Ten years ago today, I uploaded my first story to the internet. That story was Uninvited, an XCOM 2 fanfiction. It was pretty short and pretty basic, and I wasn’t much good at writing yet, but people enjoyed it, and they encouraged me to keep going. I released Pinwheel not long after.Thanks to a random turn-based strategy game that happened to have one very appealing enemy unit, I now have a career that has spanned a decade and I’m nearing eighty published works.Back then, I would never have imagined that doing this would become my full-time job, or that I’d have a sci-fi universe of my own with a huge community of readers.I feel incredibly lucky to be able to spend all day writing for you guys, and to have the means to create artwork and comics and audiobooks. It’s a privilege to be able to work with so many talented people and to have them expand and enrich the stories I tell.My heartfelt thanks go out to everyone who has supported me and encouraged me and shared their enthusiasm for my work.
Since today is the tenth anniversary, I thought it would be appropriate to rewrite and expand that original story. I tried to preserve the tone and intent of the original as much as possible while updating the more technical aspects like grammar and punctuation. I hope you guys enjoy the little surprise.
You can read the story here, and ebook downloads are attached to the post:https://snekguy.com/stories/xcom/uninvited-10th-anniversary-edition/
Big thanks to Meklab for creating such a great cover on such short notice.
Oh, and happy 4th of July to my American readers!