A Piper at the Gates
Orr, Stuart Michael
ISBN 10: 176408831X ISBN 13: 9781764088312
Published by Civilised APE, 2025
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“Twisting, tumbling through the endless black, the boy pursed his lips, and with his last breath, he whistled.”
– from A Piper at the Gates
A song is haunting the children of starship Hamelin.
They hear it everywhere—in their VR chambers, in their dreams, even through the locked doors of their family cabins. The melody calls to them. Beckons them. Especially Jack and Lucy.
Lucy lives under the eye of her military mother, dreaming of escape. Jack builds strange instruments out of salvaged code and sorrow. Neither of them knows who The Piper is… but both know they’re being called.
As the Fleet drifts through deep space—fleeing a dying Earth, bound for a planet they’ll never live to see—Jack and Lucy begin to unravel the mystery behind the song. What they discover will tear their lives apart… and offer a chance to become something more than the system ever allowed.
Piper at the Gates is a lyrical sci-fi coming-of-age novel about love, rebellion, and the music that frees us.
For readers who love...
- Lyrical speculative fiction exploring grief, identity, and imagination
- Stories like A Monster Calls, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and Lanny
- Quiet revolutionaries, mythic echoes, and the haunted edges of technology
Aboard the starship Hamelin, families live isolated lives, policed by strict hierarchy and digital illusion. Children study in immersive VR chambers, cut off from their parents and each other. But something has slipped through the system: a song, ancient and impossible, leaking through code and memory.
Told through dual perspectives and set against a backdrop of interstellar exile, Piper at the Gates blends sci-fi, surrealism, and psychological realism in the first novel of The Children of Hamelin trilogy.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: A Piper at the Gates
Publisher: Civilised APE
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: HRD
Condition: New