The Fifth Science

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Customers find this collection of short stories thought-provoking, with one review highlighting its excellent worldbuilding. The book is highly entertaining, with one customer noting how it moves from formulaic to hilarity. Customers praise the writing quality, with one noting the absence of fancy writing styles, and the art style receives positive feedback, with one review describing it as a magnificent work of art. Customers appreciate the intelligent content, with one review highlighting its deep subjects, and find the human characters insightful.

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The Galactic Human Empire was built atop four sciences: logic, physics, psychology, and sociology. Standing on those pillars, humans spent 100,000 years spreading out into the galaxy: warring, exploring, partying — the usual. Then there was the fifth science. And that killed the empire stone dead.

The Fifth Science is a collection of 12 stories, beginning at the start of the Galactic Human Empire and following right through to its final days. We’ll see some untypical things along the way, meet some untypical folk: galactic lighthouses from the distant future, alien tombs from the distant past, murderers, emperors, archaeologists and drunks; mad mathematicians attempting to wake the universe itself up.

And when humans have fallen back into savagery, when the secrets of space folding and perfect wisdom are forgotten, we’ll attend the empire’s deathbed, hold its hand as it goes. Unfortunately that may well only be the beginning.

Our Top Reviews

Reviewer: M.D.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This guy is like the Jed McKenna of futuristic si-fi.
Review: I recommend it. Easy reading but intelligent and thought provoking. Well priced, too (Kindle).MD

Reviewer: Odyssefs Diamantopoulos Pantaleon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Interesting Adventure into Exurb1a’s Mind
Review: Honestly my expectations werent really high going into this. However, there is something in the way that Exurb1a writes that captivates you and keeps you reading and reading. I finished this book in 2 2-hour flights and I enjoyed every minute of it. If you have even an inkling of curiosity about how the future may look I 100% recommend to get this book.P.S. My favorite story was the Lantern. I was really interested in the explanation at the end and the roots of this one as well.

Reviewer: Izadore
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun book
Review: It’s a great book by exurb1a with some really interesting ideas that I’d love to see further explored by some other authors and directors

Reviewer: Matthew Warner
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wow. Just Wow.
Review: I’ve been waiting for a book like this for a long time.Great ideas, world building, and characters. What a great respite from the real world, which is awful right now. My favorite story was “Be Awake, Be Good.” That one was straight-up cinematic and should be adapted to screen.Who is this writer with the weird pen name? I’ll have to seek out more.

Reviewer: Amelia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: My favorite 😍
Review: My all time favorite sci fi book. Really unique to keep telling the story after all the humans are dead. Extremely well written

Reviewer: G@dg3t
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Get this book. A great read by a true master.
Review: After discovering the inspirational content creator on YouTube, I sampled some of his writings and was compelled to dig deeper. What a gift we’ve all been given. I don’t typically write reviews, but if this is a sign for someone to nudge them towards taking a the plunge into supporting the man who is this creative, then I feel justified. I will definitely be getting the rest of his works! Such a mind this fellow has! I hope that his creativity will bring him the means to keep on creating great things. We need more of this in our world. His stories can be taken alone, but nicely tie together the timeline of that universe. He is easily read, and delivers so well you can envision his words come to life like a movie in your mind. Help keep this guy going! If you doubt his talents, be sure to check him out on YouTube. Profound, witty, sarcastic, educated, well spoken, hilarious, inspiring, touching. He may just turn into your next stalking target – he’s that good! I just want to pull a Cathy Bates on him and keep him for my very own. Lol.

Reviewer: Cooper Parlee
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The most beautiful and exciting existential crisis you will ever have.
Review: This book is one of the few artfully-crafted novels where you open it with few expectations, then simply cannot put it down, except in this case, you can’t put it down even though you’re having the worst existential crisis of your life while simultaneously being overwhelmingly excited for the science that might come in the next few years.Exurbia’s relationship with language as a tool has always been able to convey that powerful sense of wonder that exists in the intersection of consciousness as an “oh my god I’m alive and I don’t know how or why” moment and fully realizing the beauty of the universe and futurism at the same time. This book is no exception. This book does a lot of things well, but cannot really be placed into a category on its own. You’ll be whisked away into a world of robots, machine learning, overindulgence, and societal bliss and in one way, the book will be a regress on the dystopic utopian vision optimistic futurists hold. In another way, the book encapsulates that very feeling of smallness that is experienced when you gaze up into the night sky and realize that you are merely a dumb ape on a small rock floating through space in a massive universe and that nothing you have done or will ever do will ever matter and that the pointless societal sand-castle we’re building will just be washed away by the waves of the cosmic oceans of time.I can confidently say I am a better person from reading this book. Nothing has any inherent meaning; that’s for us to decide.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book
Review: Very engaging and fun to read book.The stories build off each other in a satisfying way that makea the reader fill like the stories are set in a living breathing universe

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I’d absolutely vouch for this book anytime. This is a really interesting read. There’s a lot of deep philosophical ideas subtly embedded all throughput. A really good sci-fi read!

Reviewer: Roger Fitch
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I enjoyed this book. I bought it on a whim and found it unexpectedly good. The science itself didn’t matter to me so much as the application and implications toward humanity. I like that someone had the imagination to think this book up. All good fun.

Reviewer: Jay M
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Came early than expected. Delivered fr US to Singapore. Paid almost $30 including shipping. A bit disappointed because of the peeling-off the cover page, thus 3 stars.

Reviewer: RosaS
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Absolutely enraptured me can only recommend!

Reviewer: initialfantasy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A good book to read. I-ve read the prince of milk before this one and it was really really good, not perfect but really good nevertheless. And this one its the same. Keep the good work man