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A Partial History of the Universe
A fresh perspective on life and love out in the universe.
Earth Seven
Mortuis Luna
The Finite Void
Now all three in one place.
Koven Modi is a rookie field historian with The History Department at the University of Centrum Kath, the largest repository of learning and knowledge in the universe. He's having a bad week. He might get killed and his girlfriend might break up with him.
Welcome to the universe once we've finally conquered the urge to blow up everything. The last empire has fallen. The last megalomaniac has been laid to rest.
But a universe at peace is still a very dangerous place.
The History Department is responsible for all history: past, present and future.
To assist them, they operate Calcus Majoris, the largest probability calculator in existence. It calculates the odds of all significant positive and negative outcomes in the universe. The results help them carefully choose points of intervention in order to change the future. Sometimes it is a helping hand at just the right moment. Sometimes its murder.
But the universe is mostly demilitarized. The Federation of Planets was created after the Final War and acts to promote peace and resolve disputes fairly.
However there are planets in quarantine having met none of the criteria for contact. Planets in contact quarantine are all called Earth and given a numerical designation. For example, you are on Earth Five. What? Don't act surprised. Look around. Wars, famine, ecological disaster, murderous mythologies, sporks, Trump? And nobody comes over to visit.
Five trillion. Trillion with a 'T'. That's how many died in the Final War between the forces of Good and Evil versus the rest of us. Fortunately the rest of us won. But we came so close to destroying the universe that we had to make very serious changes.
Rusa is an android that is sentient but she doesn't realize it. When she is assigned to help Koven on his mission on Earth Seven she begins to experience things no android has ever done before. Is the calculation that you would prefer to be in the company of a certain person no matter where they are or what they are doing rather than be in your current circumstance, is this calculation the same as missing someone? Rusa believes it is.
Tanit just wants Koven to be a better boyfriend. She dreams of restoring an old spaceship she has orbiting Centrum Kath and setting her photon sails to cross the universe with Koven lecturing at the finer universities. Two semesters here, a semester there. The Glass Fields of Ki, The Gerald Supernova, all of the wondrous sites in the universe waiting for them. But Koven needs to step up and he's just not doing it. He want's to. Really he does. But, there was this thing that happened a long time ago. He won't ever tell you about it.
Professor Klept and his dog are missing. Calcus Majoris indicates there is a 43% probability that Professor Klept’s current experiment will cause the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies to collide. Tens of thousands of field historians are desperately looking for old man and his dog. But there is treachery at the University of Centrum Kath. The Sociology Department and the History Department are in a cold war and Klept is at the center of a push to increase Sociology Department funding.
Riots, an election for Chancellor of the university, and North Korean assassins? And why is Vegemite so important in the universe? Will Earth Five self-destruct and bankrupt the Sociology Department?
For these answers and a lot more answers than questions, A Partial History of the Universe is just what you need.
Get A Partial History of the Universe now before your planet self-destructs.
Earth Seven
Mortuis Luna
The Finite Void
Now all three in one place.
Koven Modi is a rookie field historian with The History Department at the University of Centrum Kath, the largest repository of learning and knowledge in the universe. He's having a bad week. He might get killed and his girlfriend might break up with him.
Welcome to the universe once we've finally conquered the urge to blow up everything. The last empire has fallen. The last megalomaniac has been laid to rest.
But a universe at peace is still a very dangerous place.
The History Department is responsible for all history: past, present and future.
To assist them, they operate Calcus Majoris, the largest probability calculator in existence. It calculates the odds of all significant positive and negative outcomes in the universe. The results help them carefully choose points of intervention in order to change the future. Sometimes it is a helping hand at just the right moment. Sometimes its murder.
But the universe is mostly demilitarized. The Federation of Planets was created after the Final War and acts to promote peace and resolve disputes fairly.
However there are planets in quarantine having met none of the criteria for contact. Planets in contact quarantine are all called Earth and given a numerical designation. For example, you are on Earth Five. What? Don't act surprised. Look around. Wars, famine, ecological disaster, murderous mythologies, sporks, Trump? And nobody comes over to visit.
Five trillion. Trillion with a 'T'. That's how many died in the Final War between the forces of Good and Evil versus the rest of us. Fortunately the rest of us won. But we came so close to destroying the universe that we had to make very serious changes.
Rusa is an android that is sentient but she doesn't realize it. When she is assigned to help Koven on his mission on Earth Seven she begins to experience things no android has ever done before. Is the calculation that you would prefer to be in the company of a certain person no matter where they are or what they are doing rather than be in your current circumstance, is this calculation the same as missing someone? Rusa believes it is.
Tanit just wants Koven to be a better boyfriend. She dreams of restoring an old spaceship she has orbiting Centrum Kath and setting her photon sails to cross the universe with Koven lecturing at the finer universities. Two semesters here, a semester there. The Glass Fields of Ki, The Gerald Supernova, all of the wondrous sites in the universe waiting for them. But Koven needs to step up and he's just not doing it. He want's to. Really he does. But, there was this thing that happened a long time ago. He won't ever tell you about it.
Professor Klept and his dog are missing. Calcus Majoris indicates there is a 43% probability that Professor Klept’s current experiment will cause the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies to collide. Tens of thousands of field historians are desperately looking for old man and his dog. But there is treachery at the University of Centrum Kath. The Sociology Department and the History Department are in a cold war and Klept is at the center of a push to increase Sociology Department funding.
Riots, an election for Chancellor of the university, and North Korean assassins? And why is Vegemite so important in the universe? Will Earth Five self-destruct and bankrupt the Sociology Department?
For these answers and a lot more answers than questions, A Partial History of the Universe is just what you need.
Get A Partial History of the Universe now before your planet self-destructs.
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Steve M.
11 books17 followersSteve here. I may or may not be from Earth. My earth mother believed that her baby was swapped in the hospital.
It would explain a lot.
I was born/landed in Mississippi but spent my formative years in Perth, Australia. I've been traveling ever since, having recently finished ten years in London. Some places just look better from a rear-view mirror. I'm from one of those.
My life is powered by curiosity mostly, along with an aversion to rules and a healthy disrespect for authority. Even as a kid I was attracted to the open window of the old abandoned beach house not far from where we lived. My earth mother calls me an 'over-educated delinquent'. While I disagree others do not. You can never have enough education.
I write crime thrillers from the criminal perspective because it's great fun to think like a criminal. Hardhearted, calculating, and mean. Who lives? Who dies? Who's to blame? Writing while smiling happens a lot with these stories. The bad ass who breaks down in tears with a gun pressed against his forehead. Such lovely ideas bring a smile to my face.
I also write Satirical Science Fiction because deep down I'm a smart ass. Many things don't make sense yet we do them anyway. Making fun of sacred cows is fun to do and acceptable if it's based in another galaxy. So I write about the chaotic mess that is the universe and the poor slubs who try to keep it running without another extinction event. I love considering 'what if', asking fundamental questions and examining alternatives to those we're taught/brainwashed to believe.
We must consider the possibility that the universe is broken. No, not at a molecular, spatial, or temporal level. But at a much more basic level, there is a crack in the logic of it. Doesn't that bring a smile? Are we just a simulation?
Finally I write Dystopian/Utopian fiction. It's my belief that we have been in a dystopia for many years now and it has become more apparent recently.
I've had many jobs in my life. Everything from making pizzas to being a longshoreman, to implementing overpriced IT projects for major corporations. Writing is the only job that doesn't suck. Well the marketing part sucks but the creative part is splendid and the reason I do it.
I live in Florida with Barbara and three cats: Lizzy, Casey, and Beebles. But I’m always planning our next move.
You can join the reader's group and get weekly drafts chapters of the novel in progress.
Just go to stevemauthor.com
It would explain a lot.
I was born/landed in Mississippi but spent my formative years in Perth, Australia. I've been traveling ever since, having recently finished ten years in London. Some places just look better from a rear-view mirror. I'm from one of those.
My life is powered by curiosity mostly, along with an aversion to rules and a healthy disrespect for authority. Even as a kid I was attracted to the open window of the old abandoned beach house not far from where we lived. My earth mother calls me an 'over-educated delinquent'. While I disagree others do not. You can never have enough education.
I write crime thrillers from the criminal perspective because it's great fun to think like a criminal. Hardhearted, calculating, and mean. Who lives? Who dies? Who's to blame? Writing while smiling happens a lot with these stories. The bad ass who breaks down in tears with a gun pressed against his forehead. Such lovely ideas bring a smile to my face.
I also write Satirical Science Fiction because deep down I'm a smart ass. Many things don't make sense yet we do them anyway. Making fun of sacred cows is fun to do and acceptable if it's based in another galaxy. So I write about the chaotic mess that is the universe and the poor slubs who try to keep it running without another extinction event. I love considering 'what if', asking fundamental questions and examining alternatives to those we're taught/brainwashed to believe.
We must consider the possibility that the universe is broken. No, not at a molecular, spatial, or temporal level. But at a much more basic level, there is a crack in the logic of it. Doesn't that bring a smile? Are we just a simulation?
Finally I write Dystopian/Utopian fiction. It's my belief that we have been in a dystopia for many years now and it has become more apparent recently.
I've had many jobs in my life. Everything from making pizzas to being a longshoreman, to implementing overpriced IT projects for major corporations. Writing is the only job that doesn't suck. Well the marketing part sucks but the creative part is splendid and the reason I do it.
I live in Florida with Barbara and three cats: Lizzy, Casey, and Beebles. But I’m always planning our next move.
You can join the reader's group and get weekly drafts chapters of the novel in progress.
Just go to stevemauthor.com
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February 13, 2018
Not Kindle Unlimited, got 1 on freebie day pretty sure then went looking, and this book was only 4.99 so considering the writer, topic, and that book 2/3 were almost that EACH, yeah...the Devil made me do it? Warning for 'bad' words, imaginary sex, satire, irreligious irreverance MUST READ NOW!!!!
As writer said at bottom of Earth Seven book....
Words your mother won't like? Definitely.
Imaginary Sex? Of course.
Satirical Viewpoints? Overwhelmingly
My Addendum: basically irreligious so beyond irreverant, BUT is your god so weak and ineffectual that even wiping people's minds would mean they would never form relgion again...with an almighty...oh ye of little {NO} faith, but whatever.
A fresh perspective on life and love out in the universe.
Earth Seven
Mortuis Luna
The Finite Void
Now all three in one place.
Koven Modi is a rookie field historian with The History Department at the University of Centrum Kath, the largest repository of learning and knowledge in the universe. He's having a bad week. He might get killed and his girlfriend might break up with him.
Welcome to the universe once we've finally conquered the urge to blow up everything. The last empire has fallen. The last megalomaniac has been laid to rest. But a universe at peace is still a very dangerous place.
The History Department is responsible for all history: past, present and future.
To assist them, they operate Calcus Majoris, the largest probability calculator in existence. It calculates the odds of all significant positive and negative outcomes in the universe. The results help them carefully choose points of intervention in order to change the future. Sometimes it is a helping hand at just the right moment. Sometimes its murder.
But the universe is mostly demilitarized. The Federation of Planets was created after the Final War and acts to promote peace and resolve disputes fairly.
However there are planets in quarantine having met none of the criteria for contact. Planets in contact quarantine are all called Earth and given a numerical designation. For example, you are on Earth Five. What? Don't act surprised. Look around. Wars, famine, ecological disaster, murderous mythologies, sporks, Trump? And nobody comes over to visit.
Five trillion. Trillion with a 'T'. That's how many died in the Final War between the forces of Good and Evil versus the rest of us. Fortunately the rest of us won. But we came so close to destroying the universe that we had to make very serious changes.
Rusa is an android that is sentient but she doesn't realize it. When she is assigned to help Koven on his mission on Earth Seven she begins to experience things no android has ever done before. Is the calculation that you would prefer to be in the company of a certain person no matter where they are or what they are doing rather than be in your current circumstance, is this calculation the same as missing someone? Rusa believes it is.
Tanit just wants Koven to be a better boyfriend. She dreams of restoring an old spaceship she has orbiting Centrum Kath and setting her photon sails to cross the universe with Koven lecturing at the finer universities. Two semesters here, a semester there. The Glass Fields of Ki, The Gerald Supernova, all of the wondrous sites in the universe waiting for them. But Koven needs to step up and he's just not doing it. He want's to. Really he does. But, there was this thing that happened a long time ago. He won't ever tell you about it.
Professor Klept and his dog are missing. Calcus Majoris indicates there is a 43% probability that Professor Klept’s current experiment will cause the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies to collide. Tens of thousands of field historians are desperately looking for old man and his dog. But there is treachery at the University of Centrum Kath. The Sociology Department and the History Department are in a cold war and Klept is at the center of a push to increase Sociology Department funding.
Riots, an election for Chancellor of the university, and North Korean assassins? And why is Vegemite so important in the universe? Will Earth Five self-destruct and bankrupt the Sociology Department?
For these answers and a lot more answers than questions, A Partial History of the Universe is just what you need. Get A Partial History of the Universe now before your planet self-destructs.
As writer said at bottom of Earth Seven book....
Words your mother won't like? Definitely.
Imaginary Sex? Of course.
Satirical Viewpoints? Overwhelmingly
My Addendum: basically irreligious so beyond irreverant, BUT is your god so weak and ineffectual that even wiping people's minds would mean they would never form relgion again...with an almighty...oh ye of little {NO} faith, but whatever.
A fresh perspective on life and love out in the universe.
Earth Seven
Mortuis Luna
The Finite Void
Now all three in one place.
Koven Modi is a rookie field historian with The History Department at the University of Centrum Kath, the largest repository of learning and knowledge in the universe. He's having a bad week. He might get killed and his girlfriend might break up with him.
Welcome to the universe once we've finally conquered the urge to blow up everything. The last empire has fallen. The last megalomaniac has been laid to rest. But a universe at peace is still a very dangerous place.
The History Department is responsible for all history: past, present and future.
To assist them, they operate Calcus Majoris, the largest probability calculator in existence. It calculates the odds of all significant positive and negative outcomes in the universe. The results help them carefully choose points of intervention in order to change the future. Sometimes it is a helping hand at just the right moment. Sometimes its murder.
But the universe is mostly demilitarized. The Federation of Planets was created after the Final War and acts to promote peace and resolve disputes fairly.
However there are planets in quarantine having met none of the criteria for contact. Planets in contact quarantine are all called Earth and given a numerical designation. For example, you are on Earth Five. What? Don't act surprised. Look around. Wars, famine, ecological disaster, murderous mythologies, sporks, Trump? And nobody comes over to visit.
Five trillion. Trillion with a 'T'. That's how many died in the Final War between the forces of Good and Evil versus the rest of us. Fortunately the rest of us won. But we came so close to destroying the universe that we had to make very serious changes.
Rusa is an android that is sentient but she doesn't realize it. When she is assigned to help Koven on his mission on Earth Seven she begins to experience things no android has ever done before. Is the calculation that you would prefer to be in the company of a certain person no matter where they are or what they are doing rather than be in your current circumstance, is this calculation the same as missing someone? Rusa believes it is.
Tanit just wants Koven to be a better boyfriend. She dreams of restoring an old spaceship she has orbiting Centrum Kath and setting her photon sails to cross the universe with Koven lecturing at the finer universities. Two semesters here, a semester there. The Glass Fields of Ki, The Gerald Supernova, all of the wondrous sites in the universe waiting for them. But Koven needs to step up and he's just not doing it. He want's to. Really he does. But, there was this thing that happened a long time ago. He won't ever tell you about it.
Professor Klept and his dog are missing. Calcus Majoris indicates there is a 43% probability that Professor Klept’s current experiment will cause the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies to collide. Tens of thousands of field historians are desperately looking for old man and his dog. But there is treachery at the University of Centrum Kath. The Sociology Department and the History Department are in a cold war and Klept is at the center of a push to increase Sociology Department funding.
Riots, an election for Chancellor of the university, and North Korean assassins? And why is Vegemite so important in the universe? Will Earth Five self-destruct and bankrupt the Sociology Department?
For these answers and a lot more answers than questions, A Partial History of the Universe is just what you need. Get A Partial History of the Universe now before your planet self-destructs.
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