Hold Still the Sky: the complete story

By Cameron McVey

When the sky falls, survival demands more than sacrifice. It demands obedience.

After the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, ash blots out the sun and civilization collapses. Humanity's remaining survivors retreat beneath sealed domes, where every breath, calorie, and living cell must be carefully controlled.

Kara works high above the settlement, maintaining the solar sails that keep her people alive. It is dangerous, lonely work-but the world below is even more unforgiving. To remain within the dome's rigid biomass limits, citizens are expected to surrender pieces of themselves for the survival of the whole.

Then Kara encounters something impossible in the poisoned sky: a vast, luminous intelligence unlike any life humanity has ever known.

Its arrival could offer a path beyond the domes-or become the final threat to an already dying species. As fear spreads and the settlement's carefully maintained order begins to fracture, Kara must decide whether humanity's future lies in preserving the system that saved it or risking everything to reach for something greater.

Hold Still the Sky is a thought-provoking post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel about survival, bodily autonomy, first contact, and the terrible price of keeping humanity alive.

Perfect for readers who enjoy atmospheric speculative fiction, morally complex dystopias, alien mysteries, and character-driven stories about humanity at the edge of extinction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1494412713
• ISBN13: 9781494412715
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"