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Hello sentients,

I didn't expect to have to make this announcement, but here we are. When I got onto the Inkshares platform to crowdfund The Life Engineered it was because of the Sword & Laser Collection contest. However, despite having a very attractive grand prize of a full publication run with Inkshares, coaching from Gary Whitta and an interview with Sword & Laser, not to mention being part of the Sword & Laser collection of course, I had no aspirations to reach such heights. Even the concept of finishing in the top five and getting published seemed like a challenging goal but at least that was attainable.

So I entered and I campaigned and through the patience and support of, well, you fine intelligences, we managed to get The Life Engineered into the top five and I was ecstatic.

Then this happened today.

Go head and click on that link. Watch the video and come back. I'll wait.

So there we are. The Life Engineered will be one of two books, along with the awesomely titled 'Asteroid Made of Dragons', to premier in the Sword & Laser Collection. Dear readers, give yourselves a high-five, shake your own hand and slap yourself on the back because you did it. My congratulations to you for succeeding in this and my thanks for what you have given me. 

Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go have some chocolate to celebrate.

JF
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    I'm going to keep this short: we did it. 

    You did it.

    The Life Engineered, my little book about sentient robots in the future and their impending civil war came in fourth place in the Sword & Laser Collection contest. That is amazing.

    I'm ashamed to admit that I make a very poor writer as I can't find the words to explain the amount of overwhelming gratitude I feel for you guys. Friends, family and even complete strangers came together and because I said : "I have this crazy dream of winning this contest." they turned that fancy into a reality.

    The Life Engineered is getting a legitimate publishing run. I even have a publishing schedule. It is fancy.

    Right now, on my smart phone device thing, there is a list, backed up to the Cloud, with all of your names, email address and contribution level (Standard Construct or Advanced A.I.). This list will stay with me until the day the machines take over or that they put me away. This list is your permission slip to come over to me at a con, a book signing, whatever and shake my hand. No matter what, from this point on, you are my friend and I will always find a moment to recognize what you have done for me.

    Also, signed prints of robots. Because I promised. 

    I'm going to finish my model and raffle it off. Expect update photos on that progress.

    As my vision blurs with tears of gratitude, I'll leave you with the only thing I can come up with no matter how inadequate it feels: Thank you.

    JF

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      I looked around only to realize I had no eyes through which to look. I could “see,” but it wasn’t with any sense of sight. Waves of light didn’t travel through an ocular globe, eventually hitting cones and cylinders on the surface of a retina to be converted to images by my brain. Instead, the information was getting fed directly to me. Unfiltered, untreated, uncontrolled. I saw blue.

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        REBIRTH. END CYCLE - 5638 A.D.

        I looked around only to realize I had no eyes through which to look. I could “see,” but it wasn’t with any sense of sight. Waves of light didn’t travel through an ocular globe, eventually hitting cones and cylinders on the surface of a retina to be converted to images by my brain. Instead, the information was getting fed directly to me. Unfiltered, untreated, uncontrolled. I saw blue.

        It was as such for all my senses. I. . .

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