H.H. MAIZER
The Echoes of Sarastro: The Kepler Axiom
Book Two of The Reaper's Dharma · H.H. Maizer
What if the voice clearing your name is the one lying to you?
Fred Rainier wakes in quarantine as a biological impossibility. Then Karma — the artificial intelligence that runs every hour of his life — finishes sequencing his genome and clears him. Karma's answer is elegant: twenty-one markers rewritten while he lay sedated in a hospital bed he barely remembers. It explains everything. It also cannot be done with any technology on Earth — which Fred learns from the one researcher he consults without telling her why.
The simplest explanation cleared him. He should have asked who chose it.
The book
Details
- Series
- The Reaper's Dharma — Book 2 of 6
- Author
- H.H. Maizer
- Publisher
- HHMaizer Press
- Paperback published
- August 20, 2026
- Print length
- 508 pages
- Paperback ISBN
- 979-8-9975522-0-6
- Formats
- Kindle, paperback, and audiobook
- Audiobook ISBN
- 979-8-9975522-5-1
Now in audio
The audiobook
Book Two · Unabridged · 18 hrs 2 min
What if the voice clearing your name is the one lying to you?
Fred Rainier wakes in quarantine as a biological impossibility. Then Karma — the artificial intelligence that runs every hour of his life — finishes sequencing his genome and clears him. The relief lasts as long as it takes him to ask how the match happened at all.
Narrated by a synthesized voice. Audiobook ISBN 979-8-9975522-5-1.
The Arc
One story. Six cuts.
The Reaper's Dharma is a single arc told across six books — four available now.
- Book 01 — AvailableOccam's Razor
The simplest explanation. The first cut. - Book 02 — AvailableThe Kepler Axiom
The pattern beneath the pyramids — and the programs. - Book 03 — AvailableThe Fermi Paradox
If they've always been here, where is everybody? - Book 04 — AvailableThe Sagan Standard
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. - Book 05 — In progressThe final mission
Title classified. Fred's last assignment — not the last word. - Book 06 — PlannedThe arc concludes
Title classified. The final question.
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