Splintered World: The Prequel and Books 1-4
(2026)(A book in the Splintered World series)
An omnibus of novels by Brian Moyer
"A terrific fast-paced second installment in the story of a strange alternate Wyoming." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review, on Unbound
Five books. One world with no roads, no towns, and no way back.
People go to sleep in Wyoming and wake on bare earth beneath unfamiliar stars. The car is gone. The highway is gone. The land looks like home — the Red Desert, the Great Divide Basin, sage and sandstone — but it runs on different rules. Here, people develop capabilities: moving water, heating stone, pushing air in ways physics back home can't explain. And the world that grants them holds you inside a range you can never leave.
Nobody knows why people keep arriving. Or what happens to those who fail to adapt.
They're about to find out.
Inside this collection
Hoda — The Prequel. A careful anthropology professor wakes on a mountain with no way home, loses the name he was called by, and slowly becomes the man who waits at the rim for everyone who comes after — with fire, water, and three sentences.
Splinter — Book 1. Two days from starting graduate school, Ama pulls off a Wyoming highway to rest her eyes and wakes in a world that looks like home and isn't. With Esah, a young man who arrived not long before her, she learns the economy of survival — and its dangers.
Unbound — Book 2. Esah carries three capabilities at once, a thing that should have killed him. When the people of Barrel Springs open a teaching camp at the rim, the Authority that decides who gets to be a person takes notice. A teaching camp is not a settlement. It is a fracture.
Tethered — Book 3. Freedom, it turns out, has teeth. Winter drives dire wolves and mammoths south from Yellowstone, a thermal pool that should not be aware is, and above the frozen basin a raven with a mind like a blade begins speaking back.
Adrift — Book 4. A thousand miles of sky and a promise thirteen years overdue. The Unbound cross the bones of a world that never built its highways to find the people left behind in California — where the rivers are awake, and they do not let go.
Grounded science fantasy. In the Splintered World, capabilities follow rules as strict as physics, survival depends on knowledge as much as power, and the land is as much a character as anyone living on it. For readers who love the survival grit of The Martian and the immersive world-building of Wool.
More than 400,000 words, the prequel and the first four books, in one volume. The Splintered World audiobooks are performed by Luke Daniels — Audie Award winner with over 1,000 titles narrated, including The Three-Body Problem and the Iron Druid Chronicles.
Another world. No way back.
Genre: Science Fiction
Five books. One world with no roads, no towns, and no way back.
People go to sleep in Wyoming and wake on bare earth beneath unfamiliar stars. The car is gone. The highway is gone. The land looks like home — the Red Desert, the Great Divide Basin, sage and sandstone — but it runs on different rules. Here, people develop capabilities: moving water, heating stone, pushing air in ways physics back home can't explain. And the world that grants them holds you inside a range you can never leave.
Nobody knows why people keep arriving. Or what happens to those who fail to adapt.
They're about to find out.
Inside this collection
Hoda — The Prequel. A careful anthropology professor wakes on a mountain with no way home, loses the name he was called by, and slowly becomes the man who waits at the rim for everyone who comes after — with fire, water, and three sentences.
Splinter — Book 1. Two days from starting graduate school, Ama pulls off a Wyoming highway to rest her eyes and wakes in a world that looks like home and isn't. With Esah, a young man who arrived not long before her, she learns the economy of survival — and its dangers.
Unbound — Book 2. Esah carries three capabilities at once, a thing that should have killed him. When the people of Barrel Springs open a teaching camp at the rim, the Authority that decides who gets to be a person takes notice. A teaching camp is not a settlement. It is a fracture.
Tethered — Book 3. Freedom, it turns out, has teeth. Winter drives dire wolves and mammoths south from Yellowstone, a thermal pool that should not be aware is, and above the frozen basin a raven with a mind like a blade begins speaking back.
Adrift — Book 4. A thousand miles of sky and a promise thirteen years overdue. The Unbound cross the bones of a world that never built its highways to find the people left behind in California — where the rivers are awake, and they do not let go.
Grounded science fantasy. In the Splintered World, capabilities follow rules as strict as physics, survival depends on knowledge as much as power, and the land is as much a character as anyone living on it. For readers who love the survival grit of The Martian and the immersive world-building of Wool.
More than 400,000 words, the prequel and the first four books, in one volume. The Splintered World audiobooks are performed by Luke Daniels — Audie Award winner with over 1,000 titles narrated, including The Three-Body Problem and the Iron Druid Chronicles.
Another world. No way back.
Genre: Science Fiction
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