evil of Grosse's protagonists. Too much so for me. Although I like most of Grosse's others books.
July 2, 2019
Awesome possum book
Great book, if your into dark fantasy. I really liked how the story has been put into motion/ char building.
Great book, if your into dark fantasy. I really liked how the story has been put into motion/ char building.
August 19, 2020
It’s well written but not my type of story and I don’t plan on reading more of this story.
March 22, 2021
The author could have at least proof read this once. It was unbearably hard to read given the incredibly poor grammar.
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May 24, 2022Good read.
Not recommended for people that are easily offended. Fun read. Now I need ten more words to finish this review.
Not recommended for people that are easily offended. Fun read. Now I need ten more words to finish this review.
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