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Rationality Zero / The Primary Protocol
The time is 1998.
The world is not what it seems.
An invasion is coming.
Michael Bishop is an Asset of the Facility- a job that comes with many strange perks. He is a man who never gets ill, who never pays taxes. He is effortlessly fit, and has a different woman every night of the week.
That is, when he is not on assignment.
When activated, Michael becomes Asset 108, a cyber-enhanced human who stands against the strange darkness that lurks at the edge of our world.
Armed with equipment that most would find impossible to comprehend, he is sent on missions both strange and deadly. Each dossier pits him against irrational creatures and beings- most with the power to unravel his sanity, or reality itself. It's never a simple job.
This job, however, is more complex than most. Mysterious unknown targets are fracturing reality, somewhere in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
The Facility has no other Assets in the area, and their telemetry is spotty at best. Without knowing what to expect, Bishop is activated, assigned to a cadre, and sent to the middle of nowhere.
What he finds there will lead him into a different world.
This collection is in a series called The Dossiers of Asset 108, and contains the stories Rationality Zero and The Primary Protocol. This series is itself the first strand in The Paean of Sundered Dreams, a multi-genre, universe-spanning array of tales with Lovecraftian themes.
These stories may be enjoyed as individual series, or as part of the Paean in its proper order. If you are a reader who is interested in The order that all these stories would be read in, at once, that order is as follows:
Rationality Zero
The Herald of Autumn
Collateral Damage
Handmaiden's Fury
On the Matter of the Red Hand
The Primary Protocol
Regarding Oaths and the Whispering Flame
Slave of the Sky-Captain
The Wormwood Event
Coming in 2015! "Aberrant Vectors."
The world is not what it seems.
An invasion is coming.
Michael Bishop is an Asset of the Facility- a job that comes with many strange perks. He is a man who never gets ill, who never pays taxes. He is effortlessly fit, and has a different woman every night of the week.
That is, when he is not on assignment.
When activated, Michael becomes Asset 108, a cyber-enhanced human who stands against the strange darkness that lurks at the edge of our world.
Armed with equipment that most would find impossible to comprehend, he is sent on missions both strange and deadly. Each dossier pits him against irrational creatures and beings- most with the power to unravel his sanity, or reality itself. It's never a simple job.
This job, however, is more complex than most. Mysterious unknown targets are fracturing reality, somewhere in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
The Facility has no other Assets in the area, and their telemetry is spotty at best. Without knowing what to expect, Bishop is activated, assigned to a cadre, and sent to the middle of nowhere.
What he finds there will lead him into a different world.
This collection is in a series called The Dossiers of Asset 108, and contains the stories Rationality Zero and The Primary Protocol. This series is itself the first strand in The Paean of Sundered Dreams, a multi-genre, universe-spanning array of tales with Lovecraftian themes.
These stories may be enjoyed as individual series, or as part of the Paean in its proper order. If you are a reader who is interested in The order that all these stories would be read in, at once, that order is as follows:
Rationality Zero
The Herald of Autumn
Collateral Damage
Handmaiden's Fury
On the Matter of the Red Hand
The Primary Protocol
Regarding Oaths and the Whispering Flame
Slave of the Sky-Captain
The Wormwood Event
Coming in 2015! "Aberrant Vectors."
440 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 31, 2015
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About the author
J.M. Guillen
23 books216 followersJM Guillen was just an average Joe when he worked at a Necromancy factory in 2018. After his job was outsourced to Mexico, he has been driven irrevocably mad and gifted with strange, terrible power.
Today he spends his time creating sentient velociraptors in his secret lair and summoning fell powers best left alone. His goal of absolute world domination is almost within his grasp. Soon, nothing will stop him.
Occasionally, he writes.
Today he spends his time creating sentient velociraptors in his secret lair and summoning fell powers best left alone. His goal of absolute world domination is almost within his grasp. Soon, nothing will stop him.
Occasionally, he writes.
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October 29, 2017
kindle unlimited, still seeing lovecraft, shroom trip, just a bit reminded of Logsdon Ian Dex, yeah basically a really good/bad shroom trip, this one is not listed on amazon but just read 1 and 2 separately, not sure if link bad or no longer available, see reviews for both books separately here on gr
Rationality Zero (The Dossiers of Asset 108)
The Primary Protocol (The Dossiers of Asset 108 Book 2)
A Grasping Darkness: The two first stories of Asset 108
Aberrant Vectors (The Dossiers of Asset 108 Book 3)
Cascading Error:Critical (The Dossiers of Asset 108 Book 4)
Rationality Zero (The Dossiers of Asset 108)
The Primary Protocol (The Dossiers of Asset 108 Book 2)
A Grasping Darkness: The two first stories of Asset 108
Aberrant Vectors (The Dossiers of Asset 108 Book 3)
Cascading Error:Critical (The Dossiers of Asset 108 Book 4)
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