Hello, well first I've been an X-COM player for years and my fanfics are my way of adding more to the X-COM universe. English is not my first language since I am from Portugal and I also never really had time to properly edit my stories, so I'll apologize for any language mistakes.

My fanfics are based are based on the X-COM universe, where aliens and UFOs exist and mankind has been at war with them since 1999.
My long-term plan would be to write a complete series of novels, each based on an existing or cancelled X-COM game. As you might have noticed that plan is taking a long time since I haven't updated any fanfic for quite a while. But the intention is there.

The first story is 'The Unknown Menace', based upon the game UFO: Enemy Unknown. It is finished and it tells the story of the First Alien War, significantly expanded from the game since it mixes the military aspects with world politics and hidden conspiracies in a massive space opera. Originally it was supposed to be a single novel but as I was finishing it I decided the story wasn't finished yet.

Next in the chronology, there's the short story 'Eulogy', which is the tale of a post-war X-COM mission to the former battlefield of Cydonia on Mars.

After it we have 'Abyssal', which isn't finished yet and is set on the game Terror From The Deep, regarding the Second Alien War on the 2040's. I started writing Abyssal right after I finished the Unknown Menace but I've suspended the project again for a number of reasons, the biggest being that I'm not satisfied with the story (and neither I was originally with TFTD).

"Destined Alliance' is a short story set at the beginning of the cancelled game 'Alliance'. No idea when I'll ever be able to finish that one. And I've also have two sketches made for 'Revelation', based on Apocalypse, and 'Nemesis', based on the cancelled game 'Genesis.

What are my main influences on my writing? Well, I'll give a list of what I enjoy reading, not only on sci-fi: the Classical Battletech novels; the Aliens books; Robert Henlein, Phillip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov; Frank Herbert's Dune series. Finally I used to read a lot of Tom Clancy's earlier novels (Hunt For Red October, Red Storm Rising, etc.) and other military fiction.

Some X-COM related links:

http://www.ufopaedia.org - A collection of information for all the games. I'm a regular contributor there.

http://area51.xcomufo.com/index.html - My terrain mods for UFO. Not updated in ages.

Also, I've created a forum at the X-COM site of this site where you can discuss my stories. Just look for the links :)