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The Galactic Human Empire was built atop four sciences: logic, physics, psychology, and sociology. Standing on those pillars, humans spent 100,000 years spreading out into the galaxy: warring, exploring, partying — the usual. Then there was the fifth science. And that killed the empire stone dead.
The Fifth Science is a collection of 12 stories, beginning at the start of the Galactic Human Empire and following right through to its final days. We’ll see some untypical things along the way, meet some untypical folk: galactic lighthouses from the distant future, alien tombs from the distant past, murderers, emperors, archaeologists and drunks; mad mathematicians attempting to wake the universe itself up.And when humans have fallen back into savagery, when the secrets of space folding and perfect wisdom are forgotten, we’ll attend the empire’s deathbed, hold its hand as it goes. Unfortunately that may well only be the beginning.
Publisher : Independently published (February 13, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1796356301
ISBN-13 : 978-1796356304
Item Weight : 14.1 ounces
Dimensions : 5 x 0.84 x 8 inches
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Reviewer: William Custard
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book
Review: Very well written and thought provoking collection of short stories. Excellent!
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Genuinely fantastic.
Review: I’ve got nothing else to add. Fantastic characters, fantastic writing, fantastic story. I’m wholeheartedly convinced that exurb1a’s one of today’s big geniuses.
Reviewer: Izadore
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun book
Review: Itâs a great book by exurb1a with some really interesting ideas that Iâd love to see further explored by some other authors and directors
Reviewer: Cooper Parlee
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The most beautiful and exciting existential crisis you will ever have.
Review: This book is one of the few artfully-crafted novels where you open it with few expectations, then simply cannot put it down, except in this case, you can’t put it down even though you’re having the worst existential crisis of your life while simultaneously being overwhelmingly excited for the science that might come in the next few years.Exurbia’s relationship with language as a tool has always been able to convey that powerful sense of wonder that exists in the intersection of consciousness as an “oh my god I’m alive and I don’t know how or why” moment and fully realizing the beauty of the universe and futurism at the same time. This book is no exception. This book does a lot of things well, but cannot really be placed into a category on its own. You’ll be whisked away into a world of robots, machine learning, overindulgence, and societal bliss and in one way, the book will be a regress on the dystopic utopian vision optimistic futurists hold. In another way, the book encapsulates that very feeling of smallness that is experienced when you gaze up into the night sky and realize that you are merely a dumb ape on a small rock floating through space in a massive universe and that nothing you have done or will ever do will ever matter and that the pointless societal sand-castle we’re building will just be washed away by the waves of the cosmic oceans of time.I can confidently say I am a better person from reading this book. Nothing has any inherent meaning; that’s for us to decide.
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book
Review: Very engaging and fun to read book.The stories build off each other in a satisfying way that makea the reader fill like the stories are set in a living breathing universe
Reviewer: G@dg3t
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Get this book. A great read by a true master.
Review: After discovering the inspirational content creator on YouTube, I sampled some of his writings and was compelled to dig deeper. What a gift weâve all been given. I donât typically write reviews, but if this is a sign for someone to nudge them towards taking a the plunge into supporting the man who is this creative, then I feel justified. I will definitely be getting the rest of his works! Such a mind this fellow has! I hope that his creativity will bring him the means to keep on creating great things. We need more of this in our world. His stories can be taken alone, but nicely tie together the timeline of that universe. He is easily read, and delivers so well you can envision his words come to life like a movie in your mind. Help keep this guy going! If you doubt his talents, be sure to check him out on YouTube. Profound, witty, sarcastic, educated, well spoken, hilarious, inspiring, touching. He may just turn into your next stalking target – heâs that good! I just want to pull a Cathy Bates on him and keep him for my very own. Lol.
Reviewer: Ty
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book
Review: Fantastic science fiction book. If you like Exurb1aâs videos you should absolutely buy it and read it!
Reviewer: Stefano Pogany
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This is a masterpiece
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. The stories are alive, I felt I was in them and I could hear the people talking. Deep, subtle, intelligent.
Reviewer: Roger Fitch
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I enjoyed this book. I bought it on a whim and found it unexpectedly good. The science itself didn’t matter to me so much as the application and implications toward humanity. I like that someone had the imagination to think this book up. All good fun.
Reviewer: Guilherme de Abreu Ferreira
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: As this was my first book I can’t really say what’s right or wrong about the book but I still enjoyed it in a way I thought I wouldn’t do by reading. I’m happy this was my first book.
Reviewer: Nestor
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Me gusta que el libro sea sencillo de leer y las historias sean super interesantes 😀
Reviewer: Sebastian W.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I would have liked to see more references and hints to previous stories/chapters. Overall, it was a great experience, and even though the author writes that the stories can be read in any order, I found some linearity in it. Great stuff
Reviewer: Katja Fischer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Beautiful, deeply honest, thought-provoking book. Can only recommend!