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Five Lives: A Novel in Five Lifetimes
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 21 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Five lifetimes. One man, one woman. One question nobody asked.
A Neanderthal comes home with empty hands and climbs a mountain to lead the hunters away from his cave.
A boy on a grain wall in Egypt gives up a country and a god to walk east with a girl and four thousand strangers.
A colonel in Napoleon's army throws away a career on a street corner in four minutes.
An engineer in 1963 finds a Yugoslav woman at his desk at four in the morning with his clearance in her hand - and opens the door for her.
And a boy eleven days old holds a machine's hand all the way to the incinerator.
Then two people wake in a white room. The simulation took forty-seven minutes. It was a gift from her parents - and only one of them was being scored.
He passes, with one of the highest results the researcher has ever seen. He is delighted.
She reads the results, and laughs, and then asks a question nobody has an answer for.
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