Little summary: Long ago, following a cataclysm called “The Rupture,” the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands. Known now as Arks, each has developed in distinct ways; each seems to possess its own unique relationship to time, such that nowadays vastly different worlds exist, together but apart. And over all of the Arks the spirit of an omnipotent ancestor abides.
Darweenn on
The starless sea?
Distinct_Pianist_812 on
Parable of the sower by Octavia Butler
ShakespeherianRag on
*The Farthest Shore* by Ursula K. Le Guin, where the world is literally falling apart as nihilism takes root in the cosmos.
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The Mirror Visitor (by Christelle Dabos) maybe?
Little summary: Long ago, following a cataclysm called “The Rupture,” the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands. Known now as Arks, each has developed in distinct ways; each seems to possess its own unique relationship to time, such that nowadays vastly different worlds exist, together but apart. And over all of the Arks the spirit of an omnipotent ancestor abides.
The starless sea?
Parable of the sower by Octavia Butler
*The Farthest Shore* by Ursula K. Le Guin, where the world is literally falling apart as nihilism takes root in the cosmos.