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    Metal Flesh (The After Eden Series: Tek-Fall, Episode I): The After Eden Series: Tek-Fall, #1
    Metal Flesh (The After Eden Series: Tek-Fall, Episode I): The After Eden Series: Tek-Fall, #1
    Metal Flesh (The After Eden Series: Tek-Fall, Episode I): The After Eden Series: Tek-Fall, #1
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    Metal Flesh (The After Eden Series: Tek-Fall, Episode I): The After Eden Series: Tek-Fall, #1

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    A Robot with glowing red digital eyes, and infested with--worms!

    Metal Flesh: Tek-Fall (Episode I) is the companion novella in the After Eden science fiction and international thriller series by Austin Dragon.

    The year is 2093! Before the events of Thy Kingdom Fall (After Eden Series, Book #1) and during the events of Stars & Scorpions (After Eden Series, Book #2).

    Faithers and Pagans are both looking for the elusive "Man Made Out of String." But who is this contract killer—or what is he?

    From the tek-cities of America to the Outlands of the Middle East, the sci-fi adventure thriller continues.

    Tek-World loves its artificial-intelligent mechanization, including robotic pets and ubiquitous drones. But humans have also created machines in their image—robots—using metal instead of flesh.

    Metal Flesh is book one of the two-part Tek-Fall Duology in the epic After Eden series--a dramatic mix of politics, religion, technology, and intrigue set almost eighty years in the future.

    The After Eden saga is leading to the explosion of World War Three, a hell we have never seen before.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAustin Dragon
    Release dateFeb 20, 2016
    ISBN9780615628042
    Metal Flesh (The After Eden Series: Tek-Fall, Episode I): The After Eden Series: Tek-Fall, #1
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    Austin Dragon

    Austin Dragon is the author of over 30 books in science fiction, fantasy, and classic horror. His works include the sci-fi noir detective LIQUID COOL series, the epic fantasy FABLED QUEST CHRONICLES, the international futuristic epic AFTER EDEN Series, the classic SLEEPY HOLLOW HORRORS, and new military sci-fi PLANET TAMERS series. He is a native New Yorker but has called Los Angeles, California home for more than twenty years. Words to describe him, in no particular order: U.S. Army, English teacher, one-time resident of Paris, movie buff, Fortune 500 corporate recruiter, renaissance man, futurist, and dreamer.

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      Metal Flesh (The After Eden Series - Austin Dragon

      Introduction

      After Eden, Thy Kingdom Fall. All Kingdoms Fall, New Kingdoms Rise.

      ––––––––

      World War III. It was inevitably going to be one of religion, this great, grim, evil war of humans, machines, and other things in the shadows that have never existed before. Unfortunately, neither the cause nor the outcome was within our perception, though the former should have been. No one could ever have imagined that it would not just be the third of the world wars, as that is unremarkable, but the explosion of the first global war of the Technological Age, the Tek Age—a hell we had never seen before.

      With the benefit of more than fifty years since the end of direct American involvement in the pre-Caliphate Middle East, we can see in stark detail that despite the miraculous advancements in medical tek and forever-changing gear, the human soldier has remained virtually the same after several thousands of years. I fear we may have already arrived at the 'NHA Battlefield'—no humans allowed—as future wars will showcase such an array of biologically destructive machines and weapon systems that no normal human soldier will be able to survive, for even a moment. Any future 'manned' wars will be fought with surrogate robots and cybernetically advanced or genetically engineered super soldiers. – Colonel Tiny Garrison, MD, PhD, M.I.T Military Academy, 2079

      Such is the dual state of modern man—coldly god-like and amorally child-like. It is not a new scientific theory in socio-cultural anthropology. The more civilization advances technologically, the more humankind regresses and de-evolves. 'Humanity' itself fades and dies away; then the world...falls. This eventuality is called Tek-Fall. – Mister Alpha (real name disputed), believed to be one of the Founders of the pre-Magi Order, circa 2050

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      Net-Dictionary

      Wolf 359

      1. A red dwarf star located in the Leo constellation, approximately 7.8 light-years from Earth, making it one of the stars nearest to our solar system.

      2. A fictional space battle in the Star Trek Universe between the United Federation of Planets and the Borg Collective in the year 2367.

      3. The opening battle of World War III in New York City on September 11, 2125. Over sixty percent of the United States of America Atlantic Oceanic Battle Fleet was destroyed by the Supreme Islamic Caliphate Battle Group on the first day.

      ––––––––

      Other terms:

      Pagan:

      1. (universal or American usage) a non-believer of god or gods; one that doesn't believe in religion, often negative to, hostile to, or hateful of religion.

      2. (Russian Bloc) a member of the Wicca, Druid, or Old Pagan religions.

      Jew-Christian: (American usage [by non-religious people]) a religious person, other than Muslim.

      Faither: (global usage [by religious people]) a religious person, other than Muslim.

      Tek World: common slang for tek-cities, tek-metropolises, or general tek-society.

      Resistance: (pre-World War III)

      1. [by non-religious people] government term for the network of Jew-Christian domestic terrorists in America.

      2. [by religious people] the civilian resistance force against the militant, anti-religious American government.

      Continuum:

      1. (general usage) the parallel society created by and controlled exclusively by Faithers outside of Tek World.

      2. (formal usage) the formal alliance of the New Protestant Order, New Jewish Continuum, New Catholic Order, African Collective, Shogun, and the Magi.

      The Metal Flesh Poem

      God creates Man.

      Man rejects God.

      Man creates Machines.

      Machines become God.

      Man accepts new God.

      Machines kill Man.

      Machines self-terminate.

      God resets the universe.

      Chronology

      The following story takes place after the events of

      Thy Kingdom Fall (After Eden Series, Book #1)

      during the events of

      Stars and Scorpions (After Eden Series, Book #2)

      and before the events of

      Rising Leviathan (After Eden Series, Book #3)

      Chapter One: Sprocket

      I must find the Jew-Christian called Goth Lila.

      The thought quickly fades from his mind as a figure ambles into his line of sight. It lurches forward from the shadows. At first a tall, lanky silhouette, then fully visible—a bald humanoid robot of bright silver construction, with glowing red digital eyes and infested with...worms. Large pink worms wiggle from every metallic pore and every crevice of its robotic body. It stops in front of him, its head swivels to face him, and it sticks out a grayish tongue at him. It smiles, then continues its walk through the bustling human crowds of the tek-city.

      Sprocket watches, sitting on the bare pavement on the corner—the same spot he has barely moved from in almost four days. The hallucinations are growing more frequent. Supposedly, by next week he will be unable to distinguish between reality and dreams. The body must sleep, it must dream, and if you don't let it, it will do so without your permission, and with your eyes wide open. He has been awake for three days straight, but well within safe levels.

      Dayton, Ohio is a tek-city like all others. Environmentally, it is never too hot, never too cold. The hidden air regulators, built into every building, keep all that unkind weather of the natural world away from the population. No one living here—most have never been anywhere else, other than to travel from one tek-city to another via enclosed transportation—knows what it is to feel a natural cool breeze, a winter draft, summer humidity, or a drop of a snowflake on the skin. Rain is the only element they've experienced, and that is tolerated by the Grid only for urban sanitation reasons—Let's give the tek-city a good shower. The average Jew-Christian would probably say, That's like a muddy pig taking a bath in a pool of mud. He knows about real weather because he has ventured and even lived in the territories outside the tek-cities—the retro-tek Outlands and the dangerous Trog-lands.

      He pops another zombie into his mouth. The stimulagenic gum has been his only companion these past days. He must stay awake on what is hopefully the end of his endless stakeout. The good news is that zombies allow you to stay awake seemingly forever, if you want. The bad news is that the longer you use them, hallucinations and daymares start to occur. Then the insanity creeps in, reversible at first, and then the irreversible psychosis stage arrives. He has another week at least before that happens, but he must risk it. It's the very moment he closes his eyes that she'll turn up. That's what happened three times before. He's been tracking her up and down the coast and across the country for years now.

      Sprocket is grungier than usual, dressed in black skin-jeans, a thick t-shirt, and covered by a thin, transparent leather hoodie. He doesn't like hair on his face, but he forgot his palm-shaver so, just as he hates, he has a mustache and the beginnings of a beard that look like someone drew them on with a makeup marker. His long dark brown hair is disheveled, except for a casual part to keep it out of his dark brown eyes.

      He hears laughter and glances up to see a surveillance globe-drone with big, red lips and big, white teeth hovering fifteen feet in the air. Government surveillance drones are everywhere watching the people, twenty-inch-diameter flying spheres in a muted silver color. But there are many more commercial drones—flying digital billboards, flashing people with their rapid stop-motion live-def static photos or full-fledged vids. Neither type of drone has lips and teeth. Visual and auditory hallucinations now—not good.

      It's really not accurate to say, If you've seen one, you've seen them all. Every tek-city has some bit of uniqueness. The Northwest has more trees, while the East loves its vertical construction, with taller residential and commercial towers than other parts of the country. The Midwest is more into horizontal construction, sprawling the tek-city over wider stretches of land. But

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