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Changelings: Insurgence
Changelings: Insurgence
Changelings: Insurgence
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When Commander Tauran's young son, Lausus, is diagnosed as one of the despised changeling mutants, Tauran believes the government assurances that his boy will be treated well. His less trusting wife, Beatra, however, flees with Lausus to a changeling planet.

After years of leading troops into battles against the mutants, while tire

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Release dateNov 15, 2023
ISBN9798988120353
Changelings: Insurgence
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Liam Corley

Liam Corley is an award-winning poet and scholar. Changelings Insurgence is his first work of fiction. He is a professor of American Literature at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His work on literature and war has been published in War, Literature, & the Arts, College English, and the Journal of Veterans Studies and has been supported with a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Liam is the author of Bayard Taylor: Determined Dreamer of America's Rise, 1825-1878 (Bucknell University Press, 2014). A debut poetry collection, unwound, came out from Middle West Press in 2023. His poems can also be found in Strange Horizons, Chautauqua, First Things, Badlands, Inlandia, The Line Literary, O-Dark-Thirty, and Wrath-Bearing Tree. Since 2004, Liam has served in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He has completed multiple deployments, including ones to Afghanistan and Iraq, and throughout the Pacific area of operations. He lives in Riverside, California, with his wife and four children.

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