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Excerpt from Measure of Adulthood
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW9288ZF Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/m2KD0G I had basically no information on my other son beyond his name, identification number, and the fact he was operant. I was pretty sure he hadn’t been born operant, but I had no idea how long he’d been operant. The Empire was better equipped to recognize and enable it…
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Excerpt from The Invention of Motherhood
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075X4L8ZJ Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bzaevD Residence security agreed that I was cleared for the Residence and admitted me. I got about two steps before my perception said someone was there and I was swept up in a big bear hug by Scimtar himself. “Welcome home, daughter!” Scimtar was the definition of larger than life…
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Excerpt from The Invention of Motherhood
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075X4L8ZJ Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bzaevD Grace I would like to ask you about extending. The telepathic message was not unexpected. I had twelve days – three Imperial weeks – to go in my twenty year commitment to the Imperial military. In our capacity as Merlon’s Eyes, Asto and I had been all over the…
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Excerpt from SettingThe Board
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WQGYK7L Books2Read link:https://books2read.com/b/3JDXpK Yalskarr was nothing impressive to look at – yet. Docks, blocky wooden warehouses, and the occasional stone or brick edifice rising three or four stories off the ground. It was Calmena’s answer to Houston at the dawn of the petrochemical age. This time, the hard work of setting up the…
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The Locale of Aescalon, the Connected Realms and Major Characters
Aescalon is the cavern linking the 165 major Connected Realms and all the trillions of lesser ones. It is also the portal by which mass-energy penetrates into them. One of the original titles I played with was “Blowing the Bubbles of Creation” (and I’ll likely use that title eventually) as that is what Aescalon is:…
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End of Childhood and Moving The Pieces
These are books in two different series taking place in the same fictional universe at roughly the same time. Both books cover the beginning and first engagements in the long-awaited and prepared for war between the fractal demons and the Empire of Humanity, and they were released almost together. End of Childhood (Amazon link Books2Read…
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Premise: Calmena and the Preparations For War series
The idea was simple: Demons have found a species (humanity) that has more potential to resist their conquest than any they have previously encountered due to operant abilities. But they’ve also found a planet which has lost contact with the main part of the Empire, and has also lost understanding of the gifts and of…
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Why The Structure of the Empire’s Government Looks Libertarian
What are the essential characteristics of the government in the Empire of Humanity?
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You’re Not Arguing Science, You’re Preaching Religion
Last week, I followed the Facebook page of an author I once used to respect. After three days where literally every post – roughly 10-12 – had lengthy screeds against those of differing political persuasion, I dropped him. If he’d been using facts, or talking about the science of the matter, that would have been…