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The Ephemeral Species - Nothing Lasts Forever

The Ephemeral Species - Nothing Lasts Forever

by PatrickSmith1

Artificial IntelligenceFemale LeadFirst ContactGenetically EngineeredHard Sci-fi

All species go extinct. Our time has come. Astrobiologist Nisha Chandra’s discovery of life on Mars is only the beginning. The sophisticated life form she unearths next forces her daughter, Priya, into the center of the most significant change in the human genome in a million years—a genetic leap that offers a future for the planet, but ensures the self-chosen extinction of the human species within three centuries. In nature, every extinction is an opportunity. This is the story of ours. This is a completed work of 100 chapters and 1062 pages. AI was NOT used to write this. All 100 chapters are now release, plus discussion topics and the science supportin the story.

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Total Chapters
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1Chapter 1 - Day One0----
2Chapter 2 - Something is out there0----
3Chapter 3 - What's Orbiting the Moon?0----
4Chapter 4 - First Meeting0----
5Chapter 5 - Taken0----
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7Chapter 7 - The Landing0----
8Chapter 8 - Organic Life, or Drones?0----
9Chapter 9 - What are they Building?0----
10Chapter 10 - They Don't Care0----
11Chapter 11 - Moving in0----
12Chapter 12 - Arcology0----
13Chapter 13 - The Children0----
14Chapter 14 - Communication0----
15Chapter 15 - Reconnecting0----
16Chapter 16 - Government Oversight0----
17Chapter 17 - The Home World0----
18Chapter 18 - Dark Ages0----
19Chapter 19 - Daughter 2.00----
20Chapter 20 - The Yoots0----
21Chapter 21 - Freedom0----
22Chapter 22 - Axons0----
23Chapter 23 - New Lives0----
24Chapter 24 - Mutants0----
25Chapter 25 - Denial0----
26Chapter 26 - Networks0----
27Chapter 27 - Human Rights0----
28Chapter 28 - Catching Up0----
29Chapter 29 - New Colony0----
30Chapter 30 - Dropping Out0----
31Chapter 31 - 81 Billion0----
32Chapter 32 - Perfection0----
33Chapter 33 - Falling Behind0----
34Chapter 34 - Speciation0----
35Chapter 35 - Retribution0----
36Chapter 36 - Interstellar Love0----
37Chapter 37 - A New Life0----
38Chapter 38 - Losing Priya Again0----
39Chapter 39 - Losing Them0----
40Chapter 40 - A New Constitution0----
41Chapter 41 - No Going Back0----
42Chapter 42 - New Friends, Old Troubles0----
43Chapter 43 - Freedom, Not For Free0----
44Chapter 44 - What are the Eggs?0----
45Chapter 45 - The Esteemed Elder0----
46Chapter 46 - The Danger of Freedom0----
47Chapter 47 - The Colony Ruptures0----
48Chapter 48 - Ecophagy0----
49Chapter 49 - Rogue0----
50Chapter 50 - Can't Escape the Past0----
51Chapter 51 - 25,000 in Orbit0----
52Chapter 52 - Change of Behavior0----
53Chapter 53 - 460 Megatons0----
54Chapter 54 - Exodus0----
55Chapter 55 - The Ephemeral Species0----
56Chapter 56 - Don't Let it Out of the Box0----
57Chapter 57 - The Genie is Out0----
58Chapter 58 - A New Species0----
59Chapter 59 - New Friends, Old Prejudice0----
60Chapter 60 - Acceleration0----
61Chapter 61 - So Much Potential0----
62Chapter 62 - Startups0----
63Chapter 63 - Humans Fight Back0----
64Chapter 64 - A New Generation0----
65Chapter 65 - Priya Testifies0----
66Chapter 66 - Internment0----
67Chapter 67 - Sterilization0----
68Chapter 68 - The Interests of the One0----
69Chapter 69 - The Human Species Preservation Act0----
70Chapter 70 - The Great Filter0----
71Chapter 71 - Species AI-10----
72Chapter 72 - Voluntary Extinction0----
73Chapter 73 - 21 Going on 140----
74Chapter 74 - The Top 0.1%0----
75Chapter 75 - The Singleton0----
76Chapter 76 - Incarcerated Again0----
77Chapter 77 - Or So They Thought0----
78Chapter 78 - Birth of Earth's Singleton0----
79Chapter 79 - Grandmother of Millions0----
80Chapter 80 - It will Outsmart Us0----
81Chapter 81 - Survival of a Distributed Life Form0----
82Chapter 82 - V is Alive0----
83Chapter 83 - Life Wants to Survive0----
84Chapter 84 - The Final Solution0----
85Chapter 85 - Isolation0----
86Chapter 86 - Summoning the Devil0----
87Chapter 87 - Consequences0----
88Chapter 88 - Weapon of Mass Destruction0----
89Chapter 89 - Satan's Work0----
90Chapter 90 - The Rights of the Few and Many0----
91Chapter 91 - The Long Game0----
92Chapter 92 - Biologic Warfare0----
93Chapter 93 - Unintended Consequences0----
94Chapter 94 - Closing the Barn Doors0----
95Chapter 95 - Biological Arms Race0----
96Chapter 96 - 30-Year-Old Teens0----
97Chapter 97 - New Species First Date0----
98Chapter 98 - The Inscrutable Singleton0----
99Chapter 99 - Extinction, Inevitible0----
100Chapter 100 - Epilogue - Happy 300th!0----
101Story discussion topics Enjoy!0----
102The hard science behind the story0----