All Together, Live Forever

By Austen Rodgers

It's 2049, and humanity is dying.

However, there is hope we can return. The A.I. program known as the Human Intelligence Vaulting Experiment was designed to extract the memories, genetic codes, and knowledge from its patients. When the fallout of nuclear war passes, and the Earth is habitable again, it will clone and reintroduce the human species with all of our collective knowledge and give us a better second chance. Our only chance. But Desmon can't release the ship yet. Not with the way it's been talking.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austen Rodgers
• Release date: Feb 27, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370901661

Austen Rodgers

Austen Rodgers is a fantasy and science fiction fanatic, an author, and freelance editor. In 2015, he published his novel The Book of a Few, and in 2016 he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing for Entertainment from Full Sail University. He loves books with great character development, excellent worlds, and a dash of humor. Roleplaying games are a favored pastime, and he thinks that people who don’t like Star Wars don’t exist. Slaying warlocks isn't an issue either. You can visit him at www.austenrodgers.com

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All Together,

Live Forever

By Austen Rodgers

Copyright © 2018 by Austen Rodgers

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Edited by Caryn Pine

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The yellow smog was worse that morning. He could barely see his feet in the haze as he walked. Over the whirring of his respirator, he could hear the choking coughs of the city’s unseen people. He’d gotten lost twice, so he kept his left hand on the sleek skyscrapers and the rough lumber of boarded shops. It was a long walk to the lab, and Desmon dreaded it every morning.

He remembered what New York used to look like. Vehicles hummed about on the ground and in the air. Street artists filled the city with music. He missed the cheers and the laughs.

Within half an hour he found his way to the lab. From the outside, no one would have guessed that the building had been converted into a laboratory. The steel building had been used as a hangar for a drone delivery service before the Flash to the north had destroyed the last lab.

Desmon approached the red steel door and entered a combination of numbers and letters into the code-lock. The door clicked, and he pushed his way inside. Scuffed white tiles clashed with the bright shade of red paint