Advances in the Art of Being, by Chris Barnardo, is a Science Fiction Space Opera with world building at its heart.Earth, 2199 and three close friends, St Mungo, Gundel, and Arkil, are on a mission to save the lives of seventy-eight scientists, a thousand light-years out of Earthside, who have been partially terminated in a seemingly pointless and unprovoked attack on the edge of the Colony Line.As they sift through the debris, they realise that the attack ...