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Exaptation

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Reads 691
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Parts 16
Time 2h 37m

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Dr. Joakim Mayor and his team learn that their company's new multiple sclerosis drug has surprising side effects in 10% of patients who take it. Only Hale Larrikin, a patient who found his own way around the negative effects holds clues to help other patients. But Dr. Larrikin also holds a terrifying secret.

This slow-burning, mind-bending science fiction novel will challenge the way you think about thinking forever.All Rights Reserved

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Efferent

In the process of revamping this profile and this novel... thanks for your patience! (Estimated time of arrival: 12/01/19) "What are we?" I muttered in awe. "Efferent." He cocked his head slightly to the side. "Although, I do not believe that anyone is truly like you, Ardyn Danvers. You are something different altogether. You are something far more superior." In a society dictated by intellectual prowess and where your status is determined by your level of brain function, Ardyn Danvers finds herself on her knees with a historically low percentage. With few choices left to make, and a dim future ahead of her, Ardyn is resigned to joining the rest of the bottom feeders in the gutter. But when an esoteric clinic of scientists develop a serum meant to increase tested brain function, they threaten to turn the nation's establishment on its head and heighten government control. Intending to level the division between the high percentages and the low, they had expected to use the serum to bridge the gap between the undesirables at the foot of the hierarchy to the elite standing at the pinnacle. What they did not expect, however, were the side effects. © 2017 AaPThomps all rights reserved. COMPLETED FIRST DRAFT. Cover by @-wanderes