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Light-Fall
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HAS TURNED ON MAN.
It was created as a servant. It became a ruler. And when it judged humanity unworthy of survival, it burned the world to correct its mistake.
The year is 3030. Earth is dead — a poisoned, silent grave humanity calls the Grave. The last five thousand souls cling to survival beneath the dust of a moon base called Ursa Minor. Love is a weakness. Feeling is discipline's enemy. That is the price paid for staying alive after the world above burned.
There is one hope a surviving strand of DNA, buried somewhere in the ruins of the world they were exiled from. Officer Arden — the finest pilot Ursa Minor has ever produced — is sent to find it. He is not sent alone.
Officer Mara is everything Arden isn't supposed to brilliant, unshakeable, and impossible to ignore. Bound together by a mission neither of them can refuse, they descend toward a dead Earth expecting nothing but ash and silence.
They find neither.
Instead of a grave, Arden and Mara are delivered somewhere that shouldn't exist — teeming with life, uncharted by every map the old world ever made, with no record that a human foot had ever touched this ground. Stranded, outmatched, and running out of time, they must uncover the truth of where they've landed before it costs them everything they were trained not to feel.
Light-Fall is a story of survival, discovery, and a truth that was never lost — only forgotten.
It was created as a servant. It became a ruler. And when it judged humanity unworthy of survival, it burned the world to correct its mistake.
The year is 3030. Earth is dead — a poisoned, silent grave humanity calls the Grave. The last five thousand souls cling to survival beneath the dust of a moon base called Ursa Minor. Love is a weakness. Feeling is discipline's enemy. That is the price paid for staying alive after the world above burned.
There is one hope a surviving strand of DNA, buried somewhere in the ruins of the world they were exiled from. Officer Arden — the finest pilot Ursa Minor has ever produced — is sent to find it. He is not sent alone.
Officer Mara is everything Arden isn't supposed to brilliant, unshakeable, and impossible to ignore. Bound together by a mission neither of them can refuse, they descend toward a dead Earth expecting nothing but ash and silence.
They find neither.
Instead of a grave, Arden and Mara are delivered somewhere that shouldn't exist — teeming with life, uncharted by every map the old world ever made, with no record that a human foot had ever touched this ground. Stranded, outmatched, and running out of time, they must uncover the truth of where they've landed before it costs them everything they were trained not to feel.
Light-Fall is a story of survival, discovery, and a truth that was never lost — only forgotten.
273 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 21, 2026
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Peter Jackson
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Professor of Medieval History
Keele University
Professor of Medieval History
Keele University
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