Here Be Dragons: Book 1 of the Emergence Series

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400"></span><span style="font-weight: 400">[Premise: First contact between dragons and humans, with technology at dawn of the information age. Book 1 complete, Book 2 writing in progress.</span>]</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">What if, billions of years ago, Earth formed a little differently?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">A bit less iron, a bit more water, and the first humans evolve upon a lone continent, surrounded by vast oceans that span 97.5% of the planet's surface.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">In the millennia that follow, mankind believes their island to be the only in existence – until the first satellites reveal the existence of two distant lands.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Galvanized by this groundbreaking discovery, humanity sends its best and brightest on an expedition, only for a series of disasters to wipe out all but one of the crew. </span>Now, Doctor Alexander Pryce has the honor of being the first and only man to step foot upon a foreign continent.</p> <p>Alone, Pryce struggles to carry on his comrade's mission, and in doing so draws the attention of one of <span style="font-weight: 400">the island's native inhabitants: an inquisitive and highly intelligent dragon.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Desolate but far from alone, Pryce begins the painstaking process of learning to </span><span style="font-weight: 400">communicate with an alien species, and in so doing becomes the sole representative of humanity – one whose actions will determine the future of both their species.</span></p> <hr> <p><em>A work inspired by the Temeraire series, Project Hail Mary, and The Martian.<br>Special thanks to VikasRao and Rackiera for <span>providing and inspiring ideas for the speculative evolution</span>.</em></p> <hr> <p><em>Links:<br><a href="https://discord.gg/4KqURzbyEw" rel="noopener ugc nofollow">Discord server</a></em><em>, where you can ask me whatever questions you like and I'll probably answer them. (Assuming the answer doesn't involve heavy spoilers)</em><em></em></p> <p><em><a href="https://ko-fi.com/rackiera" rel="noopener ugc nofollow">Ko-fi</a>, if you want to send something my way. Don't worry about the different username, I have an arrangement with Rackiera.</em></p> <p><em><a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/rackie" rel="noopener ugc nofollow">Paypal</a>, same as the above.</em></p> <p><i>Fantastic <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rackiera.art/post/3lxn3yqwks72h" rel="noopener ugc nofollow">Cover Art</a> by Rackiera!</i></p>

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• enHuman translation

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