False Sky Book One
A failed gifted candidate survives a gate-borne entity that should have consumed him and discovers his failure may have been engineered long before the gate ever opened.
A routine university expedition beyond Kharast's gate leaves Ashar Vale alive, changed, and carrying something no imperial record can safely explain. To survive, he must hide what he is becoming and uncover why the ordinary future promised to him may have been engineered from the start.
Series
False Sky is a slow-burn science-fantasy series of dangerous gates, suppressed power, alien mystery, Dominion, institutional control, and the cost of becoming something no institution knows how to control.
Readers can expect atmospheric science fantasy with an epic-fantasy surface, a university and gate-city setting, socially important gifted classes, Dominion as soul-pressure and reality-shaping rather than generic mana, hidden or suppressed potential, dangerous gates, layered realms, alien ecology, and institutional pressure from Empire, Church, university, and hidden networks.
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False Sky Book One
forthcoming
A routine university expedition beyond Kharast's gate leaves Ashar Vale alive, changed, and carrying something no imperial record can safely explain. To survive, he must hide what he is becoming and uncover why the ordinary future promised to him may have been engineered from the start.
Discover The First LayerFalse Sky Book Two
forthcoming
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D. Labman writes science fantasy and epic fantasy about strange worlds, dangerous systems, and people forced to understand powers larger than themselves.
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