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<– Chapter 27
John Dorian is weary.Weary unto death, and growing sleepier by the moment.His eyelids flutter as he struggles to keep them open.They’ve grown unreasonably heavy.He is reminded that it is the same physical motion by which he used to access the Strand, the virtual universe within the real, the angels dancing on the heads [...]
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<– Chapter 26 / Chapter 28 –>
Raville’s laboratory occupied the entire second floor of an unremarkable square building set indiscriminately amongst the jumbled maze of other non-descript structures that made up the station’s industrial research park. Upon initial inspection, it was not the sort of space one would envision when asked to develop a mental [...]
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<– Chapter 25 / Chapter 27 –>
They shuttled back down to the Giari Tau station within the hour, accompanied by an escort of willing Marines led by Lieutenant Sainz.The Misfit Toys were enticed to come along, though it was not a decision made without reservations, many of which Dorian assumed had something to do with [...]
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I was recently asked to prepare a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of Agnosis for a deal that ultimately fell through over novel length and money (meaning, the publisher quite correctly determined that the book was too long to market effectively in a way that would insure a decent return on their investment). Being of a rather [...]
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We’re getting toward the end of Agnosis, so I’ve started thinking seriously about the next work I’m going to serialize. My initial plan had been to go ahead and post From the Hands of Hostile Gods, but I think I’m going to go off queue for a bit and post an older, non-science fiction work [...]
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<– Chapter 24 / Chapter 26 –>
In the minutes leading up to a classic bombardment by an array ofFleisch Plasmatic Hammers, Firing Control alerts Engineering of their intention to deploy heavy weaponry by means of a white paper known as the Ordnance Compensation Estimate.This report provides a ready guideline of how many Hammers will be [...]
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<– Chapter 23 / Chapter 25 –>
Appendant to the plastisheen environmental dome that encased Giari Tau EOSO Facilty Ketus O-12 was a squat, ovoid containment shell obtainable only via a hydraulic lift that departed from the towering Administrative and Sec-Com Nexus through a reinforced flexsteel umbilical shaft.This navel-like eruption, resembling more than anything else a [...]
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<– Chapter 22 / Chapter 24 –>
Ray Morrical, captain of the Proletariat Horde, consensus leader of the fringe worlds’ leading political insurrectionist organization, and notorious geo-economic provocateur, stood on the bridge of the Magellan class battle cruiser the T.E.S. Indianapolis calmly perusing the day’s mission status log over the shoulder of Third Cycle Leet Commander [...]
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<– Chapter 21 / Chapter 23 –>
In the twilight landscape between dreams that are not dreams, and pure data that is neither foam, nor network, nor seenop fancy, Dorian finds himself on a low ridge above a sea of tall brown grass. There are no trees, no rocks, only an endless plain as far as [...]
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So I just got done watching Frank Darabont’s video interpretation of the Stephen King classic story The Mist. I mean literally. Like in the last ten minutes.
And I am so pissed off, I’m almost shaking. I’m outraged. I feel emotionally violated.
Wait, let’s step back for a moment. I should [...]
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