This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
Split the Eastern Sky is a gripping blend of Old West drama, dystopian warning, and near-future speculation that spans centuries in a single breath. At the center is Isaac Pendleton, a tech visionary in the year 2038, whose immersive holographic gaming system plunges users into historically rich, and brutally honest, realities. In his latest creation, players experience life and death on the 19th-century Texas plains through the eyes of Erin Catherine Pendleton, his capable daughter and a crack shot, whose family fights to survive a deadly Native raid on their frontier homestead. But what begins as virtual escapism quickly reveals real-world consequences, entangling Isaac in a high-stakes clash with an overreaching government agency, F.O.M.E., embodied by the venomous bureaucrat Horatio Hudsucker.
As Isaac battles to keep control of his company, legacy, and freedom, Split the Eastern Sky widens its scope with the story of Tommy "Knight" Pendleton,Isaac's imprisoned brother, whose criminal past unravels in a parallel plot involving oil theft, government overreach, and the remnants of American individualism. Anchored by richly drawn characters like the principled Erin, the firebrand preacher-inmate Bless, and the calculating government watchdogs determined to crush dissent, the novel becomes a chilling examination of a future where truth is commodified, rebellion is criminalized, and even freedom is subject to tax.
Split the Eastern Sky is a cautionary tale as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, pulling readers into a morally complex saga where the line between hero and villain, virtual and real, is as thin as a trigger pull.
