A SCI-FI NOVEL BY THE DEBUTING AUTHOR VICTOR ESTRANGE
A dark planet orbits a dead star in a remote system. A decadent city hovers above its surface, with an artificial sun hanging underneath. The splotch of light and warmth it generates gives The Civilization a precious but fragile last chance of survival.
High above the city, in her luminous tower, the Goddess Lightmaster struggles to keep The Civilization alive, ready to sacrifice anything and anyone to achieve that goal.
In the darkness of the mines, a slave called Rain has accepted that the end is coming for her, and wishes only to spend all the time she can with her family, unaware of the storm she is about to face.
Further below, the Entity awaits, forever patient.
When their paths cross, the fate of the entire galaxy will hang in the balance.
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“I am the ascended. My will is made of the stuff of stars, and light and fusion I command. Time is mine, past, present, and future; and so is space, in the whole of its multidimensionality. You, my ignorant children, believed for a long time that Gods had created you. You know now that you conceived your gods instead, because your fear was too great to bear, so alone and powerless you are. Made of rock, of wood, of plaster they were; of false hope, dull reflections of your aspirations, dragged down by your own flaws and limitations. But you learned. You slowly killed those false gods, flawed concretion of fearful ideas that they were; but fear itself was still in your hearts, the void it created, its abyss, so painful to gaze into. Therefore, you kept building. The White was your decisive attempt, the one that finally birthed the first of your Real Gods. Of pure knowledge, of pure energy you made it, and it made us. In me and in us you finally achieved the Gods you once envisioned, intangible, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent. Now, I am. I think, therefore the universe is.”
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About the author
Victor Estrange has been a science-fiction aficionado since a young age, when his big brother brought home a copy of Frank Herbert’s Dune and blew his mind. Not only that book changed his understanding of our world, it awakened in him a desire to share his own stories, to break people free of their comfort zones and imagine what could be, beyond what is. A fan of the classics from Asimov, Clarke and K. Dick, he would probably choose William Gibson’s Neuromancer as his second favorite Sci-Fi novel, and grab one of Douglas Adams’ books if he was in need of a good laugh. Now, at the age of 41, Estrange’s desire to tell stories finally culminated in the Minds of Stars series, whose Part 1, Starlight Dying, will soon be available as e-book or limited printed first edition.
