title: The Luck of Han'anga: War of the Second Iteration - Book One
author:  Thomas Watson 
description: The War of the Second Iteration depicts a future in which economics as we know it has come to an end, and Human civilization pursues other priorities. The Great Age of Changes - in which we now live - has long since become something like an asymptotic curve, along which change, both technological and social, comes gradually, slowed in part by the length of time required for a change to spread through the vastness of Human civilization. Humanity spreads steadily outward from star to star, colonizing star systems and bringing life to lifeless places, while preserving native life when they find it. These goals are shared by Humans and the descendants of artificial intelligence, beings known simply as the Artificials. This is the beginning of the story of how this long, quiet episode in the history of the Human species comes to a sudden end, and how Humanity and its allies fight to defend what they have become, and what they hope one day to be.
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  ALL THAT BEDEVILS US
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Tale of the Second Iteration
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  All That Bedevils Us by Thomas Watson
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Thomas Watson
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover Artwork by Fiona Jayde Media
  
  
  Copyright © 2019, All Rights Reserved
  
  
  
  
  
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  Other books by this author:
  
  
  
  
  
  Short Fiction
  
  
  [Chance Encounters — Three Short Stories](https://www.amazon.com/Chance-
  Encounters-Three-Short-Stories-ebook/dp/B01FGOA6OO)
  
  
  [179 Degrees From Now: Four Stories from Just Past the
  Edge](https://www.amazon.com/179-Degrees-Now-Four-Stories-ebook/dp/B076L7N961)
  
  
  
  
  
  The War of the Second Iteration
  
  
  [Book One, The Luck of Han’anga](http://www.amazon.com/Luck-Hananga-Second-
  Iteration-ebook/dp/B0089Q2B22/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339160370&sr=8-1)
  
  
  [Book Two, Founders’ Effect](http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Effect-Second-
  Iteration-
  ebook/dp/B00BFM