Non Sequitur the Equitaur: for the Galactic Core Corps, a Litrpg Fallacy.

No healing potions. No magic. No nanites. No FTL. Just SCIENCE! In six billion years, Andromeda will devour the Milky Way. To survive, the sentient black hole Sagittarius A* hungers for more science. That’s why Earth has a back-up world: Icarus. A former NORAD sergeant loved stories about centaurs, wemics and other tauric races. When he dies, agents of Sgr A* imprint his mind onto his alter ego, an equitaur book smuggler for a devious librarian. His first assignment seems simple: attend a book fair in LitRPG mode.Everything unravels as Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company (TASC est. 1894) shifts the moon’s orbit. Portals fail. Friends are murdered. A gigaton asteroid might skim the planet. Surviving the mayhem requires outwitting adversaries, solving mysteries, optimizing his build, mastering portals and maybe trusting an ivory-billed woodpecker.Fights, trickery, hard science, villains, stat blocks, ignorable math and more.From the Science and Math advisor for NUMB3RS, winner of the Carl Sagan Award for Public Appreciation of Science.