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Not Like Us
A war began when melting tundra uncovered an early species of horse and a flock of seabirds as old as humankind. The world forever changed and many of humankind didn't survive, but it enabled powerful AI to find a place in the world for the Androids and Robodogs to take over. While Jenna and Maddie survived the Earth's Holocene Extinction Event, strange men now watched them. Living in a never-ending drought, Jenna gets caught up in a high-tech war she doesn't understand. She yearns to complete her studies and travel to Mars, to begin a new life with Maddie. Yet a sense of unease lingers. Only when these strange men at the National Institute of Science main gates, the Watchers, enter the Institute during a crisis, does Jenna discover her privileged position. She strives to discover why this is so. But when a powerful bomb explodes, Jenna is driven by survival and forced to place her trust in the strange Watchers if she and Maddie are to survive and ultimately learn what it is to be Metamorphic.
110 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 29, 2024
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David Kernot
34 books7 followersDavid Kernot is a South Australian author who writes contemporary fantasy, science fiction, climate fiction, crime thrillers, and horror and has eighty short story publications in anthologies throughout Australia, the US, Canada, and the UK. His work has appeared in over 30 different printed publications worldwide.
He is the indie author of Gaia’s Guardians (2026), The Seventeenth (2026), Maralinga Winds (2026), Not Like Us (2024), Gateway Through Time (2020), Impossible Futures: The Collected Works (2020), Beam Rider (2015), The Search for Giselle (2014), Future Worlds (2014), Autumn Comes Slowly (2013), Panspermic Earth (2013), and The Early Years (2013).
He is the indie author of Gaia’s Guardians (2026), The Seventeenth (2026), Maralinga Winds (2026), Not Like Us (2024), Gateway Through Time (2020), Impossible Futures: The Collected Works (2020), Beam Rider (2015), The Search for Giselle (2014), Future Worlds (2014), Autumn Comes Slowly (2013), Panspermic Earth (2013), and The Early Years (2013).
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June 15, 2026
Maddie and her sister Jenna are followed everywhere by droid men at the National
Academy of Sciences campus, where they attend university.
When they were young, a virus from the melting permafrost, and war ran rampant around the Earth and destroyed most everything and everyone. The earth was dying.
Jenna wants to pilot a ship to Mars; she dislikes the droids. Maddie loves Gaia and the Earth, real animals and nature, she studies bio-molecular engineering. She thinks of the droids as people. Just machines like us, but different.
This is a story about the tragedy of a dying earth, and about two sisters discovering who they really are. There are good plot twists. An enjoyable read.
A good piece of science fiction with an eco message.
Academy of Sciences campus, where they attend university.
When they were young, a virus from the melting permafrost, and war ran rampant around the Earth and destroyed most everything and everyone. The earth was dying.
Jenna wants to pilot a ship to Mars; she dislikes the droids. Maddie loves Gaia and the Earth, real animals and nature, she studies bio-molecular engineering. She thinks of the droids as people. Just machines like us, but different.
This is a story about the tragedy of a dying earth, and about two sisters discovering who they really are. There are good plot twists. An enjoyable read.
A good piece of science fiction with an eco message.
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