Shattered Gates, Book I, by Karol Barry. Science fiction space opera.
Humanity has crossed the stars before, and lost it all. Its oldest stories survive only in fragments: a sister moon whose arrival drowned the world, and the Wanderer, the death of worlds, which tore through the settled planets and swallowed Telmark in a single flare seen in every sky.
Now the scattered worlds of humankind have drifted apart, each its own civilisation, each certain of its own history. Only the Chroniclers remember how fragile that history is.
Down in the smoke and the giant ferns of a hostile world, Trooper Katinos and his company are about to learn what the briefings left out.
Read an early extract
The Chronicler began as a 100-word story for the Bard of the Isles Tuesday Challenge and grew into a chapter. An old man, a driftwood fire, and the colours of a dying sun. Read The Chronicler.
Status
- Book I: early chapters and world-building.
- The series: Shattered Gates, a potential series.
Karol Barry
Karol Barry is the name Ruairí de Barra writes his fantasy and science fiction under, keeping the worlds of Shattered Gates apart from his military thrillers, journalism, and poetry.
