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Who is “the Chosen”?

In the popular cult TV hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sarah Michelle Gellar plays Buffy Summers, a teenage girl chosen in her generation to be the Slayer. In this series created by Joss Whedon, Buffy kills countless vampires and other monsters with her trusty wooden stake and with the help of her “Scooby Gang.” But . . .

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Please bear with us

We’re still trying to iron out a few bugs as we try out different themes to search for the best one to display our stories. Expect to see this site change its look a few more times before we settle on something. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. For anyone only wanting to read . . .

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The Missing Earth

The Missing Earth by Dan Swanson Showcase: Regor of Uuz: Times Past, 1969: The Menace of Bantor Part 1 of The Missing Earth by Dan Swanson, partially adapted from Superman #57, by Edmond Hamilton and Wayne Boring published April 13, 2010 When giant robots from another world come to the planet Uuz for the rare . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux

by Dan Swanson, partially adapted from Justice League of America #73-74 by Dennis O’Neil and Dick Dillin
All-Star of Earth-2: The Five Earths Project
After the Earth disappears, a handful of strange visitors from other planets — Kell Orr of Xenon and his twin son and daughter Larre and Karre, Tharka the Superwoman, and Regor of Uuz — each independently investigate Earth’s disappearance. Yet are they prepared for the cause of Earth’s disappearance, the living star called Aquarius? Having just battled both the JSA and the JLA, Aquarius managed to trick the heroes into believing he was destroyed, when he actually fled into space with Starman’s cosmic rod. But Starman and Green Lantern guess the eons-old villain’s deception and track him into deep space. When the heroes of Earth rendezvous with the super-stars of space, will even their combined powers be enough to stop Aquarius?

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Epilogue: Back to Normal?

by Dan Swanson Return to chapter list “Geez, this is boring,” Larre of Xenon complained to his sister as the adults consigned Aquarius to the mercy of the Spectre. “Let’s use the space stereophone and watch some Earth TV programs.” Their father Kell Orr had told them about Earth television when they were growing up, . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Chapter 6: Not with a Bang

by Dan Swanson Return to chapter list Meanwhile, Regor of Uuz had jetted away from his decoy and began firing yet another weapon at the star giant. It was something Doctor Computeer had developed and left in Tharka’s ship, a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher that fired missiles tipped with tactical nuclear warheads. They delivered incredible concussive . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Chapter 5: The Storm Arrives

by Dan Swanson Return to chapter list When no attack came, Aquarius felt a stirring of hope. Maybe he’d fooled them after all. He cautiously extended his mystical senses, and as far as he could tell, there were no living beings within at least a million miles. He’d managed to escape. “I live! I go . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Chapter 4: Thunderclouds Gathering

by Dan Swanson Return to chapter list All five of the strange visitors from other planets were again gathered in the command room of the Zavoy when Tharka realized she was hearing, very faintly, what sounded like several people talking in the next room. But that couldn’t be! There was nobody out here except her . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Chapter 3: Calm Before the Storm

by Dan Swanson, partially adapted from Justice League of America #74 by Dennis O’Neil and Dick Dillin Return to chapter list Deep in space, the two remaining spaceships floated a safe distance away in the shadow of the comet. Kell Orr of Xenon flew up to the floating mountain and began to push against it, . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Chapter 2: Cometary Crosshairs

by Dan Swanson Return to chapter list “I say we just bust this rock into shards and then head in and find out what happened to the Earth!” Kell Orr commented impulsively. The twins silently agreed with him; with their new powers, they could surely break the two spaceships free from this flying rock pile. . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Chapter 1: Astro Smash

by Dan Swanson, partially adapted from Justice League of America #74 by Dennis O’Neil and Dick Dillin Return to chapter list “Astrogation alert!” Kell Orr and his twin son and daughter were in the control room of their ship, the Zavoy, waiting for the end of the hyperjump from their home planet of Xenon and . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Prologue: The Missing Earth

by Dan Swanson, partially adapted from Justice League of America #73 by Dennis O’Neil and Dick Dillin Return to chapter list The Universe of Earth-Two, home of the Justice Society of America: The first intelligences to evolve in the universe were not corporeal beings like ourselves, but the first generation of stars, often called Population . . .

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Amethyst returns in “Out of the Shadows”

Over the last ten years, the Five Earths Project has taken on a multitude of DC Comics characters, such as the JSA, the JLA, Superman, and Batman, as well as several original characters or those based on older characters. But as longtime prolific fanfic writer Libbylawrence proves, there are classic comic-book characters that have still . . .

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New website for the Five Earths Project

The Five Earths Project celebrated its 10th anniversary in January, 2010, since Starsky Hutch 76 and others founded it on January 18, 2000. The Project originally began life as a single Yahoo! Group — The JSA All Star Story Site — in October, 1999, but it wasn’t the Five Earths Project until Starsky founded a . . .

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Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld: Out of the Shadows

by Libbylawrence
Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld: The Five Earths Project
After being blinded by Shadow Demons during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Amethyst was informed by Doctor Fate that she is a daughter of a Lord of Order and quite possibly the most powerful being alive. But how much of this is true and how much misdirection? And when the new threat of the Starry Sky beings strikes the Gemworld, must the royal houses make a pact with their worst enemy in order to survive?

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