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When Commander Tauran's young son, Lausus, is diagnosed as one of the despised changeling mutants, Tauran believes the government assurances that his boy will be treated well. His less trusting wife, Beatra, however, flees with Lausus to a changeling planet. After years of leading troops into battles against the mutants, while tirelessly searching for signs of Beatra and Lausus, Tauran seizes on an offer from a trusted, yet rogue, scientist with a time travel device that will enable Tauran to harvest fresh DNA from humans before Earth's nuclear wars. Teamed with three others-a scientist, a scholar, and a war criminal with nothing to prove-Tauran maxes out the time travel device, arriving to Earth's first century where he encounters a healer from an abandoned religious sect. Faced with more of a mystery than ever, Tauran determines to learn the healer's secrets or risk kidnapping him for his DNA to save Lausus, purge the mutation, and end the war between humans and their mutant offspring. But Tauran and his team have to move fast-before mutants from their own era overrun the team's time travel site on Terra, and before a government conspiracy to prolong the war destroys what's left of humanity's home world with a final nuclear blast.

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An intricate, compelling exploration of humanity and its core flaws and values. KIRKUS REVIEWS A fantastic space opera that balances science and faith without short-changing either . . . Changelings: Insurgence wrestles with the idea of using technology to solve humanity's most pressing problems. P. L. Tavormina, Caltech geneticist and climate fiction author of Aerovoyant and Telomeric Changelings: Insurgence is a master class in world building and a profound meditation on loneliness, AI, and what doesn't compute. Defiant, brilliant, and suspenseful, Corley's novel transports the reader to uncanny lands where science serves war and a warrior, Tauran, is divided from more than just his family. I couldn't put it down. You'll want to read this one twice. M.C. Armstrong, author American Delphi and The Mysteries of Haditha A fascinating and cinematic dystopia . . . Corley's sci-fi adventure is an insightful and compulsive page-turner. Iain King CBE, author of Secrets of the Last Nazi Corley's inspired vision wonderfully depicts human conflict as a war for survival fought across time and the galaxies and as intimate discord within family relations and the individual heart. Peter Molin, author of Time Now: The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in Art, Film, and Literature X-Men meets Battlestar Galactica, yet wholly original, Changelings: Insurgence is a meditation on progress, knowledge, duty, love, loyalty, and, above all, what it means to be human. Urgent and heartfelt, and a gripping ride. Please tell me there's a sequel! Lauren Kay Johnson, author of The Fine Art of Camouflage

A fantastic space opera that balances science and faith without short-changing either . . . Changelings: Insurgence wrestles with the idea of using technology to solve humanity's most pressing problems. P. L. Tavormina, Caltech geneticist and climate fiction author of Aerovoyant and Telomeric Changelings: Insurgence is a master class in world building and a profound meditation on loneliness, AI, and what doesn't compute. Defiant, brilliant, and suspenseful, Corley's novel transports the reader to uncanny lands where science serves war and a warrior, Tauran, is divided from more than just his family. I couldn't put it down. You'll want to read this one twice. M.C. Armstrong, author American Delphi and The Mysteries of Haditha A fascinating and cinematic dystopia . . . Corley's sci-fi adventure is an insightful and compulsive page-turner. Iain King CBE, author of Secrets of the Last Nazi Corley's inspired vision wonderfully depicts human conflict as a war for survival fought across time and the galaxies and as intimate discord within family relations and the individual heart. Peter Molin, author of Time Now: The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in Art, Film, and Literature X-Men meets Battlestar Galactica, yet wholly original, Changelings: Insurgence is a meditation on progress, knowledge, duty, love, loyalty, and, above all, what it means to be human. Urgent and heartfelt, and a gripping ride. Please tell me there's a sequel! Lauren Kay Johnson, author of The Fine Art of Camouflage

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Liam Corley is an award-winning poet and scholar. Changelings Insurgence is his first work of fiction. He is a professor of American Literature at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His work on literature and war has been published in War, Literature, & the Arts, College English, and the Journal of Veterans Studies and has been supported with a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Liam is the author of Bayard Taylor: Determined Dreamer of America's Rise, 1825-1878 (Bucknell University Press, 2014). A debut poetry collection, unwound, came out from Middle West Press in 2023. His poems can also be found in Strange Horizons, Chautauqua, First Things, Badlands, Inlandia, The Line Literary, O-Dark-Thirty, and Wrath-Bearing Tree. Since 2004, Liam has served in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He has completed multiple deployments, including ones to Afghanistan and Iraq, and throughout the Pacific area of operations. He lives in Riverside, California, with his wife and four children.

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