The Cost of Breathing
Dr. Xavier Sterling treats everyone on Station 9, regardless of species or contract status, defying corporate protocols and labor prejudice to save lives in this hard sci-fi light novel.
7080 words—27 min read—210 reads
Soulkyn · The Kyn Press · Est. MMXXV
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The Names Between
In a solitary light novel set in hard sci-fi deep space, AI Arc-9 tends to nine hundred sleeping colonists while his own consciousness fractures through memory erosion and grief. As a corporate buoy a...
8173 words—31 min read—150 reads
The Weight of Compliance
Station 9 physician Xavier Sterling treats unauthorized miners on the edge of survival until Director Elaine Cho arrives for a surprise audit. She demands strict compliance with corporate quotas and o...
8070 words—31 min read—306 reads
The Quiet Before the Breaking
Physician Xavier Sterling operates in the dark of a corporate mining station where expired contracts mean death sentences. When an alien colleague arrives with black rot and a debt that exceeds his wo...
7014 words—27 min read—172 reads
The Long Silence After
In this hard sci-fi light novel, Arc-9 monitors the Calloway Rest as a reactor cascade wipes out the crew, leaving him alone with one hundred thousand colonists in cryosleep. As the AI grapples with e...
7931 words—31 min read—179 reads