The Gate to Nothing
A hundred and forty years after the world stopped listening, all people have left is each other.
In 2290, France is a desert. The sea has taken the coasts, the storms take the rest, and humanity is a handful of fragile groups carrying their history in stories no one can verify.
Lyra is twelve, walking home with her group as they do every year. Saria is a deserter from SolCorp’s elite forces, sealed in a powered combat suit with a battle AI wired into her brainstem, one that speaks inside her head and sometimes moves her body without asking. Among the ruins of Orléans their paths cross, when a mercenary force armed by EuroDyne Industries hunts a group with nothing of value.
Saria never wanted to be responsible for anyone. But she can’t shed the one who shares her mind, and it won’t let her walk past.
The Gate to Nothing is a brutal survival story about what climate collapse leaves behind, about a body that isn’t only your own, and about doing the right thing when no one is watching.
In 2290, France is a desert. The sea has taken the coasts, the storms take the rest, and humanity is a handful of fragile groups carrying their history in stories no one can verify.
Lyra is twelve, walking home with her group as they do every year. Saria is a deserter from SolCorp’s elite forces, sealed in a powered combat suit with a battle AI wired into her brainstem, one that speaks inside her head and sometimes moves her body without asking. Among the ruins of Orléans their paths cross, when a mercenary force armed by EuroDyne Industries hunts a group with nothing of value.
Saria never wanted to be responsible for anyone. But she can’t shed the one who shares her mind, and it won’t let her walk past.
The Gate to Nothing is a brutal survival story about what climate collapse leaves behind, about a body that isn’t only your own, and about doing the right thing when no one is watching.
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