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  • The Houses of the Curious

  • By: J.W. Bowie
  • Narrated by: Alexandra Hunter
  • Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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By: J.W. Bowie
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Summary

Gripping from the first page and the intensity never lets up. The intriguing world painted is imaginative and original." (Indies Today)

Finalist for the 2019 Book Excellence Awards Science Fiction Category.

Decades ago, a band of neurally augmented rebels, the Seventy-Seven, and their leader, Arthur Lannius, helped liberate a remote mountain town from the Perpetual Corporation in a great machine war. Eventually defeated, the Seventy-Seven scattered, and Lannius went into exile without a trace...except for a child.

When memories of a stranger burst into her mind, Aurora learns she is not an ordinary orphan of the war, but that she is augmented and that her past is more than it seems. In discovering her hidden augmentations, she accidentally awakens an old surveillance drone and reignites the dormant war.

Following the signal, Perpetual's mercenaries attack, forcing Aurora and her friends flee into the futuristic world beyond. There they discover a world where augmentations are the norm and imagination flows between people like magic. The future is full of wonder.

But, the safety of their world is short lived. Pursued by Perpetual for the memories that she holds, Aurora must choose a side in a secret war fought by machine armies and a pantheon of fantastic digital beings. Questioning both friend and foe, she wrestles with the memories buried in her mind as the key to a war fought across time.

From award-winning author John Bowie comes a new sci-fi adventure that will forever change the way you look at time and imagination. Book one in the Parallel series.

©2018 J.W. Bowie (P)2022 J.W. Bowie
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2019 Finalist for Book Excellence Awards Science Fiction Category

"Gripping from the first page and the intensity never lets up. The intriguing world painted is imaginative and original." (Indies Today)

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Story was good, in my opinion. I wasn't a huge fan of the way it was narrated.

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