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    Dead Sols
    Dead Sols
    Dead Sols
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    Dead Sols

    By Michael Williams

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    Set in the future when sols - people who live life by observing it through digital equipment carried by others in the 'real' world - are being murdered.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Williams
    Release dateJul 1, 2013
    ISBN9781301928057
    Dead Sols
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    Michael Williams

    Michael Williams (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is Emeritus Senior Professor of Old Testament Studies at Calvin Theological Seminary, a member of the NIV Committee on Bible Translation and the Chairman of the NIrV Committee. He is the author of Deception in Genesis, The Prophet and His Message, Basics of Ancient Ugaritic, The Biblical Hebrew Companion for Bible Software Users, How to Read the Bible through the Jesus Lens, Hidden Prophets of the Bible and is editor and contributor of Mishneh Todah. His passion is to provide curious believers with knowledge of the Old Testament and its culture so that they may grow in their comprehension and appreciation of redemptive history and be adequately prepared to promote and defend the faith through word and action. Michael resides in Florida with his wife, Dawn.

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      Dead Sols

      A sol then?

      Looks like. And a pretty hard core one at that. The small room’s many pizza boxes and take-away food wrappings supported the detective’s comment. He continued in the same seen-it-all-before tone. Ran out of money, realised his sol days were finished and rather than leave this rat hole, topped himself.

      His fellow detective wasn’t listening. Instead he was crouching, carefully examining, not the body that lay sprawled beside the overturned chair, but the expensive looking headphones that lay nearby. Ever seen a set of headphones like these?

      Can’t say I have. But then I don’t spend my life listening in on other peoples’ lives. The sanctimonious tone made the crouching detective look up.

      We’ve all done it mate. Detective Geno stood and looked his colleague in the eye. Nothing to be ashamed of. This poor shit just didn’t know when to stop. So many don’t nowadays, and Francis Xavier Geno, who was a father as well as a detective, thought of his son and the hours he spent as a sol, encased in screen-goggles and headphones, linked to a host that took him to places his father’s policeman’s wage could not. Geno shook his head and said, In any case, this sol was murdered.

      * * * * * *

      The view across the barren looking hills wasn’t as good as expected, but the one along the length of the Great Wall itself certainly was. The way it snaked up and down the ridges was astonishing. Let’s go up to the next tower.

      "But this third one already. View same from all." The voice echoed

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