I of the Storm: Lower Heaven, Episode One

Twelve score and four years ago, the Founders crash-landed in a new world. Fleeing the war-ravaged Old Continent, these brave refugees built a city on the principles of Merit, Logic, and Freedom. They named this new place Heaven.

Two centuries later, Heaven’s on the verge. The city swells with people, solar shortages and food panics rule the day. The City Corps polices the streets with high-tech magic, while the Wizard government mandates top-down solutions from their lofty glass pyramids.

And beyond the lake-wall, hunters chase magical storms that transform beasts and shatter the human brain, risking sanity for a chance to make their fortune.

Felix and Vic would be happy to make their rent. The two roommates struggle for a place in a city with no room for them, trying to get ahead, without being crushed beneath the Founders' dream for a better world.

Lower Heaven is a five-part serial novel exploring cultural myths and realities in a speculative, millennial, solarpunk, universe, the debut work of Benjamin Loomis.