Zhe #02 - Chains of Tartarus
by Drew Dale Daniel Bryenton
Elysium is burning. In the deep levels, the Habs seethe with violence. In the streets, mobs proclaim the ascendancy of Simeon Blaire to the throne of God-Emperor. And below them all, in the teknomantic hades of the R.T., an alien experiment goes horribly awry. Now a shadow which has stalked beside humanity since the dawn of sentience is clothed in flesh - and the Forge might just give it the power to bring about Hell on Earth.
Only a tiny group of disparate souls stand in its path - the alien Technician Zhe, the genecrafted warriors Abdulafia and CeeAn, Subcity miscreants Jaq and Kaito... and other, even stranger allies thrown together by chance.
And while the city is torn apart from within, an even greater peril is falling in toward the sun, the cold, calculating planet-killer Everdark, herald of the Motherbrain...
'Chains of Tartarus' concludes the story begun in 'Elysian Fields'in spectacularly destructive fashion, creating an apocalypse-opera that makes Gotterdammerung look like a teddy bears' picnic.
Only a tiny group of disparate souls stand in its path - the alien Technician Zhe, the genecrafted warriors Abdulafia and CeeAn, Subcity miscreants Jaq and Kaito... and other, even stranger allies thrown together by chance.
And while the city is torn apart from within, an even greater peril is falling in toward the sun, the cold, calculating planet-killer Everdark, herald of the Motherbrain...
'Chains of Tartarus' concludes the story begun in 'Elysian Fields'in spectacularly destructive fashion, creating an apocalypse-opera that makes Gotterdammerung look like a teddy bears' picnic.