
The Spark
Book One of The Cryptex Cycle
Blade(Author)
Deus Machina Publishing
2nd Edition
Published on 5. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
116 pages
979-8-9931156-0-3 (ISBN)
Description
When the Moon shattered, the world broke with it.
Centuries later, fragments of its ruin still circle the Earth, a scarred world where memory bends and the future echoes backward. Civilizations have fallen, Furborne kingdoms rise, and in the shadows of old empires, relics of impossible design still hum with power.
Faber, a weary collector of these relics, and Mereya, his silent companion, discover a device that is more than machine. The Ciliax holds something alive, something that whispers across cycles of time. To protect it is to guard a secret that could end or remake the world. To lose it is to surrender the last spark of hope.
Pursued by cults and the fractured remnants of a long-forgotten power, Faber and Mereya must decide whether the weight of survival is worth carrying-or if the soul of the world should be allowed to burn.
The Spark is the opening volume of the Cryptex Cycle, part of the mythic Shattered Moon Cycle-a dark, visionary blend of science fiction, philosophy, and cosmic mystery. For readers of speculative and mythic sci-fi, it is a story of ruin, memory, and the fragile light that endures.
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Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-9931156-0-3 (9798993115603)
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Blade is the author of the Shattered Moon Cycle, a speculative saga of fractured empires, cosmic forces, and the memory of a broken Moon. His novels carry mythic weight while his novellas and short stories read like scripture from this future world. He publishes under his own imprint, Deus Machina Publishing.