Eight months ago, Taryn opened a door that had been locked for five centuries.
He was thirteen years old, newly arrived at Alabaster's ancient Tower, and he had just learned what the city had always rested on: machines built by people from another world, running in the stone beneath his feet, waiting for someone who could hear them.
Now he is fourteen, and the door is open, and the world on the other side is considerably larger than anyone told him.
Something is stirring in the deep geology — a presence that predates the city, the Tower, perhaps the colony itself. A rogue intelligence, locked away for centuries, has quietly been repairing what it needs to pursue a mission no one authorized it to resume. And a band of outcasts is moving south through the coastal towns, toward the small fishing city of Quiet Bay, carrying legitimate grievances and a willingness to act on them.
None of these things are, by themselves, the problem. The problem is what they mean when you put them together.
Taryn built an open community. Now he has to learn what it costs to defend one — and whether defense and openness can survive each other.
Onyx is the second book of The Achillios Chronicles.
Genre: Science Fiction
He was thirteen years old, newly arrived at Alabaster's ancient Tower, and he had just learned what the city had always rested on: machines built by people from another world, running in the stone beneath his feet, waiting for someone who could hear them.
Now he is fourteen, and the door is open, and the world on the other side is considerably larger than anyone told him.
Something is stirring in the deep geology — a presence that predates the city, the Tower, perhaps the colony itself. A rogue intelligence, locked away for centuries, has quietly been repairing what it needs to pursue a mission no one authorized it to resume. And a band of outcasts is moving south through the coastal towns, toward the small fishing city of Quiet Bay, carrying legitimate grievances and a willingness to act on them.
None of these things are, by themselves, the problem. The problem is what they mean when you put them together.
Taryn built an open community. Now he has to learn what it costs to defend one — and whether defense and openness can survive each other.
Onyx is the second book of The Achillios Chronicles.
Genre: Science Fiction
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