Last Skies Afire - BookWyrm

Published by Independently Published.

ISBN:: 979-8-201-70046-1

Worlds once alive are being destroyed; worlds once dormant must be brought back to life.

Weapons that have long been wielded must be returned to the sheath; things never truly grasped must be wielded as weapons.

What can Ada do, as planets burn under the inexorable advance of a machine fleet? What can Isavel do, from a shackled homeworld that has not been heard from in a thousand years?

And what might they both do, if they were no longer alone?

When seals are broken and barriers fail, when distances shrink to nothing and options dwindle into despair, both Ada and Isavel see only one way forward into a world that still lives on the other side of the fire:

Let all hell break loose. All at once. And pray chaos is on their side.

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Guerric Haché reviewed Last Skies Afire by Guerric Haché (Digitesque)

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I'm the author! No stars from me.

This book contains moments I've been mulling over and imagining in my head for five years; and it also contains moments that suddenly struck me a month before I published it. It contains things I try to explain as best I can, and things I think shouldn't be explained at all. This series, as a writing project, has outlasted every job, relationship, home, and life situation I was in when I started it. It's a strange feeling, for it to be over.

It's not been a perfect ride - on the contrary, writing Digitesque has been a constant struggle of learning to identify the flaws and lacunae in my writing while still also remaining firmly self-indulgent of all the ideas and tropes and concepts and images I find compelling. But I decided when I began that if I was going to push myself …

I'm the author! No stars from me.

This book contains moments I've been mulling over and imagining in my head for five years; and it also contains moments that suddenly struck me a month before I published it. It contains things I try to explain as best I can, and things I think shouldn't be explained at all. This series, as a writing project, has outlasted every job, relationship, home, and life situation I was in when I started it. It's a strange feeling, for it to be over.

It's not been a perfect ride - on the contrary, writing Digitesque has been a constant struggle of learning to identify the flaws and lacunae in my writing while still also remaining firmly self-indulgent of all the ideas and tropes and concepts and images I find compelling. But I decided when I began that if I was going to push myself to finally publish my writing in any shared space, I wanted to go all-out with things that caught my imagination. And I think I did. In writing this I've had spectacular and crushing and giddying and heartwarming feelings spark and catch fire in my head, and I've done the best I could to put them to words and structures on digital pages.

I did my best. As I believe both Ada and Isavel have said, in gist if not in as many words, our best may not always be enough. But it'll have to do.