The Extinction Trials

by A.G. Riddle

The Birthright was written to change that. This book is an owner’s manual for a human mind. If you read it and do the maintenance it recommends, your mind will run smoothly. It will break down less often, and in the end, it will take you to your birthright. Indeed, a well-tuned mind is the only road to true and lasting happiness.

“An artificial intelligence uprising. Alien invasion. Some even think it’s the government.”

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“What do you mean, you don’t know?” The older man asked. “How can you not know where we are?” “Because, like you, I was unconscious when I was brought here. What I do know is that the world you remember is gone.” “What?” Owen said. “How?” “The coastlines have changed. The cities you knew no longer exist. Same for the states and nations and corporations and everything else. The world. Is gone.”

“The Extinction Trials.” The room fell silent. Bryce took a step closer. “It’s an experiment to restart the human race after a catastrophic global event. That event has occurred. We call the event The Change. Our goal here is to find a cohort that can survive in the world after The Change. That is the key to saving what’s left of the human race.”

It’s funny how our minds get locked into our own vision of how things are going to be. If it’s different from that, we resist, even if it’s better.

The statement instantly struck Owen as odd. Why? There was something about it… “Crossbow?”

we don’t always remember people—or what they do to us—but we remember how they make us feel.

We say that we spend time for a reason—time is a currency. In the end, it’s the only currency that matters.”