BioSynth | ONC 2021 WINNER | MM Romance | Sci-Fi | Complete
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  • Reads 15,587
  • Votes 1,899
  • Parts 20
  • Time 3h 28m
Complete, First published Feb 03, 2021
Mature
[ONC 2021 WINNER: 3rd place] When a car accident reveals a shocking secret even he didn't know about himself, an android finds himself hunted by his own husband.

BioSynth is one half of a duology of novellas. Both follow the same sequence of events from different PoVs. BioSynth is Quentin's tale; SynTracker is Ian's. Collectively, they're known as Syn.

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Photographer Quentin Morgan has almost everything he could ask for. With a dream job that takes him all over the world, married to the love of his life for the past eight years, it's only his husband's line of work that leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Ian is a SynTracker, someone who hunts down BioSynths - obsolete yet incredibly dangerous synthetic self-aware weapons that can pass as humans - and returns them to the government, to be reprogrammed and repurposed. Quentin finds the job distasteful, but Ian says they're weapons, and weapons don't weep. 

A car crash that could have killed Quentin reveals the shocking truth: he, himself, is a BioSynth. 

Hurt, scared, and now hunted by the man he loves, who thinks him an impostor, Quentin is thrown into a suddenly hostile world, where the stakes are his very existence.

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BioSynth was written for the Open Novella Contest 2021 and is based on prompt #4: You're a weapon, and weapons don't weep. It features a romance between two men.

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ONC Winner: 3rd Place
ONC Round One Ambassador Pick
Speculative Fiction Awards, Sci-Fi Category: Winner
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