There Are No Magicians Here?
index of stories and fragments
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https://www.lulu.com/shop/malte-kosian/there-are-no-magicians-here/paperback/product-p6nrk25.html?q=There+Are+No+Magicians+Here&page=1&pageSize=4 **There Are No Magicians Here? Part One** Welcome to the year 3024. Aboard the gleaming Nova Arcis station, a monumental thousand-year retrospective broadcast is underway, peeling back the sanitized layers of history to reveal the forgotten, often bloody origins of humanity's expansion into the cosmos. In "There Are No Magicians Here? Part One", witness the chaotic dawn of the interstellar age, sparked by a single, impossible invention. When Mumbai physicist Amara Varna inadvertently folds spacetime in 2024, her Instantaneous Translocation Technology averts global warfare but thrusts mankind into a gruelling race for the stars. From the ruthless corporate dominion that ignites a desperate worker's uprising during the Martian Revolution, to the agonizing centuries civilization spends trapped by the limits of relativity during the "Stagnation of Speed," this first volume explores the profound triumphs and devastating sacrifices of our earliest pioneers. Experience the birth of the cooperative Asterion Collective Paradigm and watch as a unified humanity eventually shatters the light-speed barrier, fracturing into three distinct and competing colonial pillars. Delve into a meticulously crafted universe of hard science fiction, intense political manoeuvring, and the underlying philosophy of Perceptionism - the terrifying, beautiful reality that our universe is fundamentally shaped by the stories we dare to tell.
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