THE FLUX CATASTROPHE

The Flux Catastrophe is an action-packed fusion of desert-punk scifi and grimdark fantasy. Climb aboard the walking fortress of Revance to experience a world of sandstorms and scrap metal, with blood-rushing gunfights, battles with enchanted machines and magic that pushes to the brink of reality.

Follow Ryza, the freshest conscript of Revance’s army, as he races to stop a mutiny that threatens to expose his dark upbringing and undo the dire consequences that follow.

THE WORLD OF THE DROUGHTLANDS

Towers of glass and hyper-machined steel lie buried in the red dunes that sweep through The Droughtlands. They are the remains of an ancient civilisation known only to the surface dwellers as those-of-glass.

Contained within them are magics unlike any of the rune-based magics employed by those of The Droughtlands. It’s said to be the echoes of what wiped the ancient, advanced people out, yet even after countless eons, it still poses an incomprehensible threat to those that brave the tantalising depths.

Instead, a living is made among the sandstorms and scrap metal far away from these places, where the trade of mysterious objects obtained from the ruins is as valuable as it is taboo, often with disastrous consequences.

THE CHANGING NATURE OF MOLTEN FLUX

Molten flux is a volatile substance at the best of times. The silver liquid metal is self-replicating, knowing only the limits of the vessel it’s stored in. A single drop landing on bare skin is enough to turn that unfortunate person into an automind —one of the semi-resurrected corpses used to control larger and larger machines. If more than a bucketful is gathered, it risks turning to blazing flux, its noxious, gaseous form that is lethal to those who breathe it. Now the wreckage left by the walking fortress of Revance is full of it and Ryza faces the impossible task of cleaning it up.

THE EXPANDED WORLD OF THE DROUGHTLANDS

Ruins within ruins. Worlds upon worlds.

This mantra muttered by those of The Droughtlands also rings true for the books that chart the sand-swept wastes. Each series is largely its own contained adventure, but they will also interweave with the other stories set in this world in hidden and unexpected ways.

Secrets and riddles lie stretched across periods of decades and centuries, both forwards and backwards, offering different perspectives depending on reading order.