The Brass Ascendant

About this book

Told through a gripping second-person frame narrative, this novel plunges the reader into the life of a young, impoverished mechanic on Victoria-9, a far-future space colony artificially engineered to mimic the brutal social stratification of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution. Hooked to a neural loom by the high-tech Archive Council, you must recount the events that led to the Great Uprising. As your testimony unfolds, you describe navigating the suffocating smog of the lower decks and the glittering cruelty of the High Orbitals to save your abducted brother. Along the way, you uncover your family's hidden lineage and your inescapable destiny as the 'Igniter'—the sole individual capable of operating the colony's ancient, dormant terraforming technology. Exploring profound themes of familial loyalty, inevitable change, and rigid social class, your confession to the Council is not an admission of defeat, but the final, calculated step in a system-wide revolution.

Book details

Genres:

Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult

Language:

en

Published:

2026-05-15

Content rating:

PG-13