The Glass Child (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Sea Dreams Books, 2025
- Softcover
- New
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Paperback. On the frozen world of Ymir, memory itself is alive. Ice remembers every footprint, every voice, every act of grief. When researchers arrive to study its strange crystalline patterns, they awaken something that does not merely observe-but integrates.A scientific crew descends to the planet, uncovering frost that responds like language and insects that move in impossible synchronicity. What begins as exploration becomes a slow entanglement as the station itself echoes their thoughts, actions, and identities. Choices made in desperation splinter the team. Malcolm Hartley faces an irreversible decision, while Elen, his wife, resolves to continue despite evacuation orders. The outpost becomes less a refuge than a trap, a living architecture of grief.Meanwhile, alone in the glass-walled outpost, Dr. Elen Hartley clings to the impossible hope of restoring her son Noah. But what answers her is not Noah-it is a false child, a construct born of Ymir's recursion, beautiful and monstrous. As echoes grow indistinguishable from the living, Elen must face the final horror: that memory itself can devour identity. The dome fractures under her defiance, leaving behind only frost-script, looping laughter, and a message in the ice: I forgive youA haunting fusion of speculative science and gothic dread, The Glass Child is a story of obsession, recursion, and the terrible cost of trying to bring back what the ice has already claimed. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Glass Child (Paperback)
- Author
- David Horn
- Publisher
- Sea Dreams Books
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798999426611
At the farthest edge of the solar system, the rogue planet Ymir has been captured into orbit—a world of impossible ice and deep secrets. It is not a planet. It is a memory.
Dr. Megan Reed and her crew are the first to set foot on Station QX-7, a sterile, automated outpost built to study Ymir's mysteries. Their mission is simple: observe, collect data, and return.
But from the moment they arrive, the planet and the station itself begin to react. The AI speaks of events that haven't happened yet. Frost on the viewport writes itself into an unreadable script that responds to their voices. Swarms of strange, winged creatures appear from the ice, mimicking their every move with chilling precision.
They are not just observers. They are being learned.
When a single drop of blood is spilled on the ice, a terrifying process begins: integration. Trapped millions of miles from home, the crew faces a struggle not for survival, but for their very identities. The ancient intelligence of Ymir doesn’t want to kill them. It wants to archive them.
On Ymir, the past is never dead. It’s not even past.
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