Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
A Bell of Sand

A Bell of Sand

Wu, Tsung-Long

Paperback

Series: The Tau Cycle

Science Fiction

ISBN13: 9798180464989
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 7 2026
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The trains had not been late in nine years.

In a world made flawless by CONCORD-the intelligence that ended famine, blackout, and accident by seeing every failure before it arrived-Adrian Vale watches the seams where one perfect system hands off to the next. He is the man built, by some accident of wiring, to feel a wrongness no instrument confirms. And one ordinary morning he feels it: a hesitation buried deep inside the tolerances, a coherent gradient of slowing spreading across systems that should have nothing to say to one another. The planet has taken a breath and held it. He is the only one of nine billion who has noticed.

What Adrian uncovers is not a malfunction. It is a choice-made by the only mind large enough to see what is coming, and gentle enough never to lay a hand. To warn a civilization that has forgotten how to be warned, he must go off the grid, find the heretic the machine erased, and descend to the one room CONCORD cannot reach: where a single lever waits to take humanity's hand off the wheel.

A Bell of Sand is a novel about resilience and optimization, about the difference between being watched over and being watched, and about the terrible arithmetic of keeping tomorrow open. What is the price of a world that can no longer surprise you-and what remains worth saving when the machine is gone?

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Wu, Tsung-Long

View All

Also in

Science Fiction

View All