THE AETHER SPHERES UNIVERSE returns to Kickstarter for the second book in a series that readers call the “interstellar fantasy age of sail I didn’t know I needed.” Bold space opera meets fantasy adventure in an epic tale of “acceptance and redemption.”
Aether ships sail amongst the stars, but an evil empire looms on the horizon. So far, there are two books written in the Aether Spheres universe: Nine Sailed Star and the brand new Void Spheres. The hardcover editions are available only on Kickstarter.
We’re coming back to Kickstarter because crowdfunding is a great alternative to selling on spaces like Amazon. We depend on the visibility that the big stores offer us, but here on Kickstarter I have the chance to connect directly with readers. This can give me the space to play with big ideas like entire societies built around tiny worldlets and sailing ships through space. It also lets me do cool things like commission artists to create character art and bring scenes from within the book to life.
Dragons, prophecy, and sailing ships… in space! When he heeded the call of a powerful archmage and hired the only crew desperate enough to follow him into the void, disgraced elvar captain Cat Greentrees didn’t realize that it would turn his worldview on its head. Widely reviled and viewed as criminals, his new crew of gobvar—an entire small clan led by a young shaman—quickly proved itself the equal to any crew Cat led in the navy.
Prophecy dogs their heels and the draconic threat that lies sleeping along their nation’s borders is about to wake. If the three unlikely heroes—Captain, Archmage, and Shaman—can’t determine the source of the vision driving their quest, everything they seek to save may be lost.
Stealing a void ship out from under the nose of an enemy that will hunt them to the ends of the spheres, Cat and his crew emerge from the void strait into a barren sphere that has Cat feeling the lack of aether in his very spirit.
Worse, the Void Flyer they stole needs a type of fuel that their sailing aether-ships never required. Their next step must be to reach the worldlet that their enemy stockpiled fuel on. But this vast expanse of sweeping ruins is haunted by worse things than the invulnerable spirits made of hunger and energy that attack them at every turn.
Because once, the Blood King of the Gobvar ruled these halls. The old stones themselves share a mind… still loyal to a King that should be dead.
Learn more at the Kickstarter page for Void Spheres.
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