The Forever-ish Flame War by Niz Thomas (.ePUB)
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The Forever-ish Flame War by Niz Thomas
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Overview: Office Space meets Star Wars!
From a 13x Writers of the Future Award Nominee comes a humorous, far-future look back at today’s social climate.
Aboard the Imperial Starship, Huron: an extensive effort to catalogue the entirety of the existing galaxies of the universe. Each galaxy has quadrants, each quadrant has sectors, each sector contains evidence of past lives, catastrophes, and cosmic extinctions.
One such sector – Sector 55555 – eons ago contained a long-forgotten planet that was once called Earth.
Imperial Researcher Xarth chafes beneath the bureaucracy of the Imperial Starship. He prays that barren, boring Sector 55555 get assigned to him – an assignment that means months, perhaps years, of menial tasks, low-value work, and staying below the radar of the unpredictable and inquisitive Great and Mighty Emperor Anther.
Sector 55555 contains nothing worth cataloguing. And certainly nothing of interest to the Royal Court. Or so Xarth thinks.
But when a long-buried dispatch is unearthed – an argument between two “humans” in a conflict so lost to the sands of time it might as well have never happened – the Emperor takes notice. And Xarth is forced to report his findings to the Royal Court. A fate that, to him, seems worse even than that of the extcint “humans” he studies.
A novella equal parts hilarious and existential, with themes of cyberbullying, the mundanity of bureaucracy, and how, no matter how far into the future you go there will always be someone ready to shirk their duties. Explore the unique world of The Forever-ish Flame War before it goes extinct
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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