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The Outside

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Humanity’s super-intelligent AI Gods brutally punish breaches in reality, as one young scientist discovers, in this intense and brilliant space opera.

Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI Gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their agents. Instead of simply executing her, they ...

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A good villain can make or break a book—think of The Silence of the Lambs‘ Hannibal Lecter, Heart of Darkness‘s Colonel Kurtz, or even Harry Lime from The Third Man. Eviana Talirr is a force of nature from page one, her presence felt from the plot’s inciting incident, during which a reactor tears a hole in […]
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