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Mass Over Amen: A Liturgy of Breath in Deep Space
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 7 2025
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Gothic Science-Fiction Horror Novel
On a starship built like a cathedral, breath is currency and song is contagion.
The crew of the Sanctum were taught that hymns keep the air sweet and the metal obedient. But when the ship begins to echo with voices it shouldn't have-liturgies written in frost, doors bowing to phantom calls-their faith fractures. The vessel's vast halls and ribbed corridors become a choir pit for something that learns too fast, hungers too deeply, and dresses itself in vestments of steel.
Doctrine says count before chant. Doctrine says hooks before mouths. But doctrine was written by human hands, and the ship has begun to coauthor.
As rites collapse into survival, Prelate Drax and her weary congregation must bind their own lungs to cruel, ugly rules: fasting from words, weighting down the hinge-throat of the vessel, teaching their children to tap numbers instead of pray. Mercy is breath, not hymn. And breath is running out.
Mass Over Amen is gothic horror on a cosmic scale-a tale of ritual and rebellion, of liturgy turned weapon, of a people learning to starve their own songs in order to live. Perfect for readers of Event Horizon, Dark Souls, and Alien: The Cold Forge.
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