Iron Blood: A Family Forged at Industrial Scale

By Han Be

IRON BLOOD
A science fiction novel
Life on the asteroid Psyche is built from steel, vacuum, and compromise.
Aurelia Voss knows this better than most. An engineer by instinct and a strategist by necessity, she marries into the Argyros dynasty at the heart of humanity's metal supply, and raises her daughter Camille inside an empire that never sleeps. Artificial suns rise on schedule. Production never stops. One failure can ripple through habitats, markets, and lives.
Power in the Argyros family is never simple.
Leonidas, the eldest son, rules with charm and excess, convinced the empire will bend to his will.
Etienne, disciplined and relentless, believes survival comes from order, restraint, and long planning.
Khalid, brilliant and volatile, refuses to wait his turn, and builds his own kingdom in the shadows.
As rival corporations circle Psyche, regulators bargain over "stability," and new technologies threaten to upend the entire metals economy, Aurelia is forced into the center of the struggle, not as a figurehead, but as the one who keeps systems alive when others fail.
Camille has to grow up fast, in the midst of the struggle and turmoil.
She learns early that safety is conditional, that family can be both shelter and threat, and that love does not protect you from power. While other children learn stories, she learns risk assessments. While others dream of escape, she learns how empires endure.
Iron Blood is a hard-science-fiction saga about survival inside systems too large to forgive mistakes, about motherhood under pressure, siblings divided by ambition, and growing up when your home is an industrial machine.
For readers of Kim Stanley Robinson, Neal Stephenson, and Iain M. Banks, Iron Blood offers a cold, intimate vision of the future, where competence is the only inheritance that matters, and even family must be engineered to survive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GJRV25H2
• ISBN13: 9798245568928
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"