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    3632: Rubika
    3632: Rubika
    3632: Rubika
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    3632: Rubika

    By Ryan S. Fortney

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    Jakken is a man shot out of an airlock, left to die in the vacuum of space. All seems lost, until someone claiming to be part of his past, and part of his future plucks him straight out of certain death, and into her own ship. But Jakken only has minutes to figure out who he is, where they are, and what's about to happen to them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRyan S. Fortney
    Release dateDec 11, 2023
    ISBN9798215770061
    3632: Rubika
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    Ryan S. Fortney

    RYAN S. FORTNEY is an electronic musician, author and a designer, who has been writing since 2008. It all started with a haphazard idea, and a great big push from a dear friend named Ed. Over the course of a number of years, PaxCorpus was eventually self published, and then, subsequently, two more sequels.Later, and through many trials and tribulations, the journey continued.Ryan was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and has lived here most of his life. With a never-ending passion for fiction and the universe, it has always been his number one goal in life: To weave worlds, to tell stories, and to entertain. To explore the vast ocean of space through imagination, and imagination alone.

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      3632 - Ryan S. Fortney

      3632: Rubika

      A short story in an expanding universe.

      Ryan S. Fortney

      Smashwords Edition

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      Copyright © 2023 Ryan S. Fortney

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

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      "The rate of expansion of our technology will take us further than any of our species has ever dreamed. Beyond the Oort, beyond interstellar space, beyond all known

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