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A Father's Request
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Series: Science Fiction Singles
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ISBN13: 9798188265311
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the distant frontier of human expansion, some places are too remote to matter-and too dangerous to forget. When Richard Maddock Vyrnwy inherits controlling interest in his family's holdings, he expects legal complexity, not moral collision. But buried in the archives is a burial record that reshapes everything he believed about his parents. His mother, Rhiannon Vyrnwy, rests in a remote survey zone designated Outer Survey Object VG-4471-a place officially classified as unviable, unreachable, and economically irrelevant. And his father, Gethryn Maddock Vyrnwy, left behind a final request:
He is to be buried there as well. What begins as a matter of estate execution becomes something far larger when corporate stakeholders intervene. Vyrnwy Holdings proposes a more appropriate solution: relocation to a curated memorial world, complete with accessible transport routes, heritage hotels, and controlled remembrance experiences. A legacy that can be visited. Managed. Monetized. Richard must decide whether to comply with a system that promises comfort-or honor a request that leads into uncharted space, where navigation hazards drift without warning and memory has never been officially recorded. But the deeper he investigates VG-4471, the more he realizes the truth was never about where his parents died. It was about where they chose to remain. And what it means when a corporation decides even death should be optimized.
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