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A hunter disturbs war-vets in a nightmare wire prison.

An unknown prisoner arrives in a prison constructed entirely of wire cages, so vast the cages can only be reached by shuttle. The prisoner is under constant watch from the tower – they don’t know his name – they don’t know what he did. His arrival electrifies the other prisoners. Some are frightened of him. Some want to kill him. Some begin to remember a forgotten war. When an agent is sent in to interrogate him, he turns her telepathic powers against her. And then the lights go out.

Extract: The trial had lasted 198 000 seconds. Whacked on the drugs they had given him, he could only remember it in flashes. The faces at the trial, all turning to watch him, expressionless, convicting him for something they didn’t understand, the judge pretending that it was a normal case, nothing unusual, nothing galactic. Another flash and he was given a choice. Life sentence or execution. Life sentence meant escape so he chose it.

The Exodus Sequence: Each novelette in the Exodus Sequence is a standalone story. They don’t have to be read in order. They are not in any way connected like chapters in a book. They vary in style and character, time and place. However, the mystery unfolds as the sequence progresses, hence the numbering. To follow this unfolding, the sequence is best read in order.

A novelette is, by definition, longer than a short story but not as long as a novella.