Two peoples. One impossible displacement. A home neither chose.
An experimental weapon throws two human populations into the same impossible displacement. The crew of the ISV Halberd have machines, records, medicine and rules. The people of the hill have food, seasons, boats, memory and a life that already works. Neither group has enough to survive alone, and neither has any reason to let the other set the terms.
Three complete novels follow what happens after the impossible event is over: survival becomes dependence, dependence becomes politics, and politics becomes the question of what a people carries forward when home is no longer simply a place.
For Readers who want survival that stays material, counted in stores, wire and winters, and a first contact between two human peoples who owe each other nothing. Start with Wrong Sky; it stands on its own.
3 Books
2 available now
ISV Halberd
Stranded
Two Peoples
One Coast
J. Carver
Commander
Book One: Wrong Sky
The Halberd fires a system its crew does not fully understand, and seconds later nobody aboard is where any chart says they should be. On a cold coast, Tovi's people live by tides, fish, smoke and memory. Neither group can survive alone. Neither can afford to let the other decide the terms.
Book Two: Nothing Given
A system coupled to the ringing ground can make light, heat and a room out of the wind. It also makes copper, labour and choices no instrument can settle. What began as mutual survival becomes politics: who can authorise, who can refuse, and what can be owned.
Book Three: What Stone Keeps
The home the two peoples built together begins to fail, and something under the ground is beginning to open. To survive, the settlement may have to leave the place that made it possible, and decide what can be carried forward and what history will leave behind.
Literary hard science fiction about engineering, scarcity, first contact between human cultures, language, memory and the slow construction of a shared world.