And another one done! I had thought the sixth Dome of Souls novel would be the last, but, as you can guess from this formulation, it isn’t! The “end” of number 6 just screamed for a number 7, which I have already written (third draft status or so). It looks like number 7 will indeed be the last of my Dome of Souls series, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
Let’s talk about number 6: Dust and Glory.

We have come full circle. In Dome Child, during the first Dome revelation ever, Jove Hendricks saw a couple of planets, those turned out to be Bahrein, Fangust, New Earth and a fourth planet described as such: “Jove saw a fourth planet, gray, brown, dusty, no surface water and a fleet of spaceships in its orbit, weird ones. They were clearly alien, definitely not human, formed like capsules, spherical but not round, bulky in the middle but thinned out left and right. They were spiked with what looked like antennas and entirely black. They didn’t seem to be made of metal, but some other unidentifiable material.”
Jove thought this was a fourth planet. He didn’t know that Earth would look like this after those bombs that his friend and nemesis Shavendra built, would be triggered after all.

Contrary to common belief on New Earth, the exodus of humankind from Old Earth was not 100% complete. A thousand people stayed behind, gathering in the city of Jordan. The population doubled in the meantime, now two thousand people live inside Jordan’s barrier. To his shock the botanist Jinclair finds out that those two thousand humans are not the only ones anymore that are living on Old Earth. Without the people in Jordan even noticing, mysterious aliens have settled on Old Earth and they mean trouble.
Finally all of Jove’s visions in his first Dome revelation have become reality. It took a couple thousand years to get to this point, but here we are, in the middle of Dust and Glory, facing a hitherto unknown, new, and aggressive, alien species.
It was very satisfactory for me to come full circle and to have completed Jove’s Dome revelation, well, it’s only really completed in book 7, but the mess starts in book 6