Ocean of Civilizations: The Ascension of K2-18b - A Graphic Novel

The ocean tried to warn them. Nobody listened.

On K2-18b, a world with no shore, three rival civilizations share one supercritical ocean: the Cephaloids, master bio-engineers who grow their cities like thought in the abyssal trenches; the Merfolk, who sing their coral spires into being; and the Delphions, nomad navigators who live in the currents themselves.

For days the water trembles in patterns of seven. A young scientist calls it a warning from the stars. A Delphion navigator says the same. Both are dismissed.

Then the Great Shatterer falls.

From the ruins, Xyloctis the engineer, Aryala the diplomat, Joval the navigator, Neryon the commander and Lurien the healer must lead three wounded peoples out of the Great Silence, from a cave of refugees to a city on the waves, from a city in the sky to a station in orbit.

A full-colour science-fiction graphic novel, packed with the lore of its world: lost songs from the Harmonics Archive, the first Unity Ceremony, reef gardens that grow metal one grain at a time, the separatists of the Deep Reef Colony, fusion cuisine, and the first child born outside the ocean.

What you get:

- 92 pages, 180 full-colour panels, 6 chapters

- PDF (7 x 10 in) with cover

- EPUB fixed-layout edition for ereaders and tablets

Based on the novel "Ocean of Civilizations: The Ascension of K2-18b" by Valentin Sarić. Illustrations created with AI image generation, art-directed and edited by the author.