Sci-fi Story Time with Joshua: Lines

And so it begins…

We are going to be releasing a serialized novel, Lines: a tale of two families, for FREE.

A new chapter or long passage will appear every week on Thursday for you. If you like it or want to know the whole story, you can always pick up the full digital novel.

Why read it? Good question.

Here’s a brief synopsis. Without giving away the whole story, take a moment to read up on this brief overview of the plot. If you’re curious to learn more, you can read Chapter 1 for FREE, or purchase the entire story as an e-book.

We will be releasing the first 15 chapters for FREE on a weekly basis, but if you’re impatient, you can buy the book RIGHT NOW!

Lines: a tale of two families.

Treachery among the high-born Technocrats devastates an economic clan, but two sons remain: one prodigal and the other dutiful. The divided brothers reunite and set off to restore their family but discover a deeper treachery still. An ancient being wishes to undo the time-line and only the brothers with help from two unusual allies stand against the plot within plots. In a sense, Lines is Neuromancer meets Game of Thrones with a touch of Dune.

The economic clan Mercurio has been decimated by a war on Earth but the young heir to the family, Leon, is secretly hidden away with his forbidden love in a hibernation-station orbiting a Jovian moon. Only Leon's brother Denis survives the war on Earth, and while the lovers sleep in cryo-stasis, he seeks information on his enemies so when his brother returns they can regain power. During this time, the evolving artificial intelligence A.U.M (Artificial Universal Mind) is born and is thrust into the interplanetary network called the Hyper-net with no knowledge of itself, so a search for purpose begins.  

Denis creates an alliance with a character named Isa who has a separate living consciousness made of nano-machines in his head named Freak (short for frequency). They join Denis in his mission. Leon and his lover Dee are then awakened after an assassination attempt on their lives fails and so they go to Earth to find Denis.      

A.U.M, now actually calling itself Aum, comes across the scattered brothers while on its search for purpose and decides to help the Mercurios regain power. Then, on a data collecting excursion inside the Hyper-net, Aum meets its creator. The creator sees Homo-Cyberian (human) society as unworthy of existence and designed Aum to be transmitted through an hourglass wormhole back into the past so it can undo the timeline.

Leon, Dee and Denis discover the creator’s plot and a crusade to stop the timeline from being erased ensues. A love interest of Denis’s also joins the clan on their mission. In the end, knowledge about Aum’s creator leads directly back to the Mercurios’ bloodline and great sacrifices are made, but the timeline keeps on ticking forward.

Lines - Chapter 1

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Lines: A Tale of Two Families

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Bloodlines and timelines converge. An ancient being of flesh and tech plots to undo its mistakes that will unleash devastation for the human race. Two brothers, separated by war, must find each other to combat the threat. Even together, they might not uncover a way to save the world and time is running out…

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Ars longa, vitae brevis.

Lines, a serialized scifi novel. Chapter 5 is now available

Continue reading Lines, a transhumanist scifi novel by Joshua L.A. Jones

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