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Seconded Chances

By Guy Roberts

Seconded Chances

By Guy Roberts

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Kintara is a river city that prefers ledgers to speeches. When the time¿visa program threatens to turn history into content, caseworker Amaya and reluctant witness Jonah agree to a tidy lie-a fake marriage-to stand where it counts and keep the rules honest. Their first clean crossing sparks a civic movement: Noon is a rope, not a watch; tariffs can be clerical-benches and tea-rather than years carved out of people. But a black¿market warehouse called The Athanor is laundering stolen memory into addictive "composites," and a suave Archivist swears it's mercy.With a team of clipboard paladins and code poets, Amaya and Jonah seize a room, write a treaty, and teach a city to prefer records over posters. Along the way they draft a private Covenant of Verbs. When the Rope Year arrives, ferries whistle twölong, one¿short and wait for rope before answering. Second Chances is civic science fiction with a heartbeat: cozy¿adjacent, slow¿burn, and fiercely hopeful about the paperwork that keeps people alive.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
314
Release Date:
2025-09-03
Publication Date:
2025-09-03
Publisher:
guy roberts
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798232599157
Weight:
445 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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