Light Shaper, page 43
Rigel wavered slightly as he was about to enter the ship itself. He was exhausted. He grabbed on to the ship’s hull to steady himself, and he immediately felt something like a thrum of shared awareness pass from the ship into his hands. He thought of Atlas; it was involuntary.
And something inside the ship answered back.
“The power of Kyrios grows as its fragments join,” Dex said quietly as he and Rigel crossed the threshold into the Stormchild. “We might yet fight against the Core, and win.”
Rigel was going to ask what he meant by that, but at that moment he stepped onto the hallway, and a blur of black fur came bounding out of nowhere to launch itself straight at him.
“Ahhhhh!” Rigel yelled even as he was thrown back by the gigantic beast. It looked like a wolf cub on steroids, and its muzzle was right over his face.
“Rent!” Alain yelled at it.
Then its warm tongue came out, and the beast was licking Rigel furiously. It tickled.
“I forgot to mention,” Alain told Rigel as he was struggling to stand up in between licks. “We also have a dog.”
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Haven Prime: Book One
The world is gone. All that’s left are the monsters.
The creatures attacked Haven VII with no warning. An AI named Kyrios, a nearly omnipotent being, should have protected the city during the Night of the Swarm.
Except It didn’t.
No one knows why It failed, or why It saved eight specific people: the Captain, the Seer, the Sentry, the Messenger, the Engineer, the Alchemist, the Medic, and the Stewardess. They have no idea of the meaning behind the titles they’ve been given, why they were selected and brought together, or what Kyrios expects from them. When they awake from stasis, they find their city in ruins and everyone long dead. They’re alone—or so they think. But then the creatures start pouring out from underground, looking for them. They don’t stand a chance in a fight, and with limited supplies, they can’t run forever. All they know is that the creatures aren’t their only enemies, and there’s only one place they can turn. Kyrios beckons them toward Its Portal, but can It be trusted? In Its isolated shrine in the desert, they might find the answers they need—if they can survive long enough to reach it.
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ALBERT NOTHLIT wanted to become a writer long before he realized it was his way of connecting with others. There is something special in reaching out through words that carry a piece of his soul, and there is nothing better for him than hearing back from readers. It turns the product of what can be a very individual-centered profession into a shared experience, a chance to talk, to grow, and share. He firmly believes that the desire to create new worlds out of thoughts, memories, and emotions speaks to a greater truth within him. He still hasn’t figured out what that is, though. It’s going to take a lot more meditation, for which he unfortunately has no patience. He only knows that books changed his life, and that brightening someone else’s day with a story is the highest accomplishment he can think of achieving.
Albert currently lives in Mexico City, where he has somewhat reluctantly gotten used to the crowds. He shares a home with his husband and their sassy little dog named Link. His two other passions are gaming and running, although not games involving running because those can be boring. His favorite games are RPGs, and one of his guilty pleasures is watching eSports in pubs whenever the opportunity arises. He has an MSc in Environmental Engineering, which has turned out to be surprisingly helpful in creating postapocalyptic science-fiction worlds. Not that he thinks an apocalypse is unavoidable. He is a secretly hopeful man who thinks the future will be better—just no flying cars. Imagine the safety hazards.
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By ALBERT NOTHLIT
HAVEN PRIME
Earthshatter
Light Shaper
Published by DREAMSPINNER PRESS
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ISBN: 978-1-63476-568-8
Digital ISBN: 978-1-63476-569-5
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016901927
Published August 2016
v. 1.0
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Table of Contents
Blurb
Dedication
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Epilogue
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