The Future Machine
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Last published Wed, Jan 27, 2016
Agent Constance faces down a rogue gambler who can't lose. The phenomenon that keeps him winning is named Degradation, and The Agency was put together for the very purpose of saving the world from it. The Man sent to aid Agent Constance brings a strange attitude and a weird machine that could make or break the case.
Read this weekly release for a classic science fiction tale of classic, black-suited investigators who fight to reverse the Degradation: an unravelling of physics itself. Who will turn out to be the true enemy?
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