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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 101 All the Power of the Enemy, is now posted.

Episode 101 All the Power of the Enemy

Colonel Lost must face the combined might of gigantic warlords, unearthly superscience, time paradox, and the unseen powers of Hell. But he is not alone. Fyodor Poyarok utters words from beyond the world, and the chamber floor beneath the Great Dome of the Science Gods becomes a lake of blood.

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 100 Murder of The High Master , is now posted.

Episode 100 Murder of The High Master

Colonel Lost confronts the bridegroom of his beloved, and the guard of a thousand gargantuan warlord. All hope is lost! Why, then, does the lovely Cynisca smile and say the foe is already defeated?

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 99 Under the Great Dome of the Science Gods , is now posted.

Episode 99 Under the Great Dome of the Science Gods

Colonel Lost enters battle, and the hellish truth of the unseen allies of the Eighth Men, the science gods, comes to light.

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 98 The Narthex of the Eternity Gate , is now posted.

Episode 98 The Narthex of the Eternity Gate

Colonel Lost, separated from his friends, enters by secret means into the great dome where the Gate of Eternity opens its eye into the firmament of time. He sees the abducted bride passing by in eerie procession, and follows, silent as a hunting cat, his mighty elephant gun ready for action. He is taken unawares by a flare of light: all eyes turn and see him plainly. With a rush, the enemy falls upon the lone man.

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 97 Lambswool of the Lake of Light, is now posted.

Episode 97 Lambswool of the Lake of Light

Colonel Lost discovers a secret way into the great onyx dome where the lovely Cynisca is being held. He receives help from strange and unexpected hands, and a stranger homage.

Fyodor tells his tale, and Preston Lost learns of the eerie, otherworldly roots of the slave revolt, ignited by Fyodor, that lit the mighty imperial city afire.

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 96 Hunter and Hunted

Posted August 7, 2019 By John C Wright

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 96 Hunter and Hunted, is now posted.

Episode 96 Hunter and Hunted

Colonel Lost finds the Imperial hunting party just as they have brought Fyodor, weak and wounded, to his final ground. The weapons of seven ages of man are at the command of the eccentric big game hunter. Will they be sufficient to overcome the wrath of the hellish and majestic Emperor himself, his servitors, barons, vavasors, dark knights, huntsmen, hounds, fighting slaves and war-mastodon?

And who is the Holy Hermit of which the Emperor speaks? What message carries he? Why is it forbidden to speak a word against the Wind?

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 95 Fortress of Fortresses, is now posted.

Episode 95 Fortress of Fortresses

Colonel Lost beholds the ancient, unconquerable might of the vast fortress-city of Xurac Xuraccucac, and by stealth arrives within the great game preserve of the Fifth Men, where other human beings are hunted down like beasts and butchered.

But now, to their woe and anger, the hunters find a hunter on their trail. Colonel Lost makes his first kill without mercy…

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 94 Wings on the Night Wind, is now posted.

Episode 94 Wings on the Night Wind

On silent wings, armed with weapons of the many ages of man, Colonel Lost flies at twice the speed of sound ever closer to the great and dread citadel-city of Xurac Xuracuccac.

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 93 Downfall of the Dreadnaught, is now posted.

Episode 93 Downfall of the Dreadnaught

Only the ferocious Dark Conquerors, and Raad himself, hold possession of the great dreadnaught of the air against Preston and the surviving Roman Legionnaires. Tense negotiations end in an exorcism, while the lovely captive, Cynisca, is carried off on a swift airboat, growing farther away each moment!

An old friend reappears.

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 92 The Killing of the Captain, is now posted.

Episode 92 The Killing of the Captain

Betrayal! Revenge! Bloody Death! Defenestration! Abduction!

Preston Lost watches in helpless horror as a beloved ally falls to treason, and his lovely beloved is swept away by traitors! Woe unto him! All is lost!

Faretheewell, fair Cynisca! How he longs for the touch of your gentle hand!

Now Preston  Lost plunges like a thunderbolt, stooping like a striking angel, blades in both hands! Why does he smile at a time like this? Why does he laugh?

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 91 Brother Against Brother, is now posted.

Episode 91 Brother Against Brother

The last sky-pirate ship aloft rams the Watcher dreadnaught, and immediately the deadly infantry battle is joined across the burning and broken decks of the aerial ships. The Swift Death runs through the foe like hellfire, but the Dark Conquerors emerge from walls of flame with their shape-changing weapons agleam. The one-eyed giant Tlatoc steps forth for the final and deadly duel with his brother Grind. 

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 90 Ships of the Sixth Men, is now posted.

Episode 90 Ships of the Sixth Men

An unexpected ally rises from the deep, and the most monstrous of all posthuman races shows itself to be the most civilized, therefore the toughest. The omnipotent and invincible dreadnaught of the Watchers is halted in mid-flight, and the vengeance-mad Captain Grind Goldtooth orders his pirate warship of the air to ram the foe in a final and reckless ploy! 

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 89 Ever Defiant of Entropy, is now posted.

Episode 89 Ever Defiant of Entropy

Colonel Lost, longing for his true love, and Captain Grind, longing for fratricide, set off in hopeless pursuit of the swifter, larger air-fleet of the Watchers. A stern chase is a long chase! 

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 88 Ravage of the Red Tower, is now posted.

Episode 88 Ravage of the Red Tower

In this exciting episode, the Corsairs, led by Colonel Lost, once more turn to the attack, only to discover that the Eighth Men had another reason to launch assaults on the City of Swift Death than what seems. The invulnerable defenses of the city of corsairs are turned against her, and the Tower where Cynisca is safely ensconced is not safe at all.

Lost’s worst fears come to pass! Woe and alas! 

My trembling pen wilts above the tear stained manuscript! What author can continue such a tale of hopeless grief?! How terrible! There is no way for Colonel Lost to recover! What a horrible turn of events! Begin the lamentations! Let the virgins wail! Burn the viking ships!

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 87 Man is Man

Posted June 5, 2019 By John C Wright

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 87 Man is Man, is now posted.

Episode 87 Man is Man

In this exciting episode, unexpected allies, old enemies turned friend, make an appearance. Captain Grind faces a dread decision, perhaps beyond his moral strength to make: why should the final pirate captain of the doomed Corsair City continue the fight, when to flee with his loot is the more convenient and prudent course? What makes this, or any battle, worth the wounds, bloodshed, loss and death?

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