Earth has rebuilt from its ashes. Humanity staggers forward, still clinging to its old fears. But Baren has no interest in saving it.
He builds a ship. He leaves.
What he finds is Aethel—a breathtaking alien world haunted by silence, song, and the sacred Weeping Stone, an object of mystery worshipped by the native Hylos.
When paths collide, so too do science and myth, evolution and belief, godhood and guilt. Baren doesn’t just seek understanding—he seeks dominion. But Aethel holds its own secrets... and some knowledge was never meant to be dissected.
A darkly poetic exploration of power, transformation, and the unknowable, Weeping Stone is a first-contact epic for readers who love the philosophical intensity of Liu Cixin, the lyrical strangeness of Le Guin, and the unsettling awe of Arrival.