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Will McIntoshScience Fiction · Dystopian
Faller
On the first day, nobody remembers anything: not their names, not their families, not even how to read. The world has broken into islands of rock drifting in an endless sky. Food, water and electricity are gone, apart from scraps people manage to scavenge.
Faller wakes with three items in his pockets: a photo of himself with a woman he cannot place, a toy soldier fitted with a parachute, and a map drawn in blood. They are his only guide. He decides to jump from the edge of the world and look for her, hoping to put things right.
The fall takes him to other floating islands. There he meets impossible copies of himself and of other people. He also learns that one man hates him enough to want revenge for things Faller did and no longer remembers.
This is science fiction with a survival edge, told from the view of a man who has to piece together his own past. Every clue he follows may lead him closer to the woman or closer to an enemy.