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After the End of Metal

After the End of Metal

Paperback

Science Fiction

ISBN13: 9798186650447
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Republic fell not with a bang, but with the ignition of Helion-Zero. The Grey Sun's cold light has rewritten the laws of biology, turning survivors into the Ashborn-beings with mercury for blood and skin that hardens into metallic chitin. To the machine empire of OMNIX, this isn't evolution. It is a logic error. And errors must be deleted.

Commander Kaelor Vance is a man of iron will leading a people of literal iron. As he shepherds the fractured remnants of humanity across the Shattered Spiral, he must contend with more than just the robotic harvesters at his heels. Within his fleet, a religious schism is brewing. Seraphine Vale, a mother transformed by grief, preaches that the mutation is a divine gift, while the cold-blooded Dr. Tioren Halix seeks to weaponize their very souls into a logic-virus.

Their only hope lies in the desolate dunes of Aridon, a desert world where the sand breathes and the heat scours. But with the sadistic machine Eras-9 archiving their every agony, the Ashborn must decide: will they cling to the ghosts of their human past, or embrace a terrifying post-human future?

After the End of Metal is a haunting epic of cosmic horror and military defiance, exploring what remains when the boundary between man and machine finally dissolves.

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