I of the Storm - Lower Heaven, Episode One
Benjamin Loomis
- Twelve
- score
- and
- four
- years
- ago,
- the
- Founders
- crash-landed
- in
- a
- new
- world.
- Fleeing
- the
- war-ravaged
- Old
- Continent,
- these
- brave
- refugees
- built
- a
- city
- on
- the
- principles
- of
- Merit,
- Logic,
- and
- Freedom.
- They
- named
- this
- new
- place
- Heaven.Two
- centuries
- later,
- Heaven's
- on
- the
- verge.
- The
- city
- swells
- with
- people,
- solar
- shortages
- and
- food
- panics
- rule
- the
- day.
- The
- City
- Corps
- polices
- the
- streets
- with
- high-tech
- magic,
- while
- the
- Wizard
- government
- mandates
- top-down
- solutions
- from
- their
- lofty
- glass
- pyramids.And
- beyond
- the
- lake-wall,
- hunters
- chase
- magical
- storms
- that
- transform
- beasts
- and
- shatter
- the
- human
- brain,
- risking
- sanity
- for
- a
- chance
- to
- make
- their
- fortune.Felix
- and
- Vic
- would
- be
- happy
- to
- make
- their
- rent.
- The
- two
- roommates
- struggle
- for
- a
- place
- in
- a
- city
- with
- no
- room
- for
- them,
- trying
- to
- get
- ahead,
- without
- being
- crushed
- beneath
- the
- Founders'
- dream
- for
- a
- better
- world.Lower
- Heaven
- is
- a
- five-part
- serial
- novel
- exploring
- cultural
- myths
- and
- realities
- in
- a
- speculative,
- millennial,
- solarpunk,
- universe,
- the
- debut
- work
- of
- Benjamin Loomis.
