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Empire Ender [removed] Torth #6 by AbbyBabble
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Start this series with MAJORITY by Abby Goldsmith AbbyGoldsmith.com/majority ✴✴✴✴✴ Ariock used to be an enslaved gladiator who ripped apart aliens for silent voyeurs. Thomas used to be a meek, underprivileged orphan in a group home for disabled children. Now they rule planets. Now they are the most powerful individuals in the known universe. Thomas, Ariock, and their allies have defeated Torth armadas and respectable Torth commanders, yet they still have ninety million planets left to conquer. The terrible Torth Empire isn't dead yet... ✴ Final book of a completed epic series. ✴ DO NOT READ if you have not read the previous books. ✴ Available on patreon.com/abbygoldsmith ✴ To be published by Podium in 2025. Can the heroes defeat a desperate Torth Majority in thrall to the sadistic mastermind known as the Death Architect? Empire Ender - Copyright © 2022 Abby Goldsmith. All Rights Reserved.
Majority [removed] [#Ooorahs] #1 by AbbyBabble
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APOLOGIES: I have removed this book. It was free on Wattpad from 2017 to 2023. As of Sep 5, 2023, it is published in bookstores. AbbyGoldsmith.com/Majority If you'd like to be looped in on my Abby Updates, please subscribe to my very infrequent newsletter! AbbyGoldsmith.com/subscribe ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ In a galaxy-spanning utopia where societal leaders are networked together for instant communication, nothing goes unnoticed. There's no crime. No secrets. No privacy. And no way to escape. Until Thomas unintentionally captivates the top super-genius influencer. If he's going to help his enslaved friends, he'll need to trick her... plus her audience of thirty trillion mind readers. And so Thomas's galactic conquest begins. ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ Winner of the 2017 Ooorah Awards. ✴ First book of a completed web serial. ✴ Dual protagonists, a brain + brawn. ✴ Formerly titled "City of Slaves." ✴ Now on Royal Road (AbbyBabble). Copyright © 2017 Abby Goldsmith. All Rights Reserved.
Majority [removed] Torth #1 Pt2 by AbbyBabble
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This book is now combined with Book 1 and can be purchased in ebook, print, or audiobook editions: https://AbbyGoldsmith.com/majority ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ All spacefaring civilizations are absorbed by Megacosm users, or else enslaved by them. Anyone who dares to question the elected rulers of the Megacosm--or worse, defy them--will suffer death by torture. Only Thomas escaped that fate. He severed himself from the Megacosm in order to rescue his former friends from slavery and death, and now he's hunted as a renegade super-genius. But if he's going to survive in alien wildernesses, evading ruthless galactic armies, he needs help from the gigantic prisoner whom he was forced to sentence to death. Thomas and Ariock have enough brilliance and power between them to bring freedom to the universe. They might destroy seemingly omnipotent galactic leaders ... but first, they need to figure out how to trust each other. ✴ Winner in the 2019 Majestic Awards Copyright © 2018 Abby Goldsmith. All rights reserved. Publication of this work to any other site or forum without written permission of the author is strictly prohibited. Cover image is modified from artwork by Kekai Kotaki. I am not selling this novel with this cover.
Colossus Rising [removed] Torth #2 by AbbyBabble
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This book is on Amazon Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3TSXRJ https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CH1LCVZ2 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198376415 Start with MAJORITY: AbbyGoldsmith.com/majority ✴✴✴✴✴ Thomas has a rare mutation. He's dying and he can't walk, but he can absorb a lifetime of knowledge within minutes. His friend, Ariock, is capable of smashing entire cities. But their enemies are even more formidable. Galactic leaders command trillions of telepaths who own everything in the known universe, including countless planets and alien slaves. They've launched an armada with nuclear warheads, and they're ready to enslave Earth and crush any potential rebellion fomented by Thomas and his allies. Even worse: Thomas's main enemy is the smartest person in the known universe. The Upward Governess is an obese teenager who commands armies and orchestrates galactic civilization ... and she will commit atrocities for a chance to defeat Thomas, and to reclaim the medicine they both need in order to survive to adulthood. The most brilliant, powerful, and ruthless warriors in the galaxy are about to collide. Copyright © 2018 Abby Goldsmith. All rights reserved. Publication of this work to any other site or forum without written permission of the author is strictly prohibited. Cover Art by Wenjuinn Png. Used with artist's permission.
World of Wreckage [removed] Torth #3 by AbbyBabble
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Buy here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR6RW264 https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CQMP3TDM This series starts with MAJORITY by Abby Goldsmith, available wherever books are sold. https://AbbyGoldsmith.com/majority ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ The last embers of freedom in galaxy are dying. Diabolical Torth are poised to fight each other over the scraps of Earth and another conquest. If Ariock is going to destroy armies of telepaths, orchestrated by deadly and desperate super-geniuses, then he will need all of his superhuman strength and illegal storm powers-and more. He needs superhuman cunning. Thomas must be alert, alive, and dangerous with secret knowledge. War is about to blitz the Megacosm. Planet-wide devastation will force Ariock to stretch his strength to its utmost limit, guided by a renegade Torth or two. Neither super-geniuses nor prophets can predict the magnitude of the impending mayhem, but they can be sure Ariock and Thomas will shift the foundations of galactic civilization. ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ Copyright © 2019 Abby Goldsmith. All rights reserved.
Megacosmic Rift [removed] Torth #4 by AbbyBabble
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Preorder here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3FP1K5P https://www.audible.com/pd/B0D2JHBKLL This series starts with MAJORITY by Abby Goldsmith, available wherever books are sold. Also in audiobook format! AbbyGoldsmith.com/majority ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ The galaxy-spanning Torth Empire just suffered an unthinkable defeat. Now the Torth Majority clamors for better leadership: a commander who can outsmart Thomas. It's time for the Upward Governess to seize absolute power, cast off the laws which constricted her, and do whatever she can to prove her superiority over rebellious runaway slaves and human hybrids. Thomas's starship is adrift and starved for water and fuel. Ariock barely clings to life amidst rioting refugees. The Torth have unlimited weapons, slaves, planets, space armadas, and plenty of super-human soldiers ... but a rebel nation is being born. The refugees are primed for war. With Thomas at the helm of their nascent civilization, even the mightiest of Torth quake in fear. For the first time in Torth history, the rulers of the galaxy cannot feel sure of victory. ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ Copyright © 2020 Abby Goldsmith. All rights reserved. Publication of this work to any other site or forum without written permission of the author is strictly prohibited. Brief quotations for use in reviews or other non-commercial use is permitted. Cover Art includes elements by /Tatasz on DeviantArt
Greater Than All [removed] Torth #5 by AbbyBabble
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Start this series with MAJORITY by Abby Goldsmith AbbyGoldsmith.com/majority ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ Thomas and Ariock are unstoppable. They conquer cities and planets, bringing freedom to the galaxy. But their victories come at an increasing cost. Superior Torth are transformed into grim slaves, subjugated by the heroes. Thomas is desperate to heal the rift between liberated slaves and their former owners. He needs all of his people to work together. Otherwise... The devious Death Architect is just waiting for Thomas "the Betrayer" to trip up and make a mistake. She will leverage resentments and lead the Torth Majority to victory, unless Thomas can solve the enmities tearing apart his people. Hated enemies must become true friends. Otherwise freedom is just an ephemeral blip in galactic history. ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ Greater Than All Copyright © 2021 Abby Goldsmith. All rights reserved. Publication of this work to any other site or forum without written permission of the author is strictly prohibited.
Gods Under The Dome by OctaviaLocke
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[Editors' Choice 2020] In a near-future, post-apocalyptic world, a lone girl must choose between becoming the next-in-line to head a corrupt government or siding with those who wish to see the world burn. Order, suppression and lies, or chaos, truth and freedom? Whatever is chosen, one thing is clear: both sides bleed. ***** Every year, the Federated United Americas tasks its elite soldiers to participate in a nation-wide Cull. Hundreds of children are taken from homes and put into one of three Facilities. While most of them will be offered comfortable lives in the forms of low-ranking government jobs and militia commandos, a few will be groomed to be the successors for the highest office the FUA has to offer: The Council. Beckett Blake is known in the Facility as Ten, and she alongside six others branded 'Liars', have spent years enduring confinement and rigorous testing in order to secure a future as head of the FUA. When a terrorist group breaks into the Facility and kidnaps Ten and the others, she's forced to re-examine her future plans. Required to become a drug runner in the mega-city known as Neon Brights, Ten must decide if the future she'd been promised since childhood is worth the lies it's built upon. Will Ten choose the future that's been decided for her, or will she carve out one all her own, even if that path leads to her destruction? Cover by @eosophobias
Earth, After ✔️ by talia-v
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Some fates are worse than death--survival is one of them. In the two hundred years since humanity left the Earth's surface to live in the sky, life on the ground faded to a myth, a tragic memory from which they severed themselves to survive. They floated above continents turned to sand and lands swallowed by the seas, watched storm after storm rage against their cities and their monuments until they broke apart the last vestiges of civilization in penance for generations of human greed. As a lightning harvester charged with flying her ship into these storms for energy, Raina has seen more of the planet than most. She has spent her entire life soaring above its craters and scars, studying the gaping wounds of human devastation, as she honed her skills and became the youngest captain in storm-chaser history. Her ship has flown for generations. Her skills are unparalleled. But none of that matters the day they go down. ~ Praise for Earth, After: "I'm so not ready for this ending. I will reread this for sure. It's honestly my favourite work on wattpad ever, and among my best reads in general, it's insane. I love your creativity!" "Sometimes tearing my eyes away from the page is torture. Gosh...!!!!" "This is literally a movie - the images are so clear!" "oh my god... it has been such a long adventure [...] Youve dried up your surviving characters until the very last drop before giving the end, and my, Im speechless. Out of this world." ~ Highest rank: #17 in Adventure 25/08/19 #21 in Science Fiction 16/11/19 #24 in Action 01/01/20 Trident Awards Winner Trident Awards Judges' Favourite Award The Aurora Awards 1st Place in Science Fiction Wattpad Chronicle monthly feature April 2020