Entry for G&S Hard Science Contest: An exploration of how magic could be explained by science in a world where witches, wizards, and dragons not only exist, but thrive. Science-based chapters interspersed with world-based stories.
As do so many things in science, it reached rudely beyond science into matters of personality and perspective. Was it better to know? That was the question facing young Emerson.
In 2193, deep-space mining depends on support from the two-bit dictator of Mars, but a rancher from Earth turned investigator uncovers a secret that threatens to bring down the entire system.
They came from distant stars aboard living machines, and crushed our civilization in a day. Broken, bloodied, and scattered across the globe, the last survivors must now rise up and uncover mankind’s dark legacy or be extinguished once and for all.
They came from distant stars aboard living machines, and crushed our civilization in a day. Broken, bloodied, and scattered across the globe, the last survivors must now rise up and uncover mankind’s dark legacy or be extinguished once and for all.
