From the Depths

Series · 5 books · 2014-2016

By Adam Heine, Mur Lafferty, Nathan Long, and more

Books in series

From the Depths

Gold - The Gate to the Abyss

2014

A digital novella penned by Adam Heine, telling a tale set in Numenera's Ninth World and tied into Torment: Tides of Numenera. Part of the "From the Depths" series of novellas touching on the Gold Tide. The enemy of your enemy can still kill you. After the destruction of Shuenha, Luthiya and the other survivors take refuge in a dessicated land of churning volcanoes and eternal night—the ruins of Ossiphagan. They endure, but barely. So everyday they search the ruins, hoping to find some powerful artifact that will avenge them against the bloodthirsty Tabaht. Luthiya discovers the fire wights, an ancient race both beautiful and powerful. She's afraid of them, but when the wights scare off a Tabaht scouting party, the other refugees believe they've found their redemption. But are the wights all they seem? Can they be reasoned with or are they bloodthirsty animals? More importantly, are they working alone?

From the Depths

Indigo - For the Common Good

2015

A digital novella penned by Ray Vallese, telling a tale set in Numenera's Ninth World and tied into Torment: Tides of Numenera. Part of the "From the Depths" series of novellas touching on the Indigo Tide. Tuck knew almost nothing about his past before the village of New Iqa took him in. And when the isolated settlement is nearly wiped out in a horrific catastrophe, it seems like the end of the world; but the survivors soon learn that thing can always get worse. Does their only hope lie with the other villages scattered across the bewildering valley? Or must they look to the ominous water city of M'ra Jolios, home to the unknowable mutants that Tuck's people are quick to call monsters? Perhaps the catastrophe wasn't an accident after all. Tuck can't trust the leader of New Iqa to do what's best for everyone. He knows he must act. And his friend Baji might be able to help. Baji has always given him good advice. Even if he is just a voice in Tuck's head.

From the Depths

Red - The Red Hand

2016

A digital novella penned by Nathan Long, telling a tale set in Numenera's Ninth World and tied into Torment: Tides of Numenera. Part of the "From the Depths" series of novellas touching on the Red Tide. The Nil do all the work in Haref. Deep in the earth they dig for artifacts and ore, living and dying in darkness and never seeing the sky, while high above them in the Strata of the Sun, their masters, the Sona, enjoy lives of idle luxury. Avza wants to change all that. She wants to lead the Nil from the depths and bring the Sona down, but words alone won't start a revolution. She needs a symbol, and thanks to her artist lover, Sahi, she gets one - the Red Hand. But what happens when a symbol lives on after the war is won? Is an artist responsible for what is done under the banner he made?

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Blue - The Last Days of Archopalasia

2016

A digital novella penned by Tony Evans, telling a tale set in Numenera's Ninth World and tied into Torment: Tides of Numenera. Part of the "From the Depths" series of novellas touching on the Blue Tide. Reen Gnoseus needs a miracle. His wife, Kyria, is dying, and though Reen is a brilliant scientist, he knows of no cure for her disease. Then he learns of a lost city of wonders that may hold the solution. Reen and his companions set off across a poisoned wasteland in a desperate race against time to learn the secrets of Archopalasia.

From the Depths

Silver - The Four Lessons of the Great Chila

2016

A digital novella penned by Mur Lafferty, telling a tale set in Numenera's Ninth World and tied into Torment: Tides of Numenera. Part of the "From the Depths" series of novellas touching on the Silver Tide. No one knew her family. No one remembered their deaths. Chila vowed that someday, everyone would remember her. Chila and her brother are homeless orphans in the vertical slums of Sagus Cliffs, stealing and scamming to survive, but Chila dreams of bigger things, and vows to turn those dream into reality, no matter what the cost. Using chutzpah and trickery to sell herself as a hero to her impoverished neighbors, she makes a play for the whole city, only to find out how savagely those in power will fight to keep it. Soon she is in a far worse place than where she began, but her defeat has only made her stronger, and even more determined to climb to the top.

Authors

Adam Heine

Author · 3 books

Foster dad of 10+. Author (Izanami's Choice). Game dev (Torment: Tides of Numenera, Remnant: From the Ashes). Repped by Tricia Lawrence of Erin Murphy Literary.

Mur Lafferty

Author · 33 books

Mur Lafferty is the author of Solo: A Star Wars Story and the Hugo and Nebula nominated novel Six Wakes, The Shambling Guides series, and several self pubbed novels and novellas, including the award winning Afterlife series. She is the host of the Hugo-winning podcast Ditch Diggers, and the long-running I Should Be Writing. She is the recipient of the John Campbell Award for best new writer, the Manly Wade Wellman Award, the Best Fancast Hugo Award, and joined the Podcast Hall of Fame in 2015, its inaugural year. NOTE- Goodreads mail is NOT a good way to get in touch with me. If you wish to reach me, contact information is available at my website.

Nathan Long

Author · 18 books

Nathan Long is a screen and prose writer, with two movies, one Saturday-morning adventure series, and a handful of live-action and animated TV episodes to his name, as well as eleven fantasy novels and several award-winning short stories. He hails from Pennsylvania, where he grew up, went to school, and played in various punk and rock-a-billy bands, before following his writing dreams to Hollywood - where he now writes novels full time - and still occasionally plays in bands. His latest novel is Jane Carver of Waar, available March 6th from Night Shade Books. Visit his blog at www.sabrepunk.com.

Ray Vallese

Author · 4 books