The first screams rippled through the neon-lit streets of Terra Prime just before dawn. Then came the crashes of shattered glass, the wails of disbelief and the hollow silence of those too stunned to react.
Millions awoke to find strangers in their mirrors. Faces they had never seen before; new jawlines, unfamiliar cheekbones, irises of impossible colors. The Intergalactic Biometric Repository, long considered the unbreachable vault of identity, had been hacked. And with it, the very concept of the self had been shattered.
High above the chaos, in the gleaming towers of the Megadome, Chief Enforcer Rael Voss stood frozen before his own reflection. His breathing was shallow, measured, as his fingers ghosted over an unfamiliar face. The deep blue eyes he had lived with for four decades were gone—replaced by a cold, reptilian gold. The scar that ran from his temple to his jawline had vanished. The weight of his identity, his entire existence, seemed to slip from his grasp.
"By the Void," he whispered.
Tobias Karlen. A real engineer and an imaginary space captain; a father of three boisterous boys somehow finds time to wrestle with the laws of physics and the even more perplexing laws of toddlerhood. When he's not helping his wife into changing diapers, Tobias escapes into the cosmos, crafting intergalactic adventures for his science fiction stories. His spaceship, the "Diapernaut," is notoriously slow but surprisingly well-equipped with snacks and a surprisingly effective anti-screaming device.
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