Description
On a lost, thousand-year-old ship that has grown into a living forest, a death monk devoted to guiding souls finds his rituals tested by the arrival of a skeptical team of academics—and by the unsettling presence of something that has survived beyond human time. As the researchers investigate a relic of Earth’s dying past, they are picked off one by one in a locked-room style nightmare where the boundaries between faith, science, and sentience blur. With his AI companion and hard-won spiritual discipline, the monk must decide whether the Infinite Light he serves is salvation—or a veil for a deeper, stranger intelligence. Darkly philosophical and suspenseful, this novel blends cosmic mystery with themes of grief, belief, and the ethics of understanding the unknown, in a voice that echoes the genre’s most haunting, character-driven speculative traditions.
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paperback
Kensington Publishing Corp
Published Feb 24, 2026
401 pages
ISBN: 9781645662143
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First Published
2026
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Iron Garden Sutra by A.D. Sui.