Sunward Sky
by Henry Neilsen
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Pub Date 15 Feb 2025 | Archive Date 19 Mar 2025
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Description
Nobody wants to go to space...
Humanity's diaspora to the stars never happened. Space travel is too fraught with danger. It degenerates the muscles and bones of spacefarers to the point where life back on earth becomes unbearable. As a result, space work is now the purview of the forgotten, the desperate and the downtrodden. Those with nowhere else to go... but up. Once they're there, they're stuck, in terrible conditions and unable to return to the surface.
A desperate hope...
Alyssa, a postgraduate researcher, has signed up aboard the Sunward Sky, a tired spacecraft operating years beyond its service life. The ship repairs and maintains the network of GPS and communications satellites that keep the world operating. She's boarded with an experiment to run. Something that can help the crew, and maybe help humanity escape the dying Earth.
But she's not the only one with an agenda...
A Note From the Publisher
The debut novel of Henry Neilsen, Sunward Sky began life as a fiction podcast in 2020. Netting more than 80,000 downloads to date, the story has been edited and improved for its release as a novel.
Advance Praise
"A rollocking good SF yarn in the ‘action adventure/thriller’ mould, with some interesting world building along the way."
"If you like hard sci-fi, if you like near future, and if you like grey characters - you should check out Sunward Sky."
"The author brings the world of the Sunward Sky to life with the tiny details that help you feel the otherworldliness of low gravity, the vulnerability and loneliness of life in space, where the only things between you and the void are a thin layer of metal, poorly maintained filtration systems and colleagues who might actually be enemies."
"Sunward Sky is a gripping read, with splashes of science and humanity to ponder, with as much relevance now as it is in the future. I highly recommend it."
"Compelling in its depiction of the end state of the human condition but with enough humanity to hold out a glimmer of hope"
