Apparent Horizon

Apparent Horizon

Patrick Morgan

Patrick Morgan

With no tomorrow, what are we capable of today? On the eve of his best friend's wedding, Michael is warned by an old classmate, now a NASA scientist, that a gamma ray burst from a nearby exploding star will hit the Earth the following morning at 11:13 a.m. - an incident that will irrevocably destroy the ozone layer, disrupt the food chain, and ultimately prove cataclysmic for all life on the planet. Michael and the groom-to-be, Drew, laugh off the prediction as a demented joke. However, at precisely 11:13 a.m. the next day, a blinding light in the sky disrupts Drew's wedding. News media outlets dismiss the cosmic event as a harmless phenomenon, but Michael knows better. Wrestling with the burden of his truth, uncertain of how much time he has left or just what to do with it, Michael finds himself alienated from everything and everyone he's ever known. Under Drew's influence, Michael begins to transform his rather mundane life, previously shackled by powerlessness and fear, into something more unrestrained and ultimately dangerous. Feeling the weight of an unseen doomsday clock ticking his final days away, he pushes the moral envelope further and further on a quest for control over his own reality - no matter who might suffer for it. **
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Trinity

Trinity

Patrick Morgan

Patrick Morgan

A planet slowly rotates, one side perpetual sunlight the other perpetual darkness.Between these two sides lies the Divide, and the ancient city of Skala, the seat of humanity's high council. Skala is slipping inexorably west from the divide into the harsh desert of Hellinar and to its death.Over 1000km east, another city is on the verge of its birth, created with the aid of two ancient artificial intelligence cores.When one of the cores goes missing, a series of revealing events triggers, hinting at something rotten, and deeply linked to the founding of the new city.The loss of the core can't be kept under wraps forever – soon a plan is put into place – forcing the rapid completion of an advanced exploratory vehicle that may be the only hope of a recovery.Trinity is a story of family, forgotten history, advancing technology and a twisting series of events. Follow a collection of rich characters on interconnecting paths...
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