Thirty (Exotiqa World Book Two)

By M. Black

Following the actions of Thirty—the love interest of Maci from Exotiqa—the reader will catch a glimpse of what life was like inside of the ImaTech factory for Flexes and how he fell in love with Maci.

Fans of Configured, Freelancer, Blade Runner, Divergent, iRobot, The Glitch, and robot cyberpunk dystopia will love this world with two young but strong female heroines who must save the fragile system crumbling around them. This story will even satisfy those looking for something with more philosophical themes and is a perfect fit for the sci-fi, artificial intelligence, and robotics interested readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ami Blackwelder
• Release date: May 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463796818

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THIRTY

by M.Black

Exotiqa World: Book 2

ISBN: 9780463796818

Smashwords Edition

Copyright © 2015 by Ami Blackwelder

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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Complete series:

1- Exotiqa

1.5- Thirty

2- Sphere

Copy edited by Story Gnomes

Proofread by Eloquent Enraptures

Beta-Read by Chuck Allen

Cover art by Eloquent Enraptures

ENTER TOMORROW with the second dystopian story by author M. Black. THIRTY is a YA Robot Cyberpunk Dystopian novelette. A prequel to EX-OTIQA, and will appeal to a vast array of audiences and is the second book in the Exotiqa World, prequel to the first release.

Following the actions of Thirty—the love interest of Maci from Exotiqa—the reader will catch a glimpse of what life was like inside of ImaTech for Flexbots and how he fell in love with Maci.

Fans of Divergent, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner, iRobot, and A.I. will love this dystopian world with two young but strong female heroines who must save the fragile system crumbling around them. This story will even satisfy those look-ing for something with more philosophical themes and is a perfect fit for the sci-fi, artificial intelligence, and robotics interested readers.

Flexbot dialogue is told in Synchro Let text and human dialogue is told in Baskerville text.

Book Cover by KnightmanProductions.com & Eloquent Enraptures Publishing. Permissions given by Logan Knight, creator of original image.

Table of Contents

Birth

Quarters

Orientation

Lounge A

Training

InterLock

The Pod

The Factory

Bedtime

Author Biography:

Birth

I open my eyes and survey a dark industrial room. There are many like me hanging high from silver ca-bles that dangle off the high-beamed ceilings. Other eyes open around me and just stare ahead at me, or at the dank walls.

Wood beams above look old and dusty, no doubt from the black conveyor belt underneath me. Dust particles brush up and hit my eyes. Internal sensors register the impurity and I blink. I can blink, and wash out the particles.

Where am I? Who am I?

I close my eyes and see data in ones and zeros. Thousands of petabytes inside of me, processing through me. I pull up files and read them in my visual display. How did I just do that?

Born February 10th on a Tuesday, in the year of 2054 at 0700. My creator is Russell Wagner, head of ImaTech Cor-poration established in 2040. Artificial intelligence inside of Flexbot technology commenced on 2050.

I shake, my body wiggles and I see my bare feet below wrestling with the air. Passing a vertical metal support beam, I catch a reflection. My reflection? Dark eyes like mud, mud with white sand. Skin so naked and tan…and soft. My fingers play with my arm, flexing in the reflection. I’m muscular