MOLTEN FLUX
Book One of THE FLUX CATASTROPHE
Released: 17th June 2023
As the freshest conscript aboard the walking fortress of Revance, Ryza forges a name for himself in battle. The enemy are the smelters, bandits that trade in reanimated corpses. But for Ryza, the bloodshed represents a path of redemption for an upbringing he’s just escaped.
His prowess with a rifle draws the interest of the Locusts, a clandestine faction within Revance’s ranks. It turns out that not all aboard the fortress seek to stamp out the plague of molten flux, the mysterious liquid metal that fills the bodies of the dead and makes them walk again.
Some seek to profit.
The reanimated corpses —known as autominds— are used to control enormous contraptions of magnetically enchanted metal, forming the backbone of The Droughtland’s factories. The only thing stopping the smelters from expanding their illicit industry is Revance.
The Locusts make Ryza an offer. Either help overthrow Revance to do the smelter’s bidding or reveal his father’s legacy as the very thing Ryza now fights against.
The former is unthinkable. The latter means death.
Ryza resolves to infiltrate them and expose the mutiny, plunging him back into the murky underworld of the smelters, testing his convictions, and even leading him to the ancient origins of molten flux itself.
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Genuinely one of the most original pieces of fiction I have ever read, Molten Flux perfectly marries science fiction with fantasy. The novel presents over-the-top concepts with such believability I only hope the popularity of this series grows and finds a wider audience.
If you are looking for a high-energy, brutal and original bit of fiction, there are few better places to start than the Droughtlands.
- Grimdark Magazine
All the books set in the Droughtlands can be read in almost any order. In fact, that’s the intention!
A key part of the philosophy in the setting is that one’s preconceived notions and bits of prior knowledge change how events are approached and interpreted.
As you read through the series, you will gain this knowledge and be unable to let it go, a core conundrum that lies deep at the heart of this setting, forcing you, the reader, to become a part of this world.
Do you begin at the earliest point you can, blindly watching events unfolding?
Or do you glimpse the future first, and use it to reinterpret the past?
In essence, there is no one true reading order, as long as you start with the first book of any series. Hit the button to find out more.