The Bone Orchard of Ship Thirteen

About this book

In 2491, the generation ship Cradle of Vines is nearing Veridia-9 after three centuries in flight, but its living climate forest is dying. Thirteen-year-old Riv Okafor, a lower-deck compost worker shunned for the chemical burns on her arms, hears a desperate voice in the ship’s mycelium walls. Above her, fourteen-year-old Sef Maren searches the reverse-ordered journal left behind by his vanished father, the Chief Climate Engineer. As brown haze chokes the lower decks and the ruling council tightens its grip on oxygen, Riv and Sef uncover a buried biome, a falsified destination, and a secret that could turn the ship’s rigid hierarchy inside out. Hunted through collapsing gardens and sealed machinery, they must decide what they owe a living world that may already have chosen them.

Book details

Genres:

Climate Fiction, Space Opera, Science Fiction, Eco-Horror, Mystery

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-14

Content rating:

R