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    Project Looking Glass
    Project Looking Glass
    Project Looking Glass
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    Project Looking Glass

    By Mark Anthony Tierno

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    In a future world where Man has uplifted a variety of species to two-legged sentience, the problems that have plagued the world have only gotten worse. Enter Inspector Henry Flaatphut of InterSpec; a former computer hacker now stuck at what amounts to a desk job, he has a 300-pound badger for a boss, a wise-cracking computer named ICy, and a pretty 5-foot feline named Miss Calico for a secretary that he never seems to have time for. A dreadful existence until that one person enters his office who sets him off on a wild search for conspiracies and mayhem on an international scale.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Anthony Tierno
    Release dateMar 17, 2018
    ISBN9780985942526
    Project Looking Glass
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    Mark Anthony Tierno

    A full-time writer with a Masters in Physics, the soul of a poet, and possessed of a unique descriptive voice. The result is an unrivaled talent for the creation of alien vistas, deeply woven plots, characters with distinctive personalities, and dynamic and realistic dialogue. Tierno knows how to put emotions on paper, to draw the reader in and feel the highs and the lows, to cry tears of joy or sadness as if there in the story yourself. He has built entire worlds, their cultures, everything planned down to the smallest detail; even the most fantastic of worlds are still consistent within their own laws, the better to make it seem as real as the Earth upon which we live. Yet all this is but backdrop, the stage to set for incredible plots, and shape the story into something that will draw you in with the force of a black hole.Additionally, Tierno loves crossing genres. High fantasy with some Sci-Fi elements mixed in for one series, cyberpunk with magical realism and high-level conspiracies for another, even one series that blends steampunk with a world of intelligent insects (he calls it “bee-punk”). Let other people write the pure genres, he just loves mixing it up.Describing Mark Anthony Tierno as a full-time writer is probably understating things a bit. 8 to 10 hour session writing well over 12,000 words in a single day is not uncommon. Between the detailed planning and sheer imagination, Mr. Tierno has never known writer’s block, nor yet seen the limit of his creativity.But what really sets him apart is the epic saga, for ‘epic’ is where he starts from. With works that include asingle series that stretches over a dozen books long, 5 million words, and over a couple hundred characters all skillfully juggled, it is not an exaggeration to say that Mark Anthony Tierno goes well beyond what would normally be considered as ‘epic’. He goes beyond epic because he loves the thrill and excitement that comes from the crafting and reading of a grand saga, of creating a world with such detail that one can get lost within it because here is a world that just might really exist... somewhere.

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      Project Looking Glass - Mark Anthony Tierno

      Project Looking Glass

      By

      Mark Anthony Tierno

      Copyright © 1989, 2012 by Mark Anthony Tierno.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publishers, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a newspaper, magazine or journal.

      All characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

      ISBN:  978-0-9859425-2-6

      Published by Vault Of Knowledge

      Printed in the United States of America

      Author's Note:

      The Atomic Horrors and Great Quakes of the late Twentieth Century combined with the Great Pollution Waves of the Early Twenty First produced a tired and dirty world badly in need of a new work-force.  Thus were born the genetic up-lifts of the early Twenty-First Century, as species after species was uplifted into sentience to stand alongside Man in his quest for dominance and greed over an already ravaged world.  It is in this setting that the following tale takes place...

      ***

      It was one of those days that you read about; fog so thick you could cut it with a knife.  I was practicing my hook-shot with the waist-can and in walked this doll.  She sauntered in with that sophisticated air that's usually reserved for royalty.  She was five-and-a-half feet of the best-

      Slam!

      I should probably give up these cheap detective novels but it can get so boring being a class two InterSpec inspector when there's nothing to investigate.  Not when nobody cares about the Interspecies Council in the first place (for history buffs who have been under a rock for the past few decades, InterSpec replaced Interpol when the Council formed and it gained all the popularity of the old U.N.– and we all know what happened to that bunch).

      Intercom buzz.

      Yes, Miss Calico?

      A Mister Smith here to see you.

      You're kidding?!

      There's actually someone with a cliché name like that?

      He's waiting sir.

      Sigh, Send him in.

      I chucked the book in the trashcan.

      My secretary opened the door to let him in.  She's a cat after her name– with the fur in all the right places (hey, I'm not prejudice; as long as it's a good looking female, with the right kind of hole between the–).

      Mr. Smith, sir.

      I daydream too much.

      In walks this balding accountant-type in a beat-up pair of brown flared pants (didn't those go out of style last century) and a dirty-white shirt with a rather bleak-looking polka-dot tie done up more as a noose than anything else.

      The noose-wearer furtively came in and sat down, looking around nervously.  I began thinking that maybe I shouldn't have thrown the book away.

      Inspector Flatfoot?

      That's Flaatphut.

      With a name like mine, I was born for this occupation.

      Yes.  Well, I... I may have something that needs investigation.

      That's what we're here for.

      Yawn.

      Well, hard swallow, there's some odd happenings where I work.

      Isn't there always?

      Such as?

      He paused, wiped his brow, and said, "I think that my co-worker has been

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