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Leaving on a Metal Horizon is a novel set in the dark sci-fi and cyberpunk ChromaSpyke universe by Alexander Mharcei.
Cyberpunk does not end at the edge of a city. Control gets worse when it’s the only thing keeping you alive.
Verge is a deep-space station at the edge of known space. Forgotten, unregulated, and owned by whoever has the leverage to claim it. If you arrive, you work. If you don’t, you disappear.
Amit Tarnen is Verge’s dockmaster. Broke, addicted, violent, and cornered. A man who appears to be losing everything while the station quietly closes around him.
The administrator offers protection, access, and opportunity. In return, Amit is asked for favors. The kind that bind without ever sounding like a contract. Each job feels smaller than the last. Each concession easier to justify. Verge rewards usefulness. It punishes hesitation.
When Amit is quietly tasked with locating a piece of forbidden technology for the station’s unseen overseer, secrecy becomes survival. Pressure tightens. Every move draws attention. Every weakness is exploited. Debt, desire, and surveillance are used to keep him valuable and contained.
Verge is not just a station. It is a proving ground. A place where void fishers chase fortune and corporations test ownership, identity, and obedience far from oversight.
Escape is not heroic. It is not clean. And it will not leave Amit intact.
Leaving on a Metal Horizon is a bleak, desperate cyberpunk thriller about economic captivity, transhuman escape, and the cost of surviving systems designed to consume people whole. There are no victories here. Only the question of how much of yourself you are willing to trade to get out alive.
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