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A Murmuration of Opas
- Author: William Meikle
- Authors Mastadon: https://mstdn.ca/@williemeikle
- Authors Website: https://www.williammeikle.com
- Added: August 20, 2023
- Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
- Length: 128 Pages
- ASIN: B0CG5CBWJF
- X-Ray: No
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Mankind is spreading through the Solar System but, as yet, is still alone in the vastness of space.
That is all about to change.
A small team of intrepid scientists and engineers have made the long trip through the dark to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, and set up camp on an icy plain under the looming watch of Jupiter above them.
Initial samples show that the planet is host to primitive, unicellular life.
A submersible makes its first dive under the moon’s icy surface and finds signs that the life forms may not be quite so primitive after all. They uncover an indigenous species that shows signs of being capable of swarming together to achieve goals impossible for a single cell, a colonial organism that they nickname Opa. These Opas swarm in several different configurations in the cold dark ocean beneath.
The teams A.I. is set the task of deciphering the science behind the Opa’s dances, a swirling, and swooping that looks very similar to the movements of great flocks of birds back on Earth. Science is done, samples are taken back to the lab on the surface… and that’s when the trouble begins. The Opas have been given a chance to roam in a new environment. A human environment.
Mankind is not the only species hungry for exploration. The Opas escape into the expedition’s living quarters.
They are curious, and hungry.
They are voracious for food…
And they will kill every living organism in the space station!
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BENIGHTED
- Author: E. L. Giles
- Added: August 15, 2023
- Genre: Horror
- Length: 173 Pages
- ASIN: B0CFWVH3SP
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> For the past fifteen years, a fog has crept across the earth, blanketing every living thing in shadow. Anyone entering the dark curtain is never heard from again.
> Magnus Aune knows this better than anyone. His family lives on the last sun-touched expanse, a simple cliff dwelling overlooking the ocean, and each day, Magnus watches the fog creep closer.
> For once, he knows the meaning of true isolation.
> Overcome by despair, willing to risk his own mortality, Magnus leads his family beyond the shadow.
> But is he leading them to their salvation? Or will each member of the family finally be judged?
Hunger: The Complete Trilogy
- Author: Jeremy Robinson
- Genre: Science Fiction
- Added: July 18, 2023
- Length: 931 Pages
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> Desperate to solve a global food shortage, ExoGen scientist Dr. Ella Masse oversees the creation and release of RC-714, a gene that unlocks millions of years of adaptation and evolution, allowing crops to use long dormant junk DNA to rapidly adapt to any environment. The world’s food supply grows aggressively, occupying every inch of earth, no matter how inhospitable. World hunger is averted. Humanity flourishes. RC-714 is digested, absorbed…and passed on.
> The Change affects small, fast breeding mammals first. They multiply with the same aggressive speed as the ExoGen plants, but a new, insatiable hunger drives them to violence. War between species breaks out. When RC-714 reaches humanity, along with every other large creature on the planet, civilization implodes. Every living thing that consumed the ExoGen crops begins to adapt to a world full of predators, accessing genes dating back to the beginning of life itself.
> Peter Crane and his son Jakob survive the Change, living in their family farmhouse and eating non-ExoGen food from a biodome, one of many provided by Ella Masse, who discovered the ramifications of her breakthrough too late. The pair ekes out a living in a world full of monsters, surviving until Ella shows up on their doorstep with her daughter, pursued by desperate predators and men alike.