Welcome, once again, dear readers, to the next instalment of the Sea of Spheres series. This story, The Right to Know, is a bit of a departure from the previous stories in the sense that it leans into a more science-fiction influenced part of the setting. I've tried to balance the writing in such a way as to make it believable that this takes place in the same, more fantasy influenced world of the previous stories.
Of course, as ever the artwork is by the fantastic Windlass, who has if anything absolutely nailed the balance and really stuck the right aesthetic of 'fantasy world with modern technology' that I'm trying to go for.
In the aftermath of a catastrophe that left an advanced dimension jumping ship crashing into the savage sphere of Gemini, the Horns that reside there soon found themselves with technology far in advance of their rivals, but with little practical knowledge of how it all worked. A half-century later, detectives Garrick Ceraface and Cardina Mordang, while on the trail of a missing scientist, soon find themselves on the wrong side of the law, and learn that the cost of keeping their civilisation afloat might be far greater than they could ever conceive.
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The story discusses themes of police oversight, resource scarcity and environmental catastrophe. You can read it here.
Part one is up now, and parts two to four will follow every Monday.
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