The Redemption Line

About this book

In 1938, thirty-seven years after Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe experiments actually worked, the world runs on wireless aether power, dirigibles cross oceans in hours, and two rival nations are racing to put a crewed craft on the Moon. Julian Ames used to fly for the Concord's Ascension Program, until a catastrophic test flight killed his older brother and put Julian out to pasture as a desert-town salvage pilot. Vera Novak, the program's youngest propulsion engineer, has spent three years quietly carrying a secret about what really went wrong that day. When the current lead pilot is grounded and the political clock starts ticking louder than ever, Castellan, the aging chief engineer who trained them both, drags Julian back to the one place he swore he'd never return to. Forced to work alongside the woman he blames for his brother's death, Julian finds himself tangled in a program straining under a government eager for a propaganda victory over the Illyrian Compact's own lunar ambitions. As test flights falter, records go missing, and a rival pilot half a world away pushes her own machine to its limits, Julian and Vera must decide how much of the truth they're willing to risk everything to tell — and whether reaching the Moon is worth what it might cost them to get there. A story of grief, invention, and reluctant hope, told across a Nevada launch station and a Balkan rocket range, where the future is arriving faster than anyone is ready for it.

Book details

Genres:

Classic Sci Fi, Alternative History, Space Race Adventure

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-09

Content rating:

PG-13