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The Ollies
Paperback
Publisher: Barrel Coops
Published: Apr 23 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
From candlelit negotiations to quiet acts of courage, this is a story of ropes and brakes, of generosity as strategy and grief as fuel. The choices are human; the consequences are cosmic. And the ending... you won't see it coming.Aberdeen, 2047: a rugged coastal city becomes Earth's unlikely doorway to the stars. When the Ollies-brilliant, brittle refugees-arrive with gifts that can heal and transform, industrial heir Bradley Maxwell inherits his father's fragile alliance and a question no nation is ready to answer: **who gets to decide what a civilization is allowed to become?**Boardrooms turn into war rooms; hospital corridors into ethics courts. Engineers draft Red Rules, clinicians insist on care before custody, and a tribunal of sheriffs and scientists writes law faster than fear can spread. Above it all waits the Mass, an ancient power with its own doctrine of preservation-and a hearing in orbit that may redefine progress itself.
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