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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Science fiction
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Harry August is born in 1919, dies near the end of the century, and returns to the same beginning with the memories of every previous life intact. He learns that others share this recursive existence and that the Cronus Club passes knowledge backward through generations while protecting its members. A message from the future warns that the end of the world is accelerating, drawing Harry into a decades-spanning conflict with brilliant fellow immortal Vincent Rankis. Intellectually ambitious and dark, this novel suits readers who enjoy secret societies, twentieth-century history, philosophical science fiction, morally complicated friendships, and time stories focused less on changing one event than on the cumulative consequences of knowledge.
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War, violence, torture, death, and moral ambiguity
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