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Voyage: Embarkation #9 Nanogen
Kal is ready to leave his strange home and is about to embark on a journey to even stranger worlds.
After four years of exile, he can finally escape into the metaxia, the unspace between universes, and explore alternate Earths.
Supremely advanced cultures and natural wonders of immeasurable beauty await him. However, there exist also worlds mired in social decay, and those filled with dangerous, exotic forms of life.
Armed only with defensive nanotech and a computer pad, Kal travels from one alternate Earth to another. Navigating the infinity of possibilities, he embarks on a new kind of voyage, a voyage along the catastrophe of notions.
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Kal arrives on a world called Aynsz, where he is arrested and charged with purposely infecting the planet’s entire population with a deadly plague, an event they believe occurred one week prior. This comes as shocking news, since Kal doesn’t remember ever having visited the world before.
Voyage: Embarkation Episode #9 "Nanogen" is about 11,900 words long.
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Voyage: Embarkation
Episode #1 "Setting Sail" - February 11, 2013
Episode #2 "Longing" - February 14, 2013
Episode #3 "Just a Game" - February 18, 2013
Episode #4 "Tria" - February 21, 2013
Episode #5 "Corporeal" - February 25, 2013
Episode #6 "Norselands" - March 14, 2013
Episode #7 "Duality" - April 11, 2013
Episode #8 "Benevolence" - May 9, 2013
Episode #9 "Nanogen" - June 6, 2013
Episode #10 "Unpossible" - June 27, 2013
After four years of exile, he can finally escape into the metaxia, the unspace between universes, and explore alternate Earths.
Supremely advanced cultures and natural wonders of immeasurable beauty await him. However, there exist also worlds mired in social decay, and those filled with dangerous, exotic forms of life.
Armed only with defensive nanotech and a computer pad, Kal travels from one alternate Earth to another. Navigating the infinity of possibilities, he embarks on a new kind of voyage, a voyage along the catastrophe of notions.
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Kal arrives on a world called Aynsz, where he is arrested and charged with purposely infecting the planet’s entire population with a deadly plague, an event they believe occurred one week prior. This comes as shocking news, since Kal doesn’t remember ever having visited the world before.
Voyage: Embarkation Episode #9 "Nanogen" is about 11,900 words long.
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Voyage: Embarkation
Episode #1 "Setting Sail" - February 11, 2013
Episode #2 "Longing" - February 14, 2013
Episode #3 "Just a Game" - February 18, 2013
Episode #4 "Tria" - February 21, 2013
Episode #5 "Corporeal" - February 25, 2013
Episode #6 "Norselands" - March 14, 2013
Episode #7 "Duality" - April 11, 2013
Episode #8 "Benevolence" - May 9, 2013
Episode #9 "Nanogen" - June 6, 2013
Episode #10 "Unpossible" - June 27, 2013
47 pages, ebook
First published June 6, 2013
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About the author
Zachary Bonelli
32 books28 followersI grew up in a small town in northern Illinois, west of Chicago. After graduating high school, I dual majored in English Literature and German Language at a small, Midwestern liberal arts college. After undergrad, I turned my eyes towards exploration, and spent many years in Japan, Thailand and Hawaii.
Nowadays, I live with my partner near Seattle, Washington, where I work in the gaming industry.
I love stories. I’ve long been fascinated by video games as a storytelling medium, and I love exploring different cultures, discovering the different underlying stories that different groups of people tell themselves, the stories that define who they are and how they perceive the world.
Nowadays, I live with my partner near Seattle, Washington, where I work in the gaming industry.
I love stories. I’ve long been fascinated by video games as a storytelling medium, and I love exploring different cultures, discovering the different underlying stories that different groups of people tell themselves, the stories that define who they are and how they perceive the world.
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May 18, 2013
IMAGINE
I'll just tell you EXACTLY what I think about Zachary Bonelli's work here.
It's great.
And better each time.
To be perfectly honest with you, even though I liked his series from the start, it took a little time for me to warm up to his world(s), his characters and his way of putting everything together. It all started to click when he introduced Kal's virtual doppelganger Tria: to me, this marks the point when his writing reached the level of his intentions, when the result was satisfactory on every point.
That's the thing with Bonelli. Expect more than a science-fiction story: there is a deeper meaning, a message, story after story. And what I like about it is that it is not always politically correct, always ready to be accepted by everyone, especially by people who are not ready to think. I'm thinking sexual orientation here. Or politics. Or war.
In episode n°9, the author clearly advocates a peaceful world in which war would be useless, even ridiculous. I wouldn't call it anti-military - though I wouldn't be shocked by that, quite the contrary - but clearly in the vein of John Lennon's song "Imagine", in other words something both incredibly naïve and actually quite deep.
On top of all this, in this episode I felt that Bonelli's writing has matured, has become more fluid and elegant. It reads flawlessly, and now I'm totally convinced. Though it took me one or two episodes to feel that way (but hey, believe it or not, the same thing happened to me for the series LOST, so no panic here...), now I'm definitely waiting for Embarkation's next installment.
I'm a fan.
I'll just tell you EXACTLY what I think about Zachary Bonelli's work here.
It's great.
And better each time.
To be perfectly honest with you, even though I liked his series from the start, it took a little time for me to warm up to his world(s), his characters and his way of putting everything together. It all started to click when he introduced Kal's virtual doppelganger Tria: to me, this marks the point when his writing reached the level of his intentions, when the result was satisfactory on every point.
That's the thing with Bonelli. Expect more than a science-fiction story: there is a deeper meaning, a message, story after story. And what I like about it is that it is not always politically correct, always ready to be accepted by everyone, especially by people who are not ready to think. I'm thinking sexual orientation here. Or politics. Or war.
In episode n°9, the author clearly advocates a peaceful world in which war would be useless, even ridiculous. I wouldn't call it anti-military - though I wouldn't be shocked by that, quite the contrary - but clearly in the vein of John Lennon's song "Imagine", in other words something both incredibly naïve and actually quite deep.
On top of all this, in this episode I felt that Bonelli's writing has matured, has become more fluid and elegant. It reads flawlessly, and now I'm totally convinced. Though it took me one or two episodes to feel that way (but hey, believe it or not, the same thing happened to me for the series LOST, so no panic here...), now I'm definitely waiting for Embarkation's next installment.
I'm a fan.
February 24, 2014
While other episodes in the series have explored deep topics (like the previous episode, Benevolence), this episode takes it even further. This time Bonelli focuses on War.
Ansyz is a planet divided by war. The entire structure of society revolves around the military. When Kal arrives, he is immediately arrested and accused of trying to kill everyone with a virus. In order to prove his innocence, Kal must help them stop the plague before it can kill.
This episode is very moving, however the format of a short episode is too small to really explore the magnitude of the issue. The emotional impact of the ending was also lessened because we never really got a chance to become attached to Dr. Olifvia. I suspect that the conflict at the end would have engaged me more.
In the bigger picture, this episode introduces our first glimpse of Kal's nemesis, as unyet un-named. Its obvious he has a grudge against Kal, and I have a feeling we will be seeing him again.
Ansyz is a planet divided by war. The entire structure of society revolves around the military. When Kal arrives, he is immediately arrested and accused of trying to kill everyone with a virus. In order to prove his innocence, Kal must help them stop the plague before it can kill.
This episode is very moving, however the format of a short episode is too small to really explore the magnitude of the issue. The emotional impact of the ending was also lessened because we never really got a chance to become attached to Dr. Olifvia. I suspect that the conflict at the end would have engaged me more.
In the bigger picture, this episode introduces our first glimpse of Kal's nemesis, as unyet un-named. Its obvious he has a grudge against Kal, and I have a feeling we will be seeing him again.
December 8, 2013
(Full disclosure: I was provided with a free copy of Voyage: Embarkation)
Falsely imprisoned for attempted genocide, Kal is stripped of his pad and thus denied his ability to flee through the metaxia. An entire world blames him for their month-short mortality, and if he can't find a cure, his own lifespan might be even shorter...
Corruption and conspiracy run rampant in the ninth chapter of the Voyage series. The lethality of mishandled technology and a glimpse at a mysterious new enemy make for an intelligent and intriguing adventure.
Falsely imprisoned for attempted genocide, Kal is stripped of his pad and thus denied his ability to flee through the metaxia. An entire world blames him for their month-short mortality, and if he can't find a cure, his own lifespan might be even shorter...
Corruption and conspiracy run rampant in the ninth chapter of the Voyage series. The lethality of mishandled technology and a glimpse at a mysterious new enemy make for an intelligent and intriguing adventure.
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