Length3h 30m
About this audiobook
The Crown of Glass doesn't hate anyone. It just does the math. And right now, the math says three worlds are acceptable weight.
The Crown is a civic weather machine older than every living government combined — and it's collapsing under corrupted burden logic, assigning heat death and pressure failure across Cinder Verge, Saints Lantern, and Breaker Shoal in a sequence no single node can interrupt alone. Quell wants to calibrate it. Rhun wants to file paperwork until it belongs to him. And somewhere inside a ship held together by debt and refusal, Rian Vale is finally done calling that neutrality.
The shard is dying. The cage is finished. The freighter can't make the next run. None of that changes the question Ione finally forces into the room: Are we counting people, or protecting them?
Chain Reaction is Book VIII of the Starwake Saga — a space opera about what happens when you've run out of good instruments and have to burn the last one anyway.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length3 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title
10The Tools Hold or They Don’t
2Dedication
11Counting People
3Epigraph
12Saint’s Lantern Breaks
4Review Window, Closing
13The Reversal Must Be Earned
5Aid, Ownership, and the Price of Both
14Crown of Glass
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6Cinder Verge, Still on Fire
15Hard Cut, Open Witness
7Under the Exchangers
16After the Fire, the Arrow
8We Do Not Use It Again
17About the Author
9Breaker Shoal and the Midpoint Reversal
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