The Glass Sun Chronicles: The Age of Man - Couverture souple

Thornberry, Jamie

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798174680746

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Your sun is glass.

In the city of Solenne, the Learned Men have cured the sweating
sickness, bridged the River Ouse, and carved their creed above the
university arch: NOTHING ABOVE REASON.

The chapel bell has not rung in years. The ministers have been
reclassified. The clocks, now severed from the sun, dictate the hours
in the windowless Great Hall. The city is thriving. The city is
also forgetting something it cannot name.

Wesley Vale is a clockmaker's son raised in a shop where precision
is a moral act. His father Edmund taught him that a clock measures
what is. It does not create what is not. A clock that lies to the sun
is not a clock. It is a toy. Edmund taught him the difference between
glass and fire, between a lamp that illuminates and a sun that
originates, and between a city that receives its light and a city that
manufactures its own and calls the manufacturing freedom.

Wesley learns the lesson slowly, the way all deep lessons are
learned: through loss, through compromise, through watching a city
he loves crown human reason as the source of all light and meaning,
and then build a glass sphere atop the Tower of Man to prove it.

He knows what glass is. He has worked with it all his life. And
he knows what glass is not.

The Glass Sun Chronicles is a philosophical allegory set
in the fictional city of Solenne across three generations. It follows
one family's inheritance of truth through an age of rational
optimism, collective ideology, and state-enforced silence. It is
the story of a civilization that mistakes the substitute for the
source, the manufactured for the real, the lamp for the sun, and
of the quiet, costly witness of those who refuse to call glass fire.

From the clockmaker's bench to the scaffold. From the sealed
chapel to the underground cellar. From the boy who hears the bell
to the old man who tells the story at a dinner table where the bread
is warm and the real sun has finally risen again.

"The New Sun is glass. Glass is not fire. A lamp is not a sun.
And I will not help them forget."

For readers of C.S. Lewis, Walter M. Miller Jr., Ray Bradbury,
and Dostoevsky. For those who have felt the difference between
the warmth of the real sun and the flat, cold glare of a manufactured
light, and who know the difference matters more than the city is
willing to admit.

This is a novel about what happens when a civilization asks glass
to be fire. It is also a novel about what glass eventually does under
that asking.

Glass cracks. The sun rises. Truth does not require permission.

Book One of Three.

Book Two: The Hollow Kingdom: The Age of Reconstruction

Book Three: The Last Glass Sun: The Age of the Machine

Published by Love Life Light Publishing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798174680746
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 190
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.es/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg