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Train Library!
Since Peter has failed at his duty of librarian, Ignis has very graciously taken on this duty. Ash and Feanor have built shelves at the front of the standard carriage where a portion of chairs went mysteriously missing (i.e. Tony destroyed them). Anyway, so Ignis is keeping track of what books are available to borrow, who they originally belong to, and who currently has them.
[Please reply below with the name and description of any book your character is willing to loan to the library. Anyone who wants to use a book from this list may do so and it's simply handwaved that they're borrowing it.
If for any reason, your character is being a dick and purposefully not returning a book, give me or Ignis' mun a heads up. (But limit this please).]
[Please reply below with the name and description of any book your character is willing to loan to the library. Anyone who wants to use a book from this list may do so and it's simply handwaved that they're borrowing it.
If for any reason, your character is being a dick and purposefully not returning a book, give me or Ignis' mun a heads up. (But limit this please).]
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Book Title: Not Quite Sherlock Holmes
Book Description:
Huge book that is not quite Sherlock Holmes. The names and places are different than the stories he knows. The mysteries are practically the same though and the character essentially the same.
Character's Name: Conan Edogawa
Book Title: Tiptoe
Book Description:
A novel about a young teen called Pip. Pip lives with his aunt in the middle of nowhere. There aren't many other teens around and he spends much of his time reading old mystery books.
Walking home from the small schoolroom in the nearby village one day he hears a strange sound in the woods, being a curious kind Pip follows it and is plunges into a mystery that will test everything he knows!
Character's Name: Conan Edogawa
Book Title: The Silence of Truth
Book Description:
A high tech mystery novel about a group of detectives working in a futuristic city. It is actually four short stories but follows a team of free lance detectives as they tackle plots and mysteries that most others would give up on. It has plenty of amazing gadgets to read about and is fast paced and in many places quite funny.
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Book Title: Behind the Shadows
Book Description: The book is a crime thriller called "Behind the Shadows". It follows a young woman called Miran who, whilst studying off planet gets the devestaing news that her family have been killed. She returns home to sort their affairs to discover that everything is not as it seems. She discovers a conspiracy that challenges everything she thinks she knows about her family.
Behind the Shadows is all about family secrets and great betrayal. Miran is young and idealistic believing in truth and justice. What she discovers about her family and their crimes shakes her world but the novel puts a big emphasis on individual actions and responsibility. Miran can't change the harm caused by her family but she can make sure that she herself brings good to the worlds.
Book Title: Rust
Book Description: A hard hitting novel about two robots who once belonged to an explorer. They travelled the stars on adventures that are told through flashbacks. Now the explorer is old and sick and the robots like in storage with the rest of his belongings.
It is clearly written to lobby for robot rights and the point is hammerered quite heavily at times. It asks questions about sentience and what makes a person. The robots aren't A.I but they seem to have a level of awareness and ability to make connections with each other and the people they come across.
Book Title: HaZeL
Book Description: When captain Bosni's ship goes down in a battle against an alien enemy she survives but is in a critical condition. As part of the attempts to save her, her consciousness is transfered into a technological realm where she meets HZL89 a young clone who's mind us being used to help Bosni come to terms with what has happened and asist her recovery.
At it's heart HaZeL is a story about generational friendship. Bosni has lived a long and exciting life and seen the universe. HZL89 has never been outside the hospital where she works as a companion to counter loneliness and provide friendship to patients.
Their stories are interweved through the novel and it is at times very sad as Bosni comes to term with the loss of many of her crew. The ending is bittersweet as Bosni recovers enough to be woken up, the two say their goodbyes and are both strengthened by their time together.
Book Title: No Stone Unturned
Book Description: A fantasy novel about a farmer whose son is snatched by monsters. He goes on a journey to find him and bring him home.
Essentially it is a martial arts/swordart novel full of brutal fights as the man fights his way through a land of monsters and war. It is an easy read despite the many fight scenes and the main themes are doing whatever it takes, no matter how terrible, to keep those you love safe. The child is rescued and the novel ends with them returning home- though it reflects at the end that the home they long for- that of safety and innocence- is no more after everything they have been through and done.
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Book Title: Diary of a Voidtrecker
Book Description: A travel journal. It is typed but uses a font designed to make it look old fashioned, as if it were a diary from years long past.
It is written by a wealthy young woman who has set out on a journey to travel through the worlds. She has a great interest in botany. It is clear pretty quickly that though this woman is indeed trecking through the void she is not doing so on the Voidtrecker Express. Instead she seems to be on some kind of tourist cruise train. Expansive ballrooms, fine dining, her own personal carriage.
There are many notes on various worlds, all different and strange. If Lightning reads through it she will find a whole five chapters on Ciyesia and the healing flowers. The Weary Wanderer is mentioned but there is no mention of Albany or the children, indeed the proprietor of the inn is called Mehdi and is a grizzled farmer who grumbles good naturedly but is happy to share his knowledge of the mountain with the author.
There are other worlds and places mentioned, most of her stories are about flowers and plants and biology. It is a fascinating read if that is what you are interested in.
Book Title: When the Voidtrecker Came to Town (graphic novel)
Book Description: It tells the story of Kierce, a teenager who lives with his little sister (Ama) and his dad in a city. The city is pretty vaguely described, but has a reasonable technology level and the characters depicted in the pages span a large range of races and species.
The novel starts one early morning, Keirce and Ama bickering over breakfast, their dad telling them to knock it off and then them all leaving to work and school. Kierce walks Ama to school before getting on a flying transporter shuttle to his own school.
He is in maths class when the lesson is interrupted. A woman in a purple hoodie bursts into the room and announces that they have to evacuate. The teacher is not too cooperative but she insists, claiming that if they do not leave they will die. Kierce and his friend Siana get up and announce that they are going to do what she says. The class follows.
They rush out of the building not a moment too late as just as they clear the grounds a huge craft crashes into the school, exploding.
An alien, aggressive force has invaded. The novel follows Kierce and Siana as they try and make their way to the school their younger siblings are at. At the through the story you see voidtreckers. A team of orange hoodie wearing people trying to clear a bridge of a crashed transporter, desperately trying to save the people inside. Red wearing people fighting huge robotic creatures.
They arrive at the school to find it already destroyed. Most of the children are outside already but Ama is no where to be found. Just as it seems all is lost a blue hoodie-wearing man stumbles out of the wreckage, Ama in his arms. The siblings are reunited, the aliens defeated and they follow the void treckers out of the city where an emergency camp is being constructed. It ends with them reuniting with their father and learning that though unfortunately not everyone made it out alive it was doubtful anyone would have survived if it wasn't for the voidtreckers, the attack wasn't by a known enemy, it had come out of the blue.
It has a post script.
When the Voidtrecker comes to town is not a true story, but is based on the events of many true moments. The Voidtreckers are there to help you, if you see one know your world is in danger. Just like Kierce and Ama and their friends you must listen and do what they say. They are there to help. Hopefully the Voidtreckers will never need to come to your town, but if they do. Be ready, be smart and know they will do their best to save you all.
Wow. He just came out here to have a good time, and honestly he's feeling so attacked right now
Book Title: Electronic Structure and the Properties of Solids: The Physics of the Chemical Bond
Book Description:
(pulled from Amazon:) In this comprehensive and innovative text, Professor Harrison (Stanford University) offers a basic understanding of the electronic structure of covalent and ionic solids, simple metals, transition metals, and their compounds. The book illuminates the relationships of the electronic structures of these materials and shows how to calculate dielectric, conducting, and bonding properties for each. Also described are various methods of approximating electronic structure, providing insight and even quantitative results from the comparisons.
Book Title: Not!Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Book Description: The names and places have changed but the story about a young boy from an unloving family, who was the sole survivor of an evil wizard goes to a magic school. It is beautifully illustrated at least which should make up for it not being quite the right book.
Book Title: The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book
Book Description: (pulled from Amazon) With The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book, all you need to do is gather a few household items and you can recreate dozens of mind-blowing, kid-tested science experiments.
Book Title: The Princess Bride
Book Description: (pulled from Amazon) Beautiful, flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley, the farm boy, and when he departs to make his fortune, she vows never to love another. So when she hears that his ship has been captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts - who never leaves survivors - her heart is broken. But her charms draw the attention of the relentless Prince Humperdinck who wants a wife and will go to any lengths to have Buttercup. So starts a fairytale like no other, of fencing, fighting, torture, poison, true love, hate, revenge, giants, hunters, bad men, good men, beautifulest ladies, snakes, spiders, beasts, chases, escapes, lies, truths, passion and miracles.
Book Title: A Simple Introduction to Chemistry
Book Description: (pulled from Amazon:) This slim concise book is for those who starting their first chemistry course, and those who wish to understand basic chemistry. This books communicates understanding and helps the reader to comprehend the ideas in chemistry, rather than to learn by rote.
Book Title: Advanced Chemistry (Advanced Sciences)
Book Description: (pulled from Amazon:) For all mainstream AS and A Level specifications. No matter which specification you choose to follow, Advanced Chemistry provides comprehensive coverage of all the content you need to know; this revised and updated second edition will remain relevant even when specifications change. This indispensable guide takes a thorough and engaging approach to AS and A Level Chemistry.
Book Title: Our Void Adventure!
Book Description: A book called "Our Void Adventure!". It is a picture book about a little girl whose family are going on holiday to a different world!
Emi is very excited, today she is going on holiday! But no normal holiday to a museum or a beach. No Emi and her mum and her dad and her little brother Noel are going to a whole different world!
Emi is very excited but a little bit scared! Come and join Emi on her grand adventure!
It's a bit vague on the details, there is mention that they have been planning this trip for a very long time and that she had to go to special lessons on the weekend for the last month. They arrive at a big shiny building and are met by a woman with a badge that shimmers like the void.
This is the bit Emi is scared of but her mum tells her that it will be fine and they will be on the platform soon! Emi holds her mums hand very tightly as her dad carries Noel. They arrive in a big comfy room and she sits with Noel while her parents fill out some forms. It's sort of boring and Emi is sleepy even though she had been too excited to sleep the night before! She finds herself falling asleep.
She wakes up in her dads arms, on a platform! It's all foggy and there's a train! Void Adventures!
They travel to a world with lots of interesting creatures, Emi makes friends and has a whole load of adventures throughout the book. Soon it is time to go home! They arrive at a platform and they leave the train, Emi waves goodbye to the train staff as her and her family step back through the barriers.
The end!
Book Title: Though the Stars Still Shine
Book Description: It is a young adult action adventure book and follows two teenage girls from the colony of Zi'pa'lo. Not much about the culture or peoples is explained--much like an real world YA novel set in its own country of origin wouldn't bother explaining cultural norms. Indeed it might take Peter a few chapters to realise the two girls are a scaled alien species.
The action starts early, they get captured by raiders and taken off world. They fight through a whole galaxy to find each other and find their way home again. The action comes thick and fast with many fighter craft battles, the love story weaved in around the action. Both girls learn their own strengths and once they find each other they learn how to support each other and work together to get home. It has a happy, triumphant ending.
Book Title: In case this is the end...
Book Description: An often funny yet heart wrenching story about two young soldiers, Kal and Martha who are stationed at different frontiers in an intergalactic war. It is told through transmissions between them, reading like letters. Through their letters they tell a story of a brutal war, their fears for the future and their hope that one day they will live together in peace.
All the action is told through them so it is not always easy to understand the bigger picture, but that seems to be the point, the story is focused on their experiences and so there is little context about the war or the world.
It ends with a final letter chain between them on the eve before a huge battle of all frontiers. The ending is ambiguous and downbeat.
Book Title: Secret Diary of an unfortunate spy
Book Description: This novel is set in a world similar to modern day earth, though some of the technology and gadgets are more advanced. It follows Noe, a young spy in spy school. Except he is perhaps the worst spy ever, not because he's not competent or hard working but because of his rotten luck and terrible clumsiness.
It is told mostly in diary form, the book is full of clues and puzzles to solve. Parts of the diary are written in code, clues for cracking it are scattered through the diary.
The worst in his class he is disappointed when he is given the most boring spy assignment for his summer project, keeping an eye on an old woman's wandering cat. However all is not as it seems and soon he is in a tangled web of conspiracy. Can the clumsy hero save the day?
Of course he can.
Book Title: Hunter
Book Description: is a young teen fantasy story about a young ranger called Alba and her hunting companion owl. Alba lives deep in the forest with her people, who traditionally bond to a hunting creature to maintain partnership and balance in the forest.
However something is going wrong, animals and humans alike are getting sick and the young rangers of the forest decide to spread far and wide to try and find a cure. Alba and her owl go on a perilous journey deep into the forest to find the source of the sickness and save those they love.
It is fast paced and exciting, Alba and owl find many friends along the way and overcome dangers together. Their bond is strong and together they are able to save their forest.
Book Title: Our Place in the Sky
Book Description: A dying planet, an arc that will go to the stars in search of a new home. Three siblings desperate attempt to win a place on that arc. Together.
In a world where the seas are boiling, the mountains tremble and trees are a distant dream of the past there are arcs, ships that leave the ruined planet to the stars, to new worlds where there is good air, plentiful food and harmony.
But to get on an arc you have to have money, lots of it. Or you can undertake the trials, the arcs will take the strong, the brave. The trials are dangerous but the prize is great. Anyone can take the trials, they are held annually in every city left.
Alaia, Jaylah and Noe are triplets, they are sixteen and finally old enough to enter the trials. They enter and are determined to get a place on the arc, whatever it takes.
Our place in the sky is brutal and violent in places, but the main theme is family and leaving no one behind.
Book Title: In this house you may scream
Book Description: (cw: horror, existential nonsense, trapped conciousness) In a far future world it has been discovered how to transfer peoples consciousness'. To take a persons essence, their mind and senses and place them in something else. Though there were ways it was used for good, transferring consciousness into artificial bodies after traumatic accidents for example it was also used most often as punishment for the most heinous crimes. The process was called 'pebbling', the idea of trapping a soul in a pebble.
Wilder was a prisoner of war in a far off country, pebbled over a hundred years ago and now his soul released back to his side in an artificial body. Kali was pebbled twenty years ago for a robbery gone wrong, now released into her body brought out of suspended animation. Kason was pebbled six years ago for a crime he did not commit.
Once released they are sent to live with a woman whose job it is to rehabilitate criminals back into the world.
The horror in the story all comes from the past and the concept of pebbling. The actual story is one of recovery, redemption and friendship as three very different people learn how to live in a world they have not been part of for a long while and come to terms with their past.
Not one to read at night!
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Book Title: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Book Description: Doomed love story where two should-be enemies from rival houses fall in love with tragic results.
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Book Title: Through the Woods
Book Description: A dark fairy tale about a teenager called Elisia who, after an argument with her family, strays off the path on a journey through the woods and finds herself in a faerie realm.
Finding herself in the court of a dark Fae queen Elisia must navigate the scheming and dangers of a world that is not her own to try and find her way back home.
A story of unconventional bravery and the bonds of family. Elisia is a resourceful young woman who is not afraid to acknowledge her faults and she grows through the story as she fights to return to those she loves.
Book Title: Falling Star
Book Description: Another teen fiction book. Jin belongs to an alien species who have been oppressed and enslaved by the main power of the galaxy for as long as anyone can remember. He lives on a mining planet and it is all he has ever known.
But one night, as he is returning to the sleeping pods he sees a light hurtling down from the sky. He goes to investigate and finds a young woman in a wrecked space craft. He hides her and nurses her back to health. She is part of a resistance fighter group and Jin soon finds his life changing forever.
A story about friendship and fighting oppression and tyranny. About the sacrifice required to make a difference.
Book Title: Ten Thousand Blades: The Choice of Swords
Book Description: Set in a fantasy empire where monsters prowl, citizens are still able to live in relative peace thanks to the efforts of the Ten Thousand Blades of the empire.
The ten thousand blades are an army, but they are also the swords themselves. Magical swords that choose a wielder. Every child on their twelfth birthday must visit the hall of swords and if they are chosen they are admitted to the training school in the capital of the empire.
This is both an honour and a sacrifice for the ten thousand swords give up all ties to kin and land, dedicating themselves only to the protection of the land.
Amir and Hassa are twins who fear their birthday. Neither fears being chosen, for they have been brought up to know that it is the duty of all to go if they are called by the swords, but they fear being the one left behind.
When they are both chosen their mother weeps but the twins are relieved. The story follows their training through their first year. It seems that it is the first in a series.
Book Title: See Every Sunrise
Book Description: Ben is an apathetic young man. He is close to dropping out of school, fallen out with his friends, barely speaks to his parents. He has dropped his hobbies and has no interest in anything.
Until the night he gets abducted by aliens.
F'ijuljik never quite fit in. They try very hard but can never live up to the expectation of their commanders. So when it is announced that one person will be chosen to infiltrate a planet by taking on a host body they are not surprised it is them.
Their job is to observe for one year and report back on this planet Earth. Were humans dangerous? Did they deserve protecting? Should they be saved.
Though Ben and F'ijuljik don't get on initially for obvious reasons Ben soon realises that this strange entity residing inside him and speaking in his mind is their to judge mankind and it is his job to prove it is worth saving.
So off Ben goes, to show F'ijuljik the best of humanity. It is a quest that will take him to the far reaches of the earth.
And along the way he and F'juljik find they have as much in common as they have different. And Ben learns to connect with people in ways he never was able to before.
The ending is heart wrenching and bittersweet as Ben saves earth, to learn that neither he nor F'ijuljik were ever going to survive this merging of selves. But it ends on a hilltop with Ben, F'ijuljik and the friends they made along the way watching the alien crafts leave Earth forever.
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Book Title: Merry Little Void Train
Book Description: This is an illustrated chapter book about a green and magenta train who travels through the void to make new friends. She is driven by a long eared rabbit by the name of Kheli. Kheli has a map to the best carrots in the multiverse. Her dream is to find them and be a hero among her people.
Her and the train go on a great adventure, making many friends along the way! It is simply written but entertaining.
Book Title: Scalewood
Book Description: The Gvua are a race of small lizard like humonoids who live a peaceful existence. Siku is bug farmer who lives on the outskirts one of the towns. One day her life is changed forever when a war faring race of aliens - who from description seem very similar to Earth's red pandas, except sentient and bloodthirsty - attack from the skies.
The Gvua are hunted and scattered, Siku must fight for not just her survival but the survival of her entire people.
Book Title: Ten Thousand Blades: An Empire Shattered
Book Description: Book four of the Ten Thousand Blades saga. Amir and Hassa have found themselves on the opposites side of a brutal civil war that is splitting the empire. Both sides believe the other to be traitors to the emperor himself and it looks like there is no way to close the schism.
Will their love for one another be enough to breach the ideological divide or will their loyalty to the ten thousand blades win out?
Book Title: My thrilling career as a Void Trecker. The Best Seller By Art Divino.
Book Description: This is half a memoir and half a how to novel about voidtrecking, meeting new cultures and being a hero.
Except it will be clear to anyone who has spent any time in the void, and especially to those who have done missions in the past, that Art Divino has never been a voidtrecker. Has no idea of the void of how the void works and their idea of alien cultures and peoples are strange at best.
However one thing is clear and that is that Art Divino believes their own hype.
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Book Description: Medical textbook about molecular biology
Book Description: Medical textbook about anatomy (covering human and many non-human species)
Book Description: Medical textbook about a huge range of diseases
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BookMagazine Title: Build Your Own VoidCraft: Issue OneBookMagazine Description: This is a model/hobby magazine and indeed comes with parts to start making a voidcraft. From the picture it is a train, a steamtrain even though the picture on the front has the train in a dark green. The starter kit comes with a selection of different glue for different materials and the start pieces to make the engine. The material is not quite metal, it's a bit more flexible than that. This weeks part is mostly figuring out what connects to where and gluing the pieces down.The magazine claims that the train will have moving parts and even a miniature engine by the time they are done.
Magazine Title: Voidcraft Through The Ages: Issue One
Magazine Description: This is a history enthusiasts magazine. It indeed shows the first ever voidcraft, a metal sphere, large enough to fit a few people with stores but very little else in the way of comfort.
It was invented by a pair of sisters from world system #1- the system that discovered the void in the first place though it is sadly bereft of information about that discovery and instead focuses on the sisters lives. Jifti and Byin. They grew up in space colonies, became engineers in the space fleet before falling into the research about the newly discovered void and the potential to visit not just other planets and systems but different multiverses completely.
Their first prototype was simple and was widely considered to have worked- indeed the craft was found in another multiverse- considered a mystery for almost two centuries until it was eventually traced back to system #1. Sadly the sisters didn't survive their maiden voyage, their bodies were buried with honour for their advances to science and void travel was tabled for practically another generation.
Magazine Title: Great Trains of the Void: Issue One
Magazine Description: This one is also a 'feature of the week' magazine and the first issue looks at a Voidcraft called Destiny. They seem to be a species of large mice and their train looks almost like a model train. Yet they are one of the best crisis team in the multiverse. They are pretty good at subtle work but focus mostly on humanitarian aid rather than fighting. They are often the first at the site of a crisis and focus on helping people until the agents of the specific world are ready and prepared to take over.
There's quite a few pictures and examples of their good deeds. Everything from delivering food to colonists on a barren asteroid to maintaining medical supply lines across a mountain range.
MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS - 2nd Issues
Magazine Title: Build Your Own Voidcraft
Magazine Description: This week's issue focuses on attaching the wheels to the train, it looks like they will be moving parts and it is quite fiddly work. Interestingly the wheels can be made narrower or wider and there is a short article about track gauges and how inter world trains need to be able to travel on different size tracks.
Magazine Title: Voidcraft Through The Ages
Magazine Description: This issue focuses on the first successful void travel by living people, how after many failed and tragic experiments a scientist called Bhifve had discovered the apparatus needed to allow people to travel through the void, to see other worlds and be able to return to their own world alive and of sound mind.
Considering that every single person to attempt void travel had died in the process there were not many enthusiastic volunteers.
So he essentially took a prisoner slated for execution and offered her half his fortune if she undertook the journey.
The rest as they say, is history. Pru was the first void traveller to survive void space.
Magazine Title: Great Trains of the Void
Magazine Description: This one is also a 'feature of the week' magazine and the second issue looks at a Voidcraft called Memory.
This void craft is not filled with fighters or even crisis solvers. Instead it travels the worlds, recording history by speaking to the ordinary people they meet.
It is a small craft, holding only twenty travellers at any time but has been operating for three hundred years and holds what is considered the greatest library of the multiverse in its data bases.
MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS - 3rd Issues
Magazine Description: Issue three introduces the first of the carriages. It is incredibly detailed, with seats- each that need to be attached separately. The is a simple electric circuit board that runs under the carriage towards the engine and the magazine explains that when the model is done it will have working doors that open and close at a push of a button.
Magazine Title: Voidcraft Through The Ages
Magazine Description: Bhifve was true to his word and gave Pru half his fortune. She was so inspired by her journey that she continued to work with him and helped develop void technology. Her first void journey had not involved her getting out of her void craft but that was something she was interested in developing.
This issue talks a bit about the issues they had with their research. Even though Pru had survived scientists criticised Bhifve for his ethics.
Magazine Title: Great Trains of the Void
Magazine Description: This issue talks about a pair of detectives who research unsolved crimes from other worlds. They travel in a small ship, just big enough for the two of them. They were famous for working with law enforcement in different worlds.
MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS - 4th Issues
Magazine Title: Great Trains of the Void: Issue Four
Magazine Description: ~ An infamous pirate Voidtrain, which caused havoc by exposing the void to non void active worlds, spreading technology and causing two whole civilisations to destroy their planets with war and bloodshed. Known only for the V emblazoned on its side in red it was the scourge of the void until the- then very newly formed Void Ministry brought it to justice.
Magazine Title: Build Your Own Voidcraft: Issue Four
Magazine Description: This introduces a second carriage, just as intricate as the first. Its connection is difficult as well though there is an interesting segment about materials used to make connecting parts between carriages of void trains - soft enough to allow movement, tough enough to withstand the void.
Magazine Title: Voidcraft through the Ages. Issue Four
Magazine Description: This jumps forward a good while and talks about the start of the void network- that is the first six systems that mostly independently of each other developed void travel.
After initial cultural misunderstandings and a war that was very narrowly averted a consensus to not interfere was established. The six systems kept themselves to themselves for a good fifty years, exploring worlds but avoiding each other.
MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS - 5th Issues
Magazine Description: During the time of exploration more findings were made - mostly separately - by the six void-active worlds. One of those was the technology developed to bring items into the void without physically loading it onto a voidcraft. This led to the first void platform, where voidcraft could restock without having to physically leave the void.
Magazine Title: Build Your Own Voidcraft: Issue Five
Magazine Description: This introduces a third carriage- this one is a sleeper carriage. It has four bedrooms with sliding doors and bunk beds. It has a piece on how a good night's sleep was very important whilst void travelling and most void craft were fitted with a system that allowed all passengers a period of unconsciousness each night- even if they came from worlds and peoples who did not usually sleep.
Magazine Title: Great Trains of the Void: Issue Five
Magazine Description: Mercy a large void-travelling train-hospital. It travelled to conflict zones to bring medical care to those that needed it. Up to five hundred medical staff travelled on Mercy at one time, taking much needed medical equipment and staff to many worlds that needed it the most.
There is a note at the end of the issue explaining that this is the final issue of Great Trains of the Void.
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Book Title: Laws of the Void
Book Description: Is a fiction book, about cut throat mercenaries who use the void as a smuggling channel. It is a thrilling novel and it is clear some research into void travel went into it- the descriptions of the void are pretty accurate at least.
The smugglers use small one person craft and move quickly from world to world, undercutting markets and moving goods. They are loosely organised though it is unclear whether smugglers such as this are real or a made up concept for the book.
Book Title: Creatures of the Void
Book Description: Is a 'myths and legends' types book. It states that there is no scientific proof of anything living in the void. But despite that as long as void travel has existed travellers have reported seeing things in the colours.
There are many many stories about spirits or ghosts, void treckers unable to get home, wandering lost. Some say that it is their cries that make the music.
Others claim the music is made from a form of void whale.
There are many monsters imagined. The most common being large void worms that eat ships whole. There are stories of void craft going missing.
There are many theories on the music. From shifting void particles to angel choirs and everything in between.
Nothing is known though. According to the science the void is devoid of life but it is, according to the book, fun to theorise.
Book Title: Voidspace: What you need to know
Book Description: This is a simple book, written by 'The Ministry of Voidtravel'.
It is a short pamphlet book and is quite dry. It is written for void active worlds and explains that to travel through void space you need to be registered with a Void Travel Company or be part of a Void Mission, you must undertake void training and have a full health screening. Tourists need specific insurance for void travel (there is a whole chapter on insurance forms, 45a for short journeys, 76b if planning to visit more than two worlds, 82x if going to a non void active world).
Most of the book is given over to explaining how to apply for different visas and travel permits. It does mention that those on Void Missions are automatically entitled to a full Void pass.
Magazine Title: Merry Little Voidtrain, Issue One
Magazine Description: Is an activity magazine based on Merry Little Voidtrain. It has a short comic style adventure featuring the Train and Kheli. It has puzzles and colouring sheets and a suggestion for a craft to make your very own Kheli mask!
Book Title: Book Not Found
Book Description: Is actually a history book about a planet called GHI, about an anti educational tyrant who set a void active world back about seven thousand years. It is a fascinating read, though very depressing.
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Book Title: Voidtrecker: A Photo Essay
Book Description: A photo essay of different worlds and differing shots of the Voidtrecker. Some are close up, some are far away. Some seem to be taken from inside the train to the outside (there are no photos of void). There are no people and no words, but each photograph is obviously carefully taken and the book tells a story of a journey, if in a strange medium.
Book Title: Help! I've Been Eaten by a Void Train, and Other Horror Stories
Book Description: The first story is about a man who is, as the title suggests, eaten by a sentient void train that goes around worlds eating people.
However the train seems to be made of void? It's weird. Anyways what follows is a psychological thriller that is both wacky and wonderful and terrifying. Sometimes purposefully so and sometimes entirely by accident.
There are three other stories in the book, all equally as weird horror stories. One about planets that are gods, waging and losing worlds in games of chess. Another about gelatinous blob monsters that subsume people and take on their character traits. The final story is about a city surrounded by thorns, where the citizens must vote out its least productive workers each month to be sacrificed to elder gods.
Despite the horror themes the stories are lightly written and are almost spoofs. Or maybe not. It is hard to tell.
Book Title: Filling a Void
Book Description: Is a collection of recruitment posters. Both for the Void Ministry and for various void mission services (it is notable that there is not one for Voidtrecker Express).
They are different in tone and content. Some are 'your world needs you' type and some focus on the skills that an individual can gain.
Void mission recruitment speaks about seeing new worlds, helping people and disaster relief. Some paint it as a big, worthwhile life experience. Others are more blunt and speak about hard work and discipline.
A vast array of people are shown, many different alien species. Sometimes there are no pictures, other times no words. Each have dates and seem to be in chronological order, though it is hard to tell as the dates seem to be the date on their origin world and bare no resemblance to each other.
*Book Title: Empire of Stars: Champion
Book Description: V765 grew up in the empire and is content to be a soldier like her parents. The problem with having famous parents however is that a lot is expected. Fresh out of military college is sent to Planet #98789878987, a notorious planet known for its lawlessness and disdain of the empire's reach.
Can she be the champion of her empire? Can she live up to the expectations of her family? Far from home, surrounded by enemies, can she stay true to her upbringing and bring peace to the multiverse?
*Book Title: Empire of Stars: Resistance
Book Description: Xoe grew up a rebel. Living literally underground on planet #98789878987 her family fight the Empire of Stars who enslave their planet. Xoe is a fighter, tough like all her people. She doesn't back down and she's not afraid of anything.
But a solo mission to scout out an empire fleet is the biggest thing she has ever done. Can she keep her nerve?
The book ends when Xoe and V765 crash into the wilderness after a battle goes wrong.
*Book Title: Empire of Stars: Honour Lost
Book Description: Xoe believes those of the empire to be ruthless and evil and no one is as surprised as she is when her life is saved by a soldier of the empire.
Together they begin a journey to find civilisation once more and both learn that perhaps, what they think they know is completely wrong.
However it takes more than the love of two people to heal a rift of centuries and the two young, idealistic pilots find themselves condemned by their people when they finally are found.
Xoe goes back to her people, encouraged to forget about the pilot. An enemy is an enemy, no matter how much kindness they show you. She returns to her work and tries to put the journey through the wilderness out of her mind. Yet she can not put V765 out of her mind.
V765 is cast out of the empire. Soldiers of the empire do not save rebels. The empire of stars does not show weakness.
But there is no place for a disgraced soldier in a universe where the empire's reach is wide and she lives on the edges of society, taking any work that comes her way.
*Book Title: Empire of Stars: Hope Restored
Book Description: A job comes to V765 that returns her to planet #98789878987. Though she knows she should not she seeks Xoe out.
Disguised as a rebel she joins the resistance, but all the time her and Xoe work to convince them that perhaps the empire should be listened to after all.
Xoe's closest friends begin to take heed and for the first time there is a glimmer of hope.
*Book Title: Empire of Stars: Closing a Door
Book Description: Sometimes it is the youth that must lead the way and after many Dramatic Conversations Xoe and her small band decide to follow V765 and join the Empire of Stars, even if it means leaving their people behind.
If the other books felt like the author was definitely of the Empire of Stars, this book confirms it. Xoe, V765 and the rebels decide that the way of the Empire is right and just and join, fighting against against the rebels in an epic battle that at least takes into account the utter heartbreak of fighting your own people for the greater good.
The series ends with Xoe joining the empire's military college, a bright future ahead of her. She bids farewell to V765 - still exiled because traitors don't get to be citizens even if they help destroy a rebel base, but loosely connected to the military as a gun for hire, and V765 promises that she will see her again when Xoe is a soldier for real.
It is perhaps meant to be a happy ending?
*The Empire of Stars books have a warning taped up next to them: "These were written by a member of the Empire itself. We've previously had to fight them off from taking over a world by force.
Reader discretion is advisedRead at your own discretion."Comic Title: Across the Stars
Comic Description: Sometimes a family is a young man, his robot dog and his void craft. The adventures of Pip, a scavenger who lives by finding scrap metal in space and delivering it to different universes. It's not smuggling it is... Alright it's smuggling but it's a life.
The void craft in the comic is indeed sentient- in a low level. It lights up blue when it is happy, it can sense danger before Pip does and sounds alarms to warn him and Pip talks to it like it can hear him.
But Pip also talks to the robot dog. Pip is an engaging character, friendly and kind and though his 'job' is smuggling, he often gets sidelined into helping people and doing favours for the various people he meets on his adventures.
As it is a drawn medium Nita will notice he is wearing something that looks similar to a SCA on his wrist in panels where his arms are bare.
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Book Title: Long Past Dawn
Book Description: The story of two young men both of whom dream of being warriors. Samithinos is the heir of a kingdom, sheltered from birth. Expected to rule after his mother, politics is meant to be his battleground, and yet it is so boring.
Nim is a farm boy with no education, no training and the ability to trip up over thin air. A life of toil and graft lies before him, yet he dreams for more.
Both sneak their way into the army, fall in love and be really super dramatic about everything. It's not a great book honestly, but trashy teen fiction has its place in libraries.
Book Title: Warrior's Curse
Book Description: A young woman wakes up in a mountain camp. She has been sold as a pit fighter for the crime of murdering her younger brother. However she has no recollection of that. She has no recollection of anything, not even her name. Despised for crimes she cannot remember committing and forced to fight she must learn to survive this harsh world.
She wins herself allies, some turn into friends, she gains reputation as a pit fighter and tries to piece together her past.
It is the first in a trilogy.
Comic Title: Tree Top Warriors
Comic Description: Five crime fighting, tree swinging monkeys are here to save the day! Not as childish as it sounds it is a comic book about five monkeys in a world where it seems everyone are animals. After someone from their village is hurt in a vicious attack they wonder why no one stepped in to help.
They then realise they could be the ones that help and so begins their adventures.
Magazine Title: Smile!
Magazine Description: This is a very girly magazine, with stories about how to impress those you crush on (spearing a hva snake in one stroke is number one), agony aunt pieces about family and teachers and make up tips (hard to copy, it assumes you have eye stalks).
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Book Description: Mangled legs have been turning up all over the city of Huthydnsa and the inhabitants are scared. Ten murders in ten weeks, all committed with a razor, and still nobody has a clue who the killer is.
Madame Rachel Russell is a housekeeper with a fondness for trainspotting. When her grandmother, Polly Grey, is kidnapped, Madame Russell finds herself thrown into the centre of the investigation. Her only clue is a stripy hat.
She enlists the help of a loving computer programmer called Barry Blunder. Can Blunder help Russell overcome her social media addiction and find the answers before the spiteful killer and his deadly razor strike again?
Book Title: Made of Broken Things
Book Description: Cid is a troubled young man fleeing a violent home by hopping on the first ship out to sea he can. He enlists as a deckhand on what turns out to be a notorious pirate ship. Out of the frying pan and into the fire as it were he learns quickly how to survive on the sea.
A powerful coming of age novel about a young man growing past what could be, literally sailing out onto the horizon to find himself and learning that that isn't as easy as it might sound. Adventure, heartbreak and a few too many storms await him as he grows and learns.
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Book Title: My Lord's Moon
Book Description: An outlaw mage, running from those who accuse her of hideous crimes begins a dangerous trek across the mountains, separating her home from the neighboring land.
War has been a constant between the two nations and now she must live among her enemies, gather allies and prove her innocence. Will she ever see her home again?
Book Title: The Circle of Hope
Book Description: Bi'aca has lived a tough life, hunted across the galaxy by those who would blame her for the actions of her family, taken before she was born. Her parents were two of the most feared criminals in the galaxy, leaving a trail of bodies and sorrow behind them before they were finally caught when she were just a babe.
She has spent her whole life hiding, moving on whenever anyone gets too close. The novel starts with her crash landing into a desolate and desperate planet. She is found by scavengers, fighters living on the edge of a society under the rule of violent crime lords.
It is here where Bi'aca finds connection, hope and a reason to stop running.
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Book Title: How Does It Work? The Locomotive
Book Description: Is as she guessed a children's picture book about how steam trains work.*
*Nita puts a note on this one, reaffirming that it is NOT about Voidcraft, let alone the Voidtrecker Express
Book Title: Be Safe! Safety Control Apparatus.
Book Description: This seems to be a simple pamphlet aimed at tourists. It explains that all Void travellers will have a safety device, most often called Safety Control Apparatus.
It explains that the main purpose is to act as a 'tether' to the void craft and to allow people to survive in places where they would otherwise struggle. It explains that most of SCA's, even those on tourist craft will have an evacuation function.
It goes on to explain about how different worlds have different air and chemical components in the air and the SCA allows survival in not idea atmospheres. They also give some protection against pressure, extreme heat and cold. However there is a warning that such things are still harmful and void explorers should always maintain common sense and be careful.
There are other uses of the SCA depending on what void company is travelled with. Including maps and communications.
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Book Title: System Shutdown
Book Description: Bik and Gharie are freedom fighters in a far off system. They are fighting against a tyrannical leader who cares nothing for the lives of those living in the six planets of the system.
The group they are part of has a plan, one plan to end a war that has spanned many years. Operation System Shutdown is dangerous, probably suicidal. But is their only hope.
Book Title: Voiddust
Book Description: This is a surreal fairytale, a girl who dances with fairies in her dreams. It is a mix of prose and poetry and follows the girl (who is never named) who dreams in the colours of the void.
She dances with void fairies to the music and yet each morning must return to her waking world on a void craft. The language is beautiful and in places sorrowful.
Book Title: Merry Little Voidtrain: Inspection!
Book Description: Merry Little Voidtrain and Kheli have to go in for an inspection! Merry Little Voidtrain is a bit frightened but Kheli finds ways to cheer it up! They are both brave and afterwards treat themselves to cake.
Book Title: Communication Points: A Basic Overview
Book Description: This is a quite dry book about different communication methods that are usable in the void. It seems to be a guide for those choosing on communication methods for void craft. It recommends closed networks within a void craft but lists the pros and cons of a few different makes.
Book Title: How It Works: Void Engines
Book Description: This is again for children and is very basic. But it explains that a void engine can phase through a world into the void (which is explained as the space between worlds, out of time and space).
It speaks how a voidcraft is 'solid and yet not' which allows them move through realities. It reassures the reader that nowadays Void travel is safe but young people shouldn't do it for long periods of time without rest.
Available primarily in the Medbay... eventually.
Book Title: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition
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Book Title:Beginners guide to counseling
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Book Description:: A simple guide to counseling sessions, walking through important points and the do's and don't's
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Book Title: Atlas of Clinical Hematology
Book Title: Crafting in the Void
Book Description: Crafting in the void is a book of handicrafts to keep you occupied on your void journey. Best crafts to do in small spaces. Plenty of tips on how to travel with enough wool for all your knitting needs.
Some very bizarre alien crafts that assume you have 3+ arms, might need friends to help with but it's fine!
There's also a lot of different ways to journal your travels!
Book Title: Health in the Void
Book Description: Health in the Void is a lifestyle and well being book for void travellers. It covers a varity of topics such as healthy eating, regular exersize, the importance of spending time outside on worlds when it is possible, trying to maintain a normal sleeping pattern and other good health tips! It has some recipes, some yoga-esque activities for cramped quarters and ideas for mindful activities.
Voidsickness is mentioned as a risk of void travel but claims that apart from the most dire of cases symptoms can be minimised through lifestyle choices.
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Book Title: How to Speak Tech
Book Description: This is a non-Techie's Guide to Key Technology Concepts, like how things work online.
Book Title: The Senior Sleuth's Guide to Technology for Seniors
Book Description: Providing a lighthearted overview for Tech that help to make senior citizen's lives more graceful, independent, invigorating, and fun.
Book Title: Mystery in Mirkwood
Book Description: Written by "Goldilocks" which is a Westron name which is clearly a pseudonym of an anonymous elf. Story was written in the Third Age.
A human is found dead, wrapped in a spider web, not an unusual occurrence unfortunately. But this time, there is more there that meets the eye. A Detective GreenLeaf novel.
A little longer after platform than usual, these will appear in the library:
Book Title: Bhifve: A Biography
Book Description:
~ Bhifve was born on what would become known as System #3. One of the first six void-active worlds.
~ His world knew about the void but no attempts of entering it had been successful.
~ He was the son of two scientists and grew up in a wealthy learning-rich environment.
~ This led to him becoming a scientist himself.
~ When he was seventeen his mother thought she had succeeded in voidtravel. She set off on a journey and though her ship left into the void, her body remained on her world.
~ The loss of his mother hit Bhifve hard and he threw himself into his work. He quickly became known as a mad scientist.
~ It was his life's work and he perused it with very dubious ethics. He often was quoted saying that if he did not achieve void travel then his mother had died in vain.
~ He was 56 years old when he figured he had cracked it. He could find no one to willingly travel in his experimental craft and this led to him bribing a corrupt official to give him a prisoner who was slated for execution.
~ His initial meeting with Pru was a disaster and she told him that if he forced her into the void she would do everything within her power to ruin his experiment.
~ He offered her half his fortune if she survived and a full pardon for her crimes. She agreed and the rest, as they say, is history.
~ His relationship with Pru improved when she returned successful and they worked together for many years.
~ Despite all his work he only voidtravelled himself once- he was one hundred and three years old and bed bound. Pru took him into the void and to her favourite world- one with crystal cliffs that sung with the wind. He died under a rich golden sky and Pru returned back to system #3 to bury him.
Book Title: Leaving the Void Active Worlds
Book Description: This is a travel guide, it contains information about travelling to non void-active worlds and is mostly filled with tips about blending in and not mentioning void travel.
It has some suggestions of ways to learn about different cultures, without revealing you are from another world and some other tips and hints about cross world manners and etiquette.
There is also some information on the breach of void secrecy reporting procedure. This mostly seems to involve a lot of paperwork.
Book Title: Worst Void Criminals
Book Description: This is a very sensationalist 'true' crime book about the worst five criminals in void history. It is sparse on actual facts but rich in gore and detail.
The Captain of the Voidtrain known only as V
Leader of the scourge of the void. So little is known of this captain. Who they were, where they came from or even if they were the same person for the entirety of the voidtrain's reign of terror.
Tar
A serial killer who left a trail of blood across a series of non void-active worlds before she was finally brought to justice.
J, J & H
The three criminals behind the annihilation of system #901. Con artists who used the void to pull off 'perfect' heists and inadvertently set off a chain of events that led to the destruction of a fifty-planet strong system and the loss of countless lives.
Queen Nvurtsfa of Ghri
A warrior queen who ruled her entire world with an iron fist. When void travel was discovered she sent her armies out into the void and subjugated three hundred worlds before she was finally stopped.
Joi Nurl
A seemingly normal office worker from system #34253 who moved illegal money and was heavily involved behind the scenes of an inter world drug trade. He was responsible for introducing the addictive drug 'Roze' to many worlds. Roze's main problem was though it was a addictive but mostly relaxing drug for those of system #34253 it could cause many medical complications in other worlds.
Book Title: Where It All Began: Voidcraft
Book Description: This is a children's information book about the first void travel. It does feature a short piece on Jifti and Byin and their doomed voyage but the bulk of it focuses on Bhifve and Pru.
It glosses over a lot of the facts of Bhifve's life and work and indeed many of the parts of Pru's. It does mention that she was in jail and they made a deal that she would work for him.
It has a picture of the two of them - they were blue-skinned humanoids - and a basic sketch of the void-craft.
Comic Title: Void Heroes!
Comic Description: A one-shot graphic novel that follows three voidtreckers aboard the Voidtrecker Express III. Farli, a yellow team vice-captain, has to prepare for an away mission and their own conflicted romantic feelings for the blue team medic, Yarrow. Yarrow, the only survivor of an attack on their homeworld, is fiercely protective of their teammates to the exclusion of all else. Meanwhile Nebs, a new member of green team, struggles with her training and her feelings of isolation. The comic ends on a positive note, as the characters bond and overcome great peril.
Book Title: Destination Voidspace
Book Description: A glossy travel brochure by the Void Ministry. This issue features System #88888 a world of rugged icy mountains, occupied only by giant flying creatures. The creatures are not a threat, it is quick to reassure readers, and the world is a fascinating nature retreat.
It advertises void-tours. One offers a one week stay in luxury log cabins. Another is for the more adventurous- a mountain trail hike, camping along the way. A third is a quicker tour- part of a five world adventure cruise.
Book Title: To The Future!
Book Description: A magazine written by a junior void minister, working in the void offices of System #1. It has information on a couple of newly discovered worlds (one is occupied by a whole range of people, the other seems barren) and news of the Void Annual Ball happening in the void embassy. Much of the magazine is focused on that- who will be there, etc.
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Book Title: Ten Moments Of... Lanius Tertus
Book Description: There is a foreword explaining that they are two voidtravellers who travel various worlds, mostly the non void-active ones and set out to document some of their favourite places.
There are ten photos, each expertly framed and shot. They encapsulate the world in ten images (or at least what the photographers see as the most worthy of memory.) L.T. is a planet covered in strange machines. The travellers traverse cave systems and the surface alike, but no living creatures appear in any of the photos.
Book Title: Ten Moments of... Spira
Book Description: 'There is a foreword explaining that they are two voidtravellers who travel various worlds, mostly the non void-active ones and set out to document some of their favourite places.
There are ten photos, each expertly framed and shot. None of them show people up close (though some have people in the background). They encapsulate the world in ten images (or at least what the photographers see as the most worthy of memory.) The locations are all named familiarly, but show a Spira from before the Machina War. Besaid, Bikanel, Mi'ihen and Zanarkand all feature. (Example of Images // one, two, three, four)
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Character's Name: Ash
Book Title: Principles of Aether, Magic, and Magitek
Book Description:
A hefty leather-bound book that seems to be hand bound lovingly. It is a lovely burgundy leather with darker ombre near the corners, which are clasped in a gold-looking metal. The cover is pressed with elaborate designs, most notably a meteor in the middle with a suggestions of magic surrounding it. There also seems to be the suggestion of circuitry along the other edges of the cover, straight lines in parallel with one another. The title of the book is not on the front, but there is the title in Hingan on the spine of the book, delicately painted. The paint looks fresh, as if it were a touch up for a well used book.
Opening the book gives the title page, just as elaborate as the front, but done in full color in a water color style. The entire page is filled with color with accents of gold and silver, truly giving lend to the nature of magic (or, however the person who designed this sees it). The acknowledgements seem to be in an ancient not-quite-Japanese type script thanking someone named Aragibal Kha, Felih Tia, Cid Garlond, and a Cocobuki. The rest of the script is Eorzean (a very stylized English), written in small, very neat cursive. The book is quite dense as it explains aether and magic and how to tie them into magitek. It will go over advanced topics including how aether can be stored, how it can be used in a magitek sense, and some creative applications of it. It then goes into advanced nitty gritty on integrating aether into magitek.
As you go through the book there are additional notes in the margin in a messy scribble of someone else's hand, adding counterpoints or extra observations for "those without aether sensitivity" (Eorzeans read: Garleans).
At the back of the book is a section blank pages, as if bound extra for some notes space, and there seems to be hasty writing between the two hands about a being called Alexander and the time properties it exhibits. Fresher ink is written about something called The Tycoon. There are theories on how to accommodate time travel based on these two beings, with sketches of devices, related complex geometries, and some extra thoughts in both hands scribbled there.
Ash will comment she gets the sense that this was Monx's personal copy.
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Book Title: Sword's Shrine
Book Description:
Nithendale is a peaceful town on the edge of a kingdom. Until monsters attack, amidst a night of death and destruction the Sword of Protection is stolen from the town's temple. Without it greater calamities will hit this peaceful, sleepy town.
Margaret is the blacksmith's apprentice, Jon the son of a wealthy merchant and Fi is a street musician. Their worlds clash that night and these three unlikely heroes set off on a quest to reclaim the Sword of Protection and save their town from destruction.
A story about friendship, adventure and the importance or working together.
Book Title: The Dynasty of Nine
Book Description:
A dying world, nine ships holding humanity's last remnants. Leaving their world behind they set off among the stars to seek out a new home, not knowing if they will even find one, and only hoping there can be a better place.
It jumps around the PoV of the crew and passengers, almost a series of small snapshots into their lives. Not all that much happens in the way of overarching plot but the stories stand alone quite nicely.