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Realware
- Ware, Book 4
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Series: Ware, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
It's 2054, and Phil Gottner doesn't know where his life is. His girlfriend is hooked on merge, a drug used in "bacteria-style" sex. His father has just been swallowed by a hyperspatial anomaly that materialized from a piece of art designed to project images of four-dimensional objects into three-dimensional space. Then, at the funeral, Phil meets and falls in love with Yoke Starr-Mydol, a young lovely visiting from the Moon.
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