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    Apeiron, Aziz
    Apeiron, Aziz
    Apeiron, Aziz
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    Apeiron, Aziz

    By James White

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    A journalist trapped in a soul-destroying job. A mysterious code hidden in a series of newspaper articles. One damaged god seeking redemption. All collide in one fateful interview certain to change lives and alter the future in unimaginable ways. "Apeiron, Aziz" is a 6368 word science fiction short story in the vein of Philip K. Dick.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames White
    Release dateJun 23, 2011
    ISBN9781466038523
    Apeiron, Aziz
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    James White

    Dr. James White is Professor of Plant Biology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Dr. White obtained the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Botany and Plant Pathology/Mycology from Auburn University, Alabama, and the Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Texas, Austin in 1987. Dr. White specializes in symbiosis research, particularly endophytic microbes. He is the author of more than 400 articles, and author and editor of reference books on the biology, taxonomy, and phylogeny of microbial endophytes, including Biotechnology of Acremonium Endophytes of Grasses (1994), Microbial Endophytes (2000), The Clavicipitalean Fungi (2004), The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem (2005; 2016), Defensive Mutualism in Microbial Symbiosis (2009) and Seed Endophytes: Biology and Biotechnology (2019). He and students in his lab are exploring diversity of endophytic and biostimulant microbes and the various impacts that they have on host plants.

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      Apeiron, Aziz - James White

      Apeiron, Aziz

      by

      James Michael White

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2000

      James Michael White

      Cover art

      Copyright © 2011

      by Sapular L. Waheem

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      A STATE OF BEING…

      Aziz walked with his hands in the pockets of his faded and out-of-fashion black jeans, now gray and worn through at the cuffs, pockets and waist. He shivered in his too-small gray leather jacket, his dark and unshaven face looking paranoid and terroristic enough behind mirrored shades that people went out of their way to avoid him on the sidewalk. He had just turned thirty, officially, at two a.m. this morning, and that pissed him off; tick off another year of going nowhere.

      Cold wind blew down from Manhattan’s tall buildings, making his teeth chatter, his gait unsteady in gusts like the impersonal breath of the gods trying to puff out a flame. Curse them all. Curse whatever made him what he was. Curse the special talent and the special knowledge with which he was, seventeen years now, cursed.

      Seventeen years! He shook his fist at the sky, he, the unbeliever, who believed only that he needed something

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