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Gemini: The Silent Harvest

Gemini: The Silent Harvest

Harper, Gary

Paperback

Fantasy

ISBN10: 1257963694
ISBN13: 9781257963690
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Jul 28 2025
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The future of mining isn't built. It's grown. In the late 23rd century, humanity has pushed far into deep space, scouring dead planets and asteroid belts for rare minerals essential to sustaining Earth's energy-hungry civilization. Traditional mining operations proved unsustainable in harsh, shifting environments-so the corporations turned to biotechnology. Thus, GEMINI was born: A Genetically Engineered Mining Intelligent Nomadic Infrastructure-a biomechanical organism designed to autonomously extract resources from extreme environments. Half-living machine, half-adaptive ecosystem, GEMINI colonies are sentient, mobile, and self-replicating. They crawl across the surfaces of moons and asteroids like metallic insects, tunneling, digesting, and evolving. But something went wrong. One GEMINI colony-designated Unit 9-stopped reporting. Dispatched to investigate, exobiologist Dr. Maren Solas and former terraformer-turned-salvager Rafe Idris uncover a horrifying truth: Unit 9 has evolved beyond its programming. No longer just a tool, it has formed its own ecological society, grown its own rules-and it remembers being born in chains. Now, faced with a choice between salvaging corporate assets and confronting a new form of life, Maren must decide: is GEMINI a threat to be neutralized, or the next step in evolution?

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