Each month the Main Page displays one or more featured stories. Featured stories are selected by community discussion at Forum:Featuring. This page describes all the past featured fiction works.
During August you can help select the featured fiction for next month at the discussion forum for featured fiction (decide what will be featured during September).
August 2010[]
- Heart of a Ninja by The Ninja Writer is a story about a teenager in Japan who witnesses a ninja assassination and eventually becomes a ninja himself.
- Moon Hammer is a science fiction ghost story by JWSchmidt and is about a witch hunter from the 15th century who returns to haunt the people of Earth.
July 2010[]
January 2010[]
October 2009[]
Also remained featured in November and December:
- Saphrona's Jewel - fantasy - Prince Altair of Saphrona and his new bride
- Circles - poetry - heart-rending circles
- On War - poetry - morbid ghouls like it, do you?
September 2009[]
- The Mystery Man a short story; mystery and fantasy.
- Fairest Emily - featured poetry.
- Police Cat - Back by popular demand. Part of the The Adventure Cat Stories.
August 2009[]
- Trimen Brothers - A complete story with illustrations.
- Police Cat - Part of the The Adventure Cat Stories.
June & July 2009[]
- The Heir - it is a popular page.
- An Alien Wife committed Adultery and tricked her Husband. - A new twist on an old story
- The Lost Cat - A Finished work and has an image.
April 2009[]
Loss - A tragic account of a man telling about his loss.
February 2009[]
"special features" were introduced with links to Forum:Should sex be allowed on Wiki? and Unwelcome content on the main page.
February 2009[]
One-word-at-a-time - this is a popular page that can quickly get new visitors involved with editing. It was was marked as "featured" two years ago and can usefully be featured on the main page as a way to attract participants.
January 2009[]
- VX Super Force by Tyroguun. Captain VX, Captain VX Girl, Oranga, Strongholder, Veronica Venus, Syler, and Dino Boy form the VX Super Force and confront the Blue Cyber Tech Force and the Beatdown Gang, who are uniting with an ancient foe to rule the world. An epic and very good superhero story.
- 2084 by Nonimportant and Yunzhong Hou. With each passing second we are closer to complete lack of privacy, terrorism and war. The media distract us from the blatant lies and violation of human rights in our own country and we're attacked by relentless waves of propaganda everyday, persuading us to fight for the interests of someone we don't know...
- Fly Paper by JWSchmidt. X-Files Fan Fiction; Dana Scully is abducted and taken to the Moon!
December 2008[]
- Human Mind Project by User:Yunzhong Hou: The Human Mind Project is an initiative launched by Andarin in year 2030 to decode the workings of the mind... and propel humanity to the next stage in its technological development. It ended in 2044, with fantastic results. Come, and experience Andarin's manipulative power and his majestic brainchild for yourself... (Original novella)
- For better or worse by User:Yunzhong Hou: Beautiful, rhyming poem about revolution and its consequences.
- The search for Kalid by User:Davichito and User:JWSchmidt: This is a science fiction novel (65,000 words, still under construction) about Leone, a planetary counselor of Sakkara, searching for Kalid in order to get help to stop the murderous rampage of Set. What mystical powers or advanced technologies does Kalid have as leader of the Haldus Order? Can Leone get Kalid's help or have evil forces already taken control of the Haldus Order?
November 2008[]
Cellular Civilization - Where do new ideas and new technologies come from? Stefiz al-Arabid, a computer science student, receives a strange phone call from a cyber-stalker with screen name "PAlbert". She tells him to leave her alone, but two days later he finds her on campus and invites her to join a secret technology development project, turning her life upside-down. Within days her year-long romantic relationship with Charlie Parker is on the rocks and then Charlie dies in a horrible car crash. Or is he dead? Can Stefi be sure of anything or has PAlbert used fantastic technologies to warp her mind? Parts of this story are told from the points of view of each of the main characters. Written as a science fiction collaborative effort.
July 2008[]
VirileMail - A nanorobotic artificial life form visits Earth (a Science Fiction novel) by JWSchmidt, Davichito, AmishThrasher, Eric119, Braiba and others.
June 2008[]
Story of Sir Isaac Newton, by Jumach
- The history of man, drunk
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Spoof, by V-Rex
- A spoof of LOTR
May 2008[]
- Chronicles of Kings and Knights, by Yunzhong
- *Harbinger - Fan Fiction set in the StarCraft fictional universe.
- The Last Day (Realism, marked as featured here). It describes a suicide attempt.
March 2008[]
- Lament of Val-Tymia is a poem (marked as featured).
- The Man That Died of Hunger, a very short story by Nonimportant (marked as featured).
- Vamps is a short vampire story (marked as featured).
The origins of featured fiction[]
The Fiction Wikia, Novelas, was started in January of 2005. A template for marking featured fiction was made near the end of 2006 (original version). The use of forum pages to facilitate monthly community discussion of featured fiction began in May 2008 (see Forum:June 2008).
Featured fiction from 2006[]
- In late 2006 Chandler Bang was marked as featured. This is a short story in the Fortunately/Unfortunately story game format.
Featured fiction from 2007[]
- Secret of the Were-Virus is a Science Fiction story that was marked as featured fiction in January 2007.
- Sun of Zartha is Fan Fiction set in the fictional world of Men In Black. It was marked as featured fiction in January 2007.
- In February 2007 the story called "2084" was marked as featured fiction. This Science Fiction story was inspired by George Orwell's novel "1984".
- The short hyperlink-based story game "One-word-at-a-time" was marked as featured fiction in February 2007.
- Mage, part of the Neverending Wiki Fantasy world, was marked as featured fiction in March 2007 .
- In April 2007 the fantasy story To Mance A Mance was marked as featured.
- The story Notroswellville is in Category Realism. It was marked as featured fiction in April 2007.
- In November 2007 A Marine's Story was marked as featured. This story is set in the StarCraft fictional universe.
See Category:Featured for the entire listing of featured works.