Social science fiction / apocalypse / hopeful / first contact / unreliable narrator Once, in the Time of One Moon, only Luna danced as Earth's small sister. The land and ocean were separate. The land was dry, the ocean tame. Now in the Time of Two Moons, the land and ocean are no longer separate. The land is no longer dry, the ocean no longer tame. It is the year of Two Moons 328. I am of The Last People. We are forbidden to make record, but I write in the old language because my mother, the last of The Akashic High Priestess, taught and commanded me so for those of The New World, in the time that is next and for those who do not know. My mother is dead. Her name is Nela. My name is Neko. This is not sand. This stays. ⍜° 400 years after Two Moons Cataclysm, Neko, the first-born male and last of the line of The Akashic High Priestess, is tasked with the forbidden: to record the history of The Last People and write a new story so that they can leave their crumbling ocean citadel of Mitpar and cross The Endless Water Plain to The Mountain. But as he writes so he grows bolder, putting himself and the people around him in danger. ******** The Akashic Records of The Last People as Written by Neko is for readers who like the history of our future stories with a nested narrative, unreliable narrators whose language develops through the story, great world-building, with a sprinkling of hard sci-fi. ******** // NOTE TO EBOOK READERS: Since the spacing of the words on the page are used to tell the story, other ebook readers have suggested that you switch from justified to ragged-right for a better reading experience. Apologies for the inconvenience, but Neko writes as he writes. // What other readers have said: ***** An instant classic – Jason, Goodreads ***** A very imaginative story with so much heart. Neko will stay with me for a long time. – Louisa, Goodreads ***** A delicate and deft novella, upending traditional end-of-the-world narratives to remind us of the original meaning of "apocalypse": revealing something that was hidden. – Tom, Goodreads ***** Happiness: science fiction with soul. – Sherry, Goodreads ***** I love Connie Willis' work in particular and this feels a bit like that – there is a stockpiling of plot, emotion and personal context that gets trickled through to the reader. – Sarah, Goodreads