“Stand… by for res… Please… …eipt.

  Rep… alone. …oming.

  …nding by… response. …confirm receipt.

  …eat, manki… not… they are…

  …response. Please confirm…

  Repeat… coming.

  Standing by for response. Please confirm receipt.

  Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.

  Repeat, mankind is not alone. They are coming.”

  —Auditory record of non-Synaptic transmission (undated Last Era, redacted source) in Last Era city of Strathlic, unearthed 1885 CE

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  Unknown location

  Unchanging days

  Two suns burned above a silver desert.

  Genophage has been a long, fun ride. (Longer than you might know--I drafted it in 2013!) If you're reading this, I hope it means you agree. Thanks for sticking with the story. If you enjoyed it, hopefully you want more people to happen across it, just as I do. If so, please consider rating or reviewing it, because ratings create visibility, which is lifeblood to a writer.

  Liber Telluris planned as a four-book series, with short stories to fill in the blanks of both backstory and secondary characters. That doesn't mean that more stories won't be able to be told in Tellus after the end of the series, only that the plotlines that have so mercilessly driven Tvorh, Dorsin, Senrii, Rosabella, Oralie, Eztli, Piotr, and other characters whom you'll soon meet will come to a close at the end of book four.

  Chimera (with Synapsis in a close second place,) is currently at 113,000 words and counting. I hope to have it fully drafted by the end of November 2020, with critical edits finished by the end of the year. Please stay tuned or let me know if you'd like updates on that one, too, or on the short stories that I'm putting together to link the two books.

  Ancient biotechnologies; yet more primeval secrets underlying them...

  And they are coming.