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OUT OF THE WAY #13 is out now:

Darius, Morales and Jake speak with the newcomers.

'Out of the Way' is presented AD-FREE. Enjoy this #serialized #podcast #sciencefiction adventure & share wit your friends.

4 adventurers prepare to enter an eerie, green-glowing forest on the cover to 'Out of the Way', an urban fantasy portal adventure by John Mierau.

Finished _Total War_ {Behold: Humanity! 06} by Ralts Bloodthorne last night. Given that a description of Book 14 of this #SciFi saga says it covers 40 of the 1000+ #serialized chapters, this series will be over 25 #books long. ●●●●○ #ScienceFiction

I've been reading and enjoying two books a month, which is too fast, since this #HFY series is only up to Book 14, with volumes coming out every two months.

If that rate holds, I calculate that Book 26 should come out in May 2026, while if I henceforth read only one volume a month, I'll be reading Book 23 when it comes out in Nov 2025. Thenceforth I'm stuck waiting two months between volumes. #SFF

Remember the unmemorably named Tom Cruise movie _Edge of Tomorrow_ with Emily Blunt from – gah, a decade ago? It was supposed to have been called _Live Die Repeat_, which will help you recall it. #ScienceFiction

I just read a chapter named "Live! Die! Repeat!" in a collage novel by Ralts Bloodthorne, _Do You Need Assistance?_ (Behold: Humanity! 02) It's about some Terran Confederacy Space Marines (Clone Worlds division) in an Assault DropShip attacking a Precursor Goliath (a giant robot warship bent on wiping out all biological lifeforms; think a Berserker the size of Australia). #SciFi

Clone Marines depend on creation engines (think Star Trek replicators) to an even greater degree than other Confeds. So their mothership spits out AI-piloted dropships, which head for the Goliath, and get destroyed. And the mothership replicates and spits out another, which has learned more about the Goliath's firing strategy from how that ship and all the others were destroyed, and survives longer. And so on. #SFF

Each time our dropship reconstitutes – along with its three marines – our focus character Rexin thinks "I live". And a minute or two later, "I die". Next time he recalls what happened the time before, because he has a SUDS node (Sentience Uninterrupted Disaster Storage) in his brainstem which continually updates a SUDS bank on the mothership via subspace (or whatever this setting calls it).

Eventually the dropship makes it into the Goliath, and when the marines are killed by traps or internal robotic defenders, they now get replicated in the creation engine booth in their dropship, and run out again, leaping over their previous dead body and continuing further into the ship (shades of _Rogue Moon_ by Algis Budrys). And if last time they got beheaded, their powersuit has stronger neck-armor this time.

I'm not one for #SpaceMarines stories in general, but I liked this chapter. And since the story was originally #serialized for #Reddit, you can read it if you like. (2900 words) The characters did not appear before in the storyline, and likely won't appear again, so you need no prior knowledge to understand it. And trivially, 'nCv' means 'near light velocity'.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/33726/first-contact/chapter/518910/part-sixty-four-rixen