“Do you want the unattainable? No-one is beyond your reach. Doppelganger-3000. Contact The Pleasure Palace to learn more. So good you won’t care it’s not real.” “A Doppelganger-3000 is the rarest, top of the range, the most coveted and the most expensive of sex droids. It promises to replicate down the very last detail the image of the person you most want between your thighs. It costs an absolute fortune because you absolutely will not be able to tell the difference between it and the person it is duplicating.”

• Crispus Pomponious, proprietor, The Pleasure Palace, Sector 9 The Doppelganger-3000: The ultimate scam. The year is 2099. Blaise Calvus is a battle-scarred ex-slave ex-gladiator who can't wait to leave Nova-Byzan for the Outworlds where he can escape the confines of the Republic and start to build a future away from his troubled past. Before he boards the starship he gets an outrageous proposal from Crispus Pomponious owner of the notorious Pleasure Palace... Impersonate a top-of-the-range sex droid for his old master's daughter Poppaea Severanius and make a small fortune to take with him... Blaise is torn, on one hand he has a slow-burning anger in the pit of his stomach that he would even consider being pimped out to another rich bitch but there is something else... The sweet memory of lush Poppaea, so plump and pretty with her huge violet eyes. Suddenly he finds himself seriously giving it some thought. Poppaea Severanius has spent the last two years disbanding her father's old Gladiatorial Ludus, freeing all his slaves and donating the family wealth to charity. Before she dedicates herself to chastity, poverty and the service of others she has one last unquenchable desire to indulge... her ultimate fantasy. Blaise. Please note, this story is novella length at just under 20,000 words and has strong language and scenes of an adult nature. Please do not purchase if you are easily offended.