It Is Only Suffering — Alexandra Amalova

'This is my story. Moon's story. And the story of another...'

The Aria, a Resistance ship escaping the Executive purge of 1249, is tracked to Satellite252 of Inversion 6, a gas giant in the Inversion system. Moon, a survivor of the ensuing battle, is left alone, stranded on this spherical frozen hell. Caverns discovered deep below the surface offer her shelter, food and warmth where she can recover, take stock, and write her journal in memory of her lost friends and colleagues.

Her determination to survive, to lead some sort of meaningful existence, drives her to create a companion of sorts, a relatively crude machine to sate her most base needs. However, with its primary purpose firmly in place and when left with the tools and materials to improve itself, the machine quickly develops beyond anything she could have possibly imagined.

All six volumes of 'The Inversion Chronicles' are now available individually from Amazon. Alternatively, they can be found bound together in the recently published 'The Complete Inversion Chronicles'.