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Part Zero

Part One: The Meeting

Part Two: The Training

Part Three: Deo 7, The First Day

Part Zero Point Five (0.5)

Version 1.0 - 1.9 Handwritten manuscript now entombed in the Smithsonian Institute (as of March 27, 2027)

Version 2.0 - 2.9 Traces the history of the novel as it passes back and forth between analog and digital formats

Version 3.0 - 3.9First "linked" version availible only in Amigaguide format.

Version 4.0 First mass market linked version

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