Bottle Born Blues

<p>Artificial life form Shakbout Mansard just wanted a quiet ordinary life with his family. As one of the selected few of the Bottle Born who live as free citizens this was a reasonable ambition.</p><p>Unfortunately Shakbout has dangerous knowledge of a plot to overthrow the government of Mengchi making him a target for both the plotters and the security forces. At the same time the most dangerous bottle born terrorist in the systems wants Shakbout to commit a crime that will ignite a secret systems-wide war between factions of the Natural and the Bottle Born.</p><p>But even these problems are small compared to the secret that Shakbout has been hiding for a decade. Soon he will have to take desperate measures to save those he loves... and the lives of all free bottle born lifeforms across the systems.</p><p><em>This is the large print edition of Bottle Born Blues with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.</em></p>