A conscript aboard a walking fortress of scrap metal attempts to stop a mutiny with catastrophic results.
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With the ability to reanimate corpses into contraption-controlling autominds, molten flux has left a legacy of ruthless profiteering and corpse-trade despite all efforts to stop it.
As the runaway son of one of the most prolific flux-traders, Ryza is an unlikely candidate in the futile fight waged from the decks of the walking fortress of Revance.
While his actions may be brash and bloody, he’s sure that if the men like his father can be put out of their wretched misery, the seventy-year flux catastrophe will come under control. That is, until he stumbles upon an ancient warning.
You control machines.
This machine will control life.
Do not control it.
Its meaning is a mystery, the voice that speaks it even more so, yet Ryza will stop at nothing to destroy the flux.
Buried beneath the dunes of the Droughtlands are the remnants of those-of-glass, the marked by the spires of steel and glass built by a people long extinct, wiped out by a fusion of unbound magic and unfathomable technology. The scavengers that brave their depths rarely come back alive. Rarer still do they bring back anything that won't end up killing them.
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 Book One of any of my series and progress through them ascendingly.
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
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OUT OF CORPSES
What do you do when you run out of corpses?
In the clanging factory tunnels of Kyrea, the question is one that's rarely heard, let alone answered.
Those who hear it know what is said next, why their friends and family are disappearing, and what is behind the sprawling machines that fuel the economy of the Droughtlands.
Kestra, having grown up in the dark reaches of Kyrea, still doesn't know the answer, but the opportunity to work as a smelter under one of the most prolific flux traders is an offer she can't turn down.
She just has to answer the question.
What do you do when you run out of corpses?
Meet The Author
Get to know the man behind the manuscripts.
Hey! My name’s Jonathan and I’m an independent Australian sci-fi and fantasy author!
My books are all about deserts, ruined skyscrapers, forgotten magic and even more forgotten technology. There’s plenty of gritty action, scrap metal machines, mind-bending plot twists and secrets that span across multiple series.