Length2h 53m
About this audiobook
The town sits on the edge of the Glassing, a scar left by a buried terraforming engine. Mirage-quakes bend
reality, shadows lag behind their owners, and the sun sometimes threatens to rise from underneath.
Four unlikely figures find themselves knotted at the center: a sheriff with orders he can't follow, the engineer
whose mistake broke the world, an outlaw whose shadow moves on its own, and a seer who hears the engine's song in
their bones.
As the Second Sunrise builds toward a reset that would wipe Rustglass clean, they must journey into the heart of
the machine. It wants a simple planet. They'll have to convince it to settle for a complicated one.
A sci-fi western about sacrifice and the stubborn refusal to let the math decide who survives.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy, Science Fiction
Length2 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
8The Walls That Remember
2The Street That Couldn't Decide
9The Station That Breathed
3A Jail Between Years
10Two Mornings
4Glass Bars, Glass Bargains
11Trial by Burned Ground
5When the Herd Came Through
12The Mouth of the Engine
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6The Pact at the Edge of the World
13What Rises
7Shadow Crossfire
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