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The Wall: Eternal Night
What if suddenly you could no longer see the sun? Or the stars? What if the world sank into darkness?
Off the coast of Sulawesi, an Indonesian fisherman named Putra Buring Bule nets a strange object from the depths. A few days later, Earth falls into total darkness – an unknown phenomenon blocks out the sun and the starry sky, and the world descends into chaos.
In the midst of a collapsing civilization, CIA agent Rodea Stone is sent to Sulawesi to retrieve Putra’s puzzling find and gets caught up in a truth that strains the limits of her imagination. Meanwhile, Montgomery Reed, a physicist at the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, is desperately trying to contact the NASA team on Unity Moon Base, who might well hold Earth’s only hope in their hands.
The Wall: Eternal Night depicts a fateful event that changes Earth and all its inhabitants forever. But there are two sides to every fate. In The Wall: Eternal Day by Brandon Q. Morris, you will learn about the other side.
Off the coast of Sulawesi, an Indonesian fisherman named Putra Buring Bule nets a strange object from the depths. A few days later, Earth falls into total darkness – an unknown phenomenon blocks out the sun and the starry sky, and the world descends into chaos.
In the midst of a collapsing civilization, CIA agent Rodea Stone is sent to Sulawesi to retrieve Putra’s puzzling find and gets caught up in a truth that strains the limits of her imagination. Meanwhile, Montgomery Reed, a physicist at the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, is desperately trying to contact the NASA team on Unity Moon Base, who might well hold Earth’s only hope in their hands.
The Wall: Eternal Night depicts a fateful event that changes Earth and all its inhabitants forever. But there are two sides to every fate. In The Wall: Eternal Day by Brandon Q. Morris, you will learn about the other side.
- GenresScience Fiction
338 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 12, 2021
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About the author
Joshua T. Calvert
55 books257 followersJoshua T. Calvert has traveled the world--on foot, by Jeep, by bicycle, by motorcycle, and lots of other ways besides. As you might imagine, he's seen many things most people never see - including an Iranian prison cell, from the inside! In Kyrgyzstan, he fared slightly better, narrowly avoiding being kidnapped for ransom. Skydiver, scuba diver, martial artist, adventurer - his goal is to experience everything possible, and then make it real to you in his books. And he's made a good run of it so far: in the Philippines, he did police training on multiple types of firearms (despite being no fan of guns himself); dove in Asian waters among sharks and shipwrecks; and patrolled with Sumatran jungle rangers.
That's what defines Calvert's approach to method writing: pushing himself beyond his own limits, to experience first-hand what his characters experience, to make your immersion in his stories as deep as it can be.
For Ganymede Rises, after a slight detour with some smugglers in the deserts of Uzbekistan and the steppes of Mongolia, he traveled by dogsled and snowshoe to the Arctic Circle to experience first-hand what it's like to be utterly isolated in the coldest place on Earth. For his book The Fossil, he sat with professional pilots in flight simulators for Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 aircraft to learn what it's like to fly a passenger jet. His latest adventure: a parabolic flight with European Space Agency astronauts, to experience zero-gravity. All so he can describe it to you, in his own words.
That's what defines Calvert's approach to method writing: pushing himself beyond his own limits, to experience first-hand what his characters experience, to make your immersion in his stories as deep as it can be.
For Ganymede Rises, after a slight detour with some smugglers in the deserts of Uzbekistan and the steppes of Mongolia, he traveled by dogsled and snowshoe to the Arctic Circle to experience first-hand what it's like to be utterly isolated in the coldest place on Earth. For his book The Fossil, he sat with professional pilots in flight simulators for Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 aircraft to learn what it's like to fly a passenger jet. His latest adventure: a parabolic flight with European Space Agency astronauts, to experience zero-gravity. All so he can describe it to you, in his own words.
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January 1, 2022
Fun read and great companion piece to "Eternal Day". Needs some fact checking.
I really enjoyed reading The Wall: Eternal Night. I read Eternal Day a few days ago and it was cool to see how they complimented each other.
I did have some quibbles with some issues, including long distance communications and the Internet being nearly completely brought down by the loss of satellites.
Regarding who had power provided by darkness sustainable methods; Iceland uses a great deal of geothermal power and would likely have plenty of power.
Loss of satellite communications would be hard but HF radio and, by extension, digital radio modes, such as packet radio, could be used for long distance voice end digital communication. VHF would have lots of uses locally, and further, if repeaters were able to be powered.
Lack of GPS would also be hard, but there would still be a lot of military and commercial transport (air and sea) using inertial navigation systems that could be used without GPS. Radar would also continue to work and be useful for many navigational tasks.
Railroads could also be used for land based transportation with no need for navigation, provided there was fuel/power. They could also be used for navigationless movement for easily made/repurposed human powered transport. This would of course require maps of the railroad systems and some occasional light to check signs and track switch settings.
Also, regarding the orbiting mirrors at the south pole: geostationary orbit must be in the plane of the Earth's equator - there's no such thing as polar geostationary orbit.
Although these items bugged me quite a bit, they didn't ruin the book and I still had a good time reading it.
I really enjoyed reading The Wall: Eternal Night. I read Eternal Day a few days ago and it was cool to see how they complimented each other.
I did have some quibbles with some issues, including long distance communications and the Internet being nearly completely brought down by the loss of satellites.
Regarding who had power provided by darkness sustainable methods; Iceland uses a great deal of geothermal power and would likely have plenty of power.
Loss of satellite communications would be hard but HF radio and, by extension, digital radio modes, such as packet radio, could be used for long distance voice end digital communication. VHF would have lots of uses locally, and further, if repeaters were able to be powered.
Lack of GPS would also be hard, but there would still be a lot of military and commercial transport (air and sea) using inertial navigation systems that could be used without GPS. Radar would also continue to work and be useful for many navigational tasks.
Railroads could also be used for land based transportation with no need for navigation, provided there was fuel/power. They could also be used for navigationless movement for easily made/repurposed human powered transport. This would of course require maps of the railroad systems and some occasional light to check signs and track switch settings.
Also, regarding the orbiting mirrors at the south pole: geostationary orbit must be in the plane of the Earth's equator - there's no such thing as polar geostationary orbit.
Although these items bugged me quite a bit, they didn't ruin the book and I still had a good time reading it.
January 13, 2022
I would love to give the story 4.5 stars, maybe even 5, but the ending, which felt more like the author gave up, was a poor choice in my opinion. If this were a book in a series or trilogy, it wouldn’t be so bad, as anything about what was going on and the outcome would be forthcoming in a subsequent book, but the non-ending was a huge disappointment. I hate to leave such a poor review, as I really enjoyed the book otherwise, but I cannot recommend it due to it ultimately feeling incomplete and unfinished. If the author decides to continue the story in the future, I’ll be super glad to update my review. For now, it’s a skip for me.
September 20, 2021
Interesting female lead character.
June 16, 2021
An exciting and interesting twist on first contact!
A first contact on biblical proportions, A must read!
Joshua has managed to create a new sci-fi epic story. From page one to the last page, I could hardly put it down, the characters draw you into the story, you feel their fears and wonder how you wold deal with their struggles.
Absolutely a nail biter from start to finish. Recommended to all sci-fi readers of all ages.
A first contact on biblical proportions, A must read!
Joshua has managed to create a new sci-fi epic story. From page one to the last page, I could hardly put it down, the characters draw you into the story, you feel their fears and wonder how you wold deal with their struggles.
Absolutely a nail biter from start to finish. Recommended to all sci-fi readers of all ages.
February 8, 2025
2.25 🌟 not worth it, kinda boring but held my attention enough to want to know what happened, but better than its companion book Eternal Day.
February 26, 2022
It was an interesting book but it was not complete. I dislike cliffhanger books that leave the possibility of a sequel, I hope that a sequel is in the works so that people who are younger than me will be able to know how it ends, I would recommend to a new reader to skip this book unless a sequel is written because there are a lot of very good books out there that do not waste your time.
August 28, 2025
Big spectacle, shaky logic.
This book reads almost like a sci-fi blockbuster, fast-paced, high-concept, and packed with cinematic moments.
** spoiler alert **
I was hooked by the mystery of the phenomenon itself, and I actually appreciated that it was never fully explained. Letting that ambiguity linger gave the story a haunting, open-ended feel that worked in its favor.
But there’s one plot point I couldn’t get past: the alien warning.
We’re told that this alien civilization had the power and precision to envelop an entire planet in advanced, awe-inspiring technology, something truly on a cosmic scale. And yet… the way they deliver their all-important warning to humanity is by encoding it in a cryptic radio signal on a single drone? A drone that gets shot down on arrival?
It’s a baffling choice. These beings go so far as to translate their message into every known human language, demonstrating deep knowledge and intent. But then they essentially tape that message to a rock and chuck it over the fence, hoping for the best.
The disconnect between the sophistication of the phenomenon and the primitive, fragile method of communication just didn’t make sense. It felt like a plot device designed to keep the characters in the dark, but not one that held up under even basic scrutiny.
It’s a shame, because the atmosphere, pacing, and sense of scale are genuinely impressive. But when the internal logic collapses, even the most visually stunning ideas can lose their impact.
This book reads almost like a sci-fi blockbuster, fast-paced, high-concept, and packed with cinematic moments.
** spoiler alert **
I was hooked by the mystery of the phenomenon itself, and I actually appreciated that it was never fully explained. Letting that ambiguity linger gave the story a haunting, open-ended feel that worked in its favor.
But there’s one plot point I couldn’t get past: the alien warning.
We’re told that this alien civilization had the power and precision to envelop an entire planet in advanced, awe-inspiring technology, something truly on a cosmic scale. And yet… the way they deliver their all-important warning to humanity is by encoding it in a cryptic radio signal on a single drone? A drone that gets shot down on arrival?
It’s a baffling choice. These beings go so far as to translate their message into every known human language, demonstrating deep knowledge and intent. But then they essentially tape that message to a rock and chuck it over the fence, hoping for the best.
The disconnect between the sophistication of the phenomenon and the primitive, fragile method of communication just didn’t make sense. It felt like a plot device designed to keep the characters in the dark, but not one that held up under even basic scrutiny.
It’s a shame, because the atmosphere, pacing, and sense of scale are genuinely impressive. But when the internal logic collapses, even the most visually stunning ideas can lose their impact.
January 13, 2022
A good read, but a few things strain credulity.
I enjoyed this novel, especially how each chapter jumped to another group of characters, giving a good amount of depth to the story. The only trite point of irritation that I had was a lack of ingenuity from humans who lost all satellites and the internet when things went down: several large plot points hinged on the lack of a communication infrastructure, but somehow. Humanity (and the military!) forgot about ham radio technology which would have made things a lot better for everyone. 😉
Another forgotten tech are balloons capable of reaching low earth orbit; after over a year scientists don't know anything about a sun- blocking phenomenon; I would give us science guys a chance to build some sort of probe to try to find some answers.
I enjoyed this novel, especially how each chapter jumped to another group of characters, giving a good amount of depth to the story. The only trite point of irritation that I had was a lack of ingenuity from humans who lost all satellites and the internet when things went down: several large plot points hinged on the lack of a communication infrastructure, but somehow. Humanity (and the military!) forgot about ham radio technology which would have made things a lot better for everyone. 😉
Another forgotten tech are balloons capable of reaching low earth orbit; after over a year scientists don't know anything about a sun- blocking phenomenon; I would give us science guys a chance to build some sort of probe to try to find some answers.
December 12, 2022
The Earth Perspective of The Wall
This companion piece to The Wall:Eternal Day is clearly written by a different author, but complements the other very well. This book gives some more background to The Wall and provides the Earth's viewpoint of the appearance and ensuing conflict from presence of The Wall. The perspective of a 'lowly' fisherman is combined with an elite CIA operative and a physicist as humanity's reaction to being plunged into perpetual darkness occurs.
There is intrigue, some graphic descriptions, suspense, heartfelt losses and joys as things go bad or well. The personalities of the characters shine through making it an enjoyable read. It will be interesting whether the story is continued and if so where it goes next....
This companion piece to The Wall:Eternal Day is clearly written by a different author, but complements the other very well. This book gives some more background to The Wall and provides the Earth's viewpoint of the appearance and ensuing conflict from presence of The Wall. The perspective of a 'lowly' fisherman is combined with an elite CIA operative and a physicist as humanity's reaction to being plunged into perpetual darkness occurs.
There is intrigue, some graphic descriptions, suspense, heartfelt losses and joys as things go bad or well. The personalities of the characters shine through making it an enjoyable read. It will be interesting whether the story is continued and if so where it goes next....
May 16, 2022
Inconsistent story line
As the title implies. It makes me wonder ,didn't the author read the story after it was completed and check for inconsistencies ? If "A" can happen then why can't "B" happen ?
There were some huge holes in the story which is a shame because they could had been easily fixed.
As the title implies. It makes me wonder ,didn't the author read the story after it was completed and check for inconsistencies ? If "A" can happen then why can't "B" happen ?
There were some huge holes in the story which is a shame because they could had been easily fixed.
December 30, 2021
Brilliant sci-fi look into the future
I found this book only because I read all of Brandon Q Morris' work. This is a refreshing look into a possible future (minus the fiction). I hung on every word and can only hope Morris' "Light Side" is as well written!
I found this book only because I read all of Brandon Q Morris' work. This is a refreshing look into a possible future (minus the fiction). I hung on every word and can only hope Morris' "Light Side" is as well written!
February 16, 2022
Great idea for a sci-fi book (the earth is encircled by a mysterious, impenetrable shroud that blocks all sunlight). Enjoyed the writing but ultimately fell a little flat at the end when it just stops with nothing resolved.
April 4, 2022
I decided to read this one first and all though it was good, but not really a page turner. I really don't know if ill read the other half or not. A lot of people are saying both are good but maybe I should have read the one first.
September 17, 2021
Great story line
These 2 books are a great read, but, to me, totally unfinished, with no word on a possible third. There are far too many unanswered conclusions. So, if you want to read unfinished stories they are good to attempt as long as you know they are incomplete. This is why I’m beginning to hate these serial books.
These 2 books are a great read, but, to me, totally unfinished, with no word on a possible third. There are far too many unanswered conclusions. So, if you want to read unfinished stories they are good to attempt as long as you know they are incomplete. This is why I’m beginning to hate these serial books.
November 14, 2021
Great read
The book read a long really well. Nice smooth dialog and the characters were well written. Good book now I have to find book 2.
The book read a long really well. Nice smooth dialog and the characters were well written. Good book now I have to find book 2.
November 22, 2021
Excellent!
Kept me on the edge of my chair. There was ag old deal of research that went into this book.
Kept me on the edge of my chair. There was ag old deal of research that went into this book.
March 29, 2022
Is this a life-changing book? No
Did I enjoy the heck out of it? Yes!
Did I enjoy the heck out of it? Yes!
August 17, 2023
Outstanding
I usually find myself speed reading through the slower parts of a book. Not this time.
Fascinating even with the slower parts.
I usually find myself speed reading through the slower parts of a book. Not this time.
Fascinating even with the slower parts.
May 9, 2024
Errors in fact
The author needs to spend a little more time in learning how the world works. This book is just another example of his naivety. What has happened to editors?
The author needs to spend a little more time in learning how the world works. This book is just another example of his naivety. What has happened to editors?
December 23, 2022
Es wird eine durchaus vielversprechende Geschichte, die ein hohes Potenzial birgt, mit angemessenen Zeitsprüngen, um die Spannung nicht zu verlieren, aufgebaut. Allerdings endet das Buch sehr abrupt, ohne die Geschichte wirklich zu einem Ende abzurunden. Der Leser steht also ohne den Hauch einer Vorahnung, wie die Fortsetzung aussehen könnte, da, was sehr enttäuschend ist.
September 7, 2023
Humanity blindly fumbling around in the dark? Thought this was fiction?
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