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Magic runs the galaxy, and the empires that wield it are coming for Earth. Daniel Thrush is the only human who can learn it — which makes him the government's favorite lab asset in a crash program to bolt spellwork onto human technology before the Tellask Empire arrives.
Progression: mana harvested the hard way, magitech engineering, and a mage growing under state supervision.
Reader fit: you want sci-fi stakes with cultivation bones and an uneasy leash between hero and handler.
Texture: tense, inventive, war-clouded.
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