The Meridian Ledger

About this book

Suspended in the mesosphere aboard the 1896 Equatorial Observation Array, a disgraced chronometrician turned structural salvager hides from a legacy of academic cowardice behind forged credentials. Operating with ruthless pragmatism, the salvager hoards schematics and manipulated inventory logs to ensure personal survival. However, severe atmospheric shear begins buckling the early-ion thruster platform, tracing back to a single missing harmonic constant the salvager omitted to mask their lack of certification. Interwoven with the modern-day discoveries of a twenty-first-century conservator translating the recovered maintenance diaries, the narrative explores a fractured timeline of guilt, discovery, and impending catastrophe. Forced to choose between quietly commandeering the sole pressurized descent pod or exposing their fraud to manually recalibrate the primary drive, the salvager must shed their defensive cynicism. Ultimately, they sacrifice their escape route, welding their pod's fuel lines to the station's core matrix to secure a scientific breakthrough, proving that true legacy is not inherited, but meticulously engineered.

Book details

Genres:

Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Steampunk

Language:

en

Published:

2026-04-14

Content rating:

G