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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
While the Eyrie is mostly the place where I make available various things that I've worked on, I also provide a variety of services both to Eyrie users and to the general public. Many of these are related to on-line fiction of various kinds. Note that at least until I've had time to finish completing and polishing the infrastructure that I've already built, I'm not looking to offer any new services at this time (I already have quite a few projects that I haven't made available simply due to lack of time).
The standard Eyrie usage policy applies to all of these services:
These services are offered free to the Internet community and are running off of my private computer. I assume that that everyone using them will use behave responsibility. I have no time to deal with troublemakers and abusers, so please don't make me make time. The hallmark of the Internet community is its willingness to contribute to the good of the entire community; the best way to thank me or any other volunteer is to find something you can contribute to the community. Working together, each of us contributing what we can to the whole, we can all make the Internet a better place to communicate and collaborate.
Enjoy!
I personally moderate rec.arts.comics.creative and rec.games.roguelike.angband, the moderation of which is hosted on the Eyrie. I also am one of the moderators and the injection site for comp.lang.perl.moderated, and the Eyrie provides the submission address for the newsgroup.
The Eyrie also hosts the moderation facilities for soc.culture.japan.moderated (but I am not otherwise involved in the group). And finally, the Eyrie provides the autoreply for attempted posts to sci.psychology.consciousness.
I used to offer to host any collaborative fiction project, and I still maintain, on the Eyrie, the mailing lists for several shared-universe or fanfiction writing projects (although I'm not picking up any new mailing lists until I improve the mailing list infrastructure).
To get the list of mailing lists hosted on the Eyrie, go to the Mailman list page. From there, you can subscribe to any of the public mailing lists.
I moderate and archive rec.arts.comics.creative, so this is the canonical site for those stories. The archives are, these days, unfortunately infrequently updated, although I do hope to improve that process someday. The archives are organized roughly by "imprint," a set of related stories usually set in the same overarching shared universe.
The archives are also available via FTP, but use the above HTTP link if you can't easily handle gzip-compressed files. Most web servers can.
Growing out of a huge thread on the now-defunct rec.arts.comics, the LNH is the oldest and best developed of any of the universes on rec.arts.comics.creative with the exception of Superguy. Humor and parody are the basis of the universe, with characters like Cheesecake-Eater Lad and Cannon Fodder.
Omega is a world of heroes with psi powers, a world of corrupt governments and powerful corporations, a world in which to be different may be a death sentence. It's also the home of some of the best on-line fiction that I've ever read.
A little over a year ago, alien power batteries descended to Earth to empower a hundred selected people with the power to bring about Civilization. That year has been one of the most tumultuous ones in Earth's history... A more adventure-oriented (rather than superheroic) universe, reminiscent of the Lensman and Green Lantern series.
rec.arts.anime.creative is probably the largest Usenet newsgroup for posted fiction. Anime differs from almost all other published fiction in that the companies which produce it generally don't mind, and even actively encourage, fiction derived from their works. rec.arts.anime.creative is a major source of anime-based fan-fiction.
Superguy was the first, starting on a mailing list long before the Legion of Net.Heroes began on rec.arts.comics. As I was once told by a Superguy author, stories have to meet three criteria: they have to be about superheroes, they have to be funny, and they have to be good. The better they are, the less important the first two criteria are.
Russ Allbery
<rra@stanford.edu>