The Shadows Between Us Book 3
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The Shadow Between Us
Some roots were never meant to grow.
In the far future, memory is infrastructure—and forgetting is a dangerous act of rebellion.
The Spiral governs everything.
A living, evolving network of neural archives known as the Weave, it holds the past, programs the present, and shapes the future.
But now, the Spiral is glitching.
Dreamlinks destabilise. Interfaces soften.
And in the heart of the Memory Garden, a child appears—unregistered, unclassified, and impossible.
A child who claims to be the First Wonder.
A child who was never named.
As the Spiral begins to open—not outward, but inward—three unlikely allies are pulled toward its core:
- Mara, a former engineer of the Bloom, haunted by the systems she helped build.
- Ilya, a dream-mapper whose art is beginning to predict events before they happen.
- Asha, once a rebel forged in fire, now a seeker of new selfhood and truth.
Together with Entropy, a cat who may or may not be quantum, they must decode a crisis not of code, but of intention.
What happens when a civilisation built on recorded memory is forced to confront what it chose not to remember?
Roots of the Sky is a cerebral, emotionally charged sci-fi tale about identity, system decay, and the radical act of naming the unnamed.
Blending immersive world building with poetic prose, it’s a story where:
- Networks dream. - Archives feel. - And the most powerful technology of all… is empathy.
Perfect for fans of:
- The Broken Earth by N.K. Jemisin
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
- Techno-organic worlds, post-collapse societies, and speculative philosophy
The Spiral has opened.
What lies inside isn’t power.
It’s possibility.