Voidhold Zero

Self-Published

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Description

Voidholds. Ancient installations drifting through a gas giant's atmosphere, maintained by secretive machines. Shade, a woman raised in their shadow, and Sixflame, a man forged on abandoned corporate world, must uncover what the voidholds truly are before these alien systems remember their purpose.

Volume 1: Voidhold Zero (Completed).Raised in isolation to serve her family and a cast of robotic functionaries, Shade uncovers what Voidhold Zero's frozen commander spent a century hiding.

Volume 2: Moon Anchor Red (Completed).Plucked from his dying world by cultists, Sixflame survives their lies and a violent moon, only to discover that the voidholds are an even greater threat.

Volume 3:What Listens in Static (Completed).Duelldua has one purpose: shut down the Voidhold System quickly and painlessly. But when Shade and Sixflame stop its countdown, the ancient machine must try to scheme and manipulate its way to success. Unfortunately, that's much harder when these humans are just so damned likeable...

Volume 4:Profundis Cognita (Ongoing):The voidhold humans needed a savior, and Sixflame volunteered. But he landed on the wrong voidhold, one that vanished a hundred years ago. Finding him will fall to Shade and Duelldua, but finding out what drove Voidhold One into hiding will fall to him.

Posting schedule is twice a week.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2025
Author: Anthemis

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Rating: 5.0/ 5.0
Followers: 24
Views: 13,060

Chapters(105 total)

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Community Reviews(2)

Sketch OwainRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Voidhold Zero is an inventive soft sci-fi novel filled with unique world building and interesting characters.
Set within the swirling purple clouds of a gas giant, voidholds are where the last survivors of the human race live out their existence. The voidholds themselves serve almost as characters and have a seemingly vast history and untold mysteries to uncover. For me it was these mysteries and the overall oddness of the setting that won me over. The voidholds feel rich with history and tradition and the people inhabiting them are believable considering the world they've been born into.
As for characters, the star of the show is Shade, the ghost of Voidhold Zero. She is as socially awkward and damaged as you'd expect someone brought up in her conditions to be. But she very quickly proves herself to be a strong personality. She becomes a very likeable character without loosing her 'otherness' and awkward state of being. As for the others, the world is full of people to like and hate.
I don't think it is a spoiler, but I will carefully mention that I think the less-than-human characters were excellently written. They are witty, compelling, and fun, but very obviously do not think like us, which was a very interesting dynamic.
The plot is very straight forward but not simple nor predictable. It is always interesting and doesn't shy away from some quite gruesome territory now and again.
Overall, I recommend this novel to fans of sci-fi with a fantasy leaning and whimsical world building.
transientvoiceRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I love reading this. It's fun, and the world building and characters are great.
There's no big exposition dumps. If the mc already knows something about the world then it's not going to be reexplained for your sake. You learn things slowly through fragments of information you're drip fed in a way that doesn't disrupt the flow of the story.
The characters are fun. All the characters feel 'complete'. Mostly flawed and broken, but that never feels forced or unexplainable.