# Free Babushka book excerpts

These are authorized public sample chapters by Martin Erlic. Each linked page contains the full sample text in server-rendered HTML.

## Ghosts of Praxis

- [Chapter 1: First Cut](https://www.babushkabook.com/reader/excerpts/ghosts-chapter-1-first-cut): Ika tends her flock on Krk while strange signs appear across the bay from Praxis.

## Echoes of Immortality

- [Prologue: Borrowed Time](https://www.babushkabook.com/reader/excerpts/echoes-prologue-borrowed-time): A marine biologist carries a volatile compound through a collapsing, war-torn metro.
- [Chapter 1: Dunya](https://www.babushkabook.com/reader/excerpts/echoes-chapter-1-dunya): A forbidden neural experiment blurs simulation, faith, and control.
- [Chapter 2: Maria](https://www.babushkabook.com/reader/excerpts/echoes-chapter-2-maria): Maria confronts her past after a failed simulation.
- [Chapter 3: Vesna](https://www.babushkabook.com/reader/excerpts/echoes-chapter-3-vesna): A midnight intrusion draws Vesna into a hunt through dreams and vanishing truths.
- [Chapter 4: Zakharovna](https://www.babushkabook.com/reader/excerpts/echoes-chapter-4-zakharovna): Forbidden experiments in immortal Gred spiral toward betrayal and a new order.

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