Goy-Lem: A Project Negentropy Novel

By Nelson McKeeby

Ninti wanted a workshop, five ancient engines, and enough honest work to establish herself in Porte-la-Terre. Then a gunfight in a tea shop puts an old name back into circulation: Goy-Lem-the protector from an ancient story, created to stand between helpless people and destruction. Ninti insists the name cannot possibly belong to her.

Then the GoKabi Engineering Master Helix sends for her.
Far across the Illni Plains, beyond the Great River and deep inside country dominated by the Chinow, the abandoned laboratories of Argonne contain something Helix wants recovered. Ninti can read the forgotten technical language, understand the machinery, and identify the work of Dr. Miriam Ellicott, a scientist dead for a century and a half whose experiments uncovered something in the physical universe that science could measure but never explain. A small mercenary expedition can get Ninti to Argonne. Bringing her-and Ellicott's work-back is supposed to be the difficult part.

The mission is nearly over when they encounter hundreds of escaped slaves fleeing toward the river with Chinow warriors close behind. The wounded cannot keep pace. The children will not be abandoned. And one little girl has spent the last days of her mother's life carrying a promise: Goy-Lem is coming to save her.
Ninti has spent years studying humans, working beside them, fighting beside them, and trying to understand the strange obligations they accept toward one another. On the Illni Plains, with the river ahead and an army approaching from behind, she must decide what she is willing to become when someone finally believes she is the answer to a prayer.

Book 3 of the Clicker Series

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJXXMPRN
• ISBN13: 9798174641211
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"