Chains of Being
Welcome to Chains of Being, a Space: Above and Beyond slash novel originally published in 1996.
The import of these fanzine works to the AO3 was approved by the OTW Open Doors Committee in 2026 as a part of the Fan Culture Preservation Project.
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Cooper Hawkes is an in-vitro in a world of natural-borns.
A Marine, because the judge sent him to the Corps instead of to jail.
Six years old, and caught up in the middle of a war.
Cooper has learned, painfully and well, that humans despise him, that human society rejects him: the nipple-neck, the wetbrain, the tank. That surrounded by his squadron he is still, and always, alone; that, whether in the crowded barracks of boot camp or the screaming fury of battle, none of them are like him, none are what he is. None of them are bound to him with chains of being.
Except one.