Condemnation (STAR-DUST 23) E-Book

Jens F. Simon

• Herausgeber: epubli
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

Sigurd's spirit is transferred to a world of the future that perished 200 years ago. The continents are radioactively contaminated and biologically polluted. Mutants now populate the surface of planet Earth, more than two thirds of which have been destroyed. Obscure creatures rule over the rest of the former human race with brutal sanctions and unnatural-looking technology. Sigurd wakes up in a body that is about to die of thirst on the edge of a desert. He has absolutely no memory of his old life.

Leseprobe

STAR-DUST

Under the spell of nanites

Volume 23

Condemnation

© 2025 Jens F. Simon

Illustration: S. Verlag JG

Publisher: S. Verlag JG, 35767 Breitscheid,

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ISBN: 978-3-819055-17-1

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The soul is firmly connected to the human body. However, the spirit, the mental I, is something separate, something independent in the Christian faith. If, by chance, the firm connection between soul and body should ever be severed, it is unalterable that there is no going back. Is that so?

We are often not aware of how much we are influenced by a person's appearance. Only when we also get the opportunity to look inside, we will find the truth. But is it really the whole truth?

Table of content 

Prologue

Sgrull

The way of the brave

The power of the para-mutant

Majenna

The Insectoid Man

Raid

Path to new world

The departure

Prologue

I was sitting in the old wing chair with a leg extension that still came from my grandmother and had the eBook reader in my hand.

The window was wide open, and I could hear distant engine noises from the country road that wound up a hill three kilometers away.

There was no breeze. It was already dawn, and the temperature was still well above 22 degrees Celsius.

STAR ADVENTURE was the name of the SCI-FI series I had just downloaded.

Thoughtfully, I let my eyes wander over the bookshelves that stretched along the walls from floor to ceiling around my bed.

They were full of old books; the pages long since yellowed. I had started to make the switch from print books to eBooks.

At the beginning, it was still very difficult for me. Somehow the constant contact with the paper pages was missing.

It also lacked the unique smell of printed books while reading. What was positive for me was the possibility to have constant access to thousands and thousands of books with the eBook Reader.

Also, one always had the right lighting and was not so dependent on the ambient light.

It was such a pleasant dusk to go to distant galaxies and experience romantic, dangerous adventures.

I thought about it for a moment, put the eBook reader aside, got up and went to the window.

Next week I would move in with my friend Gaby. We had been a couple for a quarter of a year now.

It had been kind of strange.

The first time we kissed, there was suddenly a strange thought in my head and the face of a very pretty woman flashed briefly in my mind.

She looked at me with big, expressive eyes and I thought I could detect the smell of peach.

Sometimes I had the impression that reading so much really didn't agree with me.

My mother had always spoken of fantasies that distracted me too much from my real life.

After all, I was thirty-one years old and unemployed. I watched the cars on the country road, lost in thought.

They looked like little match box cars from here. The quiet, almost steady roar of the engine sounds made me feel tired.

My gaze wandered and my eyes began to fall shut.

Then I startled. There was a strange flash of light next to the barn that belonged to Gaby's father and that stood about ten meters from our house.

A cold but bright source of light suddenly caught all my attention.

Before I could try to concentrate on it, the door to the room opened abruptly.

Sigurd, something has happened," I heard my mother say softly.

She held on to the door frame for a moment, and at that moment I suspected something bad. She just stood there and looked into my room.

"What is it?"

I walked slowly toward her. She still didn't say anything and then her eyes started to get watery.

With a deep sigh, she let herself fall into my arms.

"Dad has left. Now we're alone!"

At first I didn't know what she meant. Then it slowly dawned on me.

My father had died.

"What, where...?" I could barely think straight myself and tried to pull myself together.

My mother looked at me with tear-filled eyes.

"Downstairs, in the living room. He's sitting peacefully in his chair," she said quietly, with choppy words.

The family doctor had issued the death certificate; second heart attack.

Sigurd was listening to the engine noise of the hearse when suddenly Gaby was standing next to him.

He had not heard her coming at all. His mother was lying in bed with a weak sedative that the family doctor had given her before he had left.

"Oh, Sigurd, I'm so sorry about everything!"

Gaby sat down next to him on the couch and took his hands in hers.

He stared at the armchair where his father had been sitting when he had simply walked away from them.

There was nothing but emptiness in Sigurd's head. No thoughts, no rebellion against the final, only emptiness.

His mind had not yet properly recovered from the separation from his nanite body.

The still para-psychically gifted mind was trying to recover almost extinct memory of what had happened.

The fate tablets had changed his soul, his mind as much as the magical energy still present in him in small quantities.

His subconscious had experienced a new kind of quality that still lay dormant deep within him but could erupt at any time.

All that was missing was some kind of initial ignition, that is, an event that interacted with his subconscious, that could build a bridge to his other life, to release the spirit from his body again in a

One such experience was the sudden death of his father.

Elemental forces of infinity, which had burned themselves deeply into his spirit, into his soul, suddenly burst to light.

For fractions of a second, memories appeared that normally no longer existed.