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Shadow and Steel

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Reads 2,382
Votes 556
Parts 23
Time 4h 6m

🏆 Chosen as Sci-Fi Story of the Month by Wattpad's @ScienceFiction.
🏆 Featured on Wattpad's @ShortStory.
🏆 Awarded Best Science Fiction at the October 2024 Flames Awards.
🏆 Chosen as Book of the Month by @CroodsGirl

Shadow and Steel: A Sci-Fi Short Story Series.

In a time when mankind has reached the stars, the light of progress does not shine upon all. On the fringes of known space, survival is a brutal dance of skill, cunning, and ruthlessness. 

Meet a hustler chasing the next score; a doctor trying to mend a broken world; an enforcer wrestling his demons; and a pilot who bends the rules of the sky. Each fights their own battles, until their lives become entangled in a web of dangerous alliances, shifting loyalties, and interstellar power struggles.

Caught between blaster shoot-outs, high-speed starship chases and an unforgiving universe that devours the weak, the line between good and evil is as blurred as the stars themselves.

Because in the dark corners of space, you either bleed out in Shadow or carve your path on Steel.

Content Warning: This series contains violence, gore, death, harassment, strong language, drug use, psychological trauma, and mature situations. Reader discretion is advised.All Rights Reserved

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