False Gods in Brass Cathedrals: Directive Tantalus

In Aether City, truth is a crime, and Victor Harlan used to be its enforcer. Once a trusted agent of the Directorate’s Internal Science Authority, Victor disappeared after uncovering a conspiracy too monstrous to ignore: families erased from memory, entire districts wiped clean, and the city’s population pacified by chemical obedience. Now presumed dead, Victor survives at the bottom rungs of the city, hiding in shadows beneath towers that stretch into the clouds.
When Elira, a ghost from his past, steps back into his life carrying evidence the Directorate missed, Victor is forced to make a choice, keep running, or turn and fight a regime that knows no mercy.

Set in a brutal dieselpunk metropolis in 1932 where analog machines govern lives that never existed, False Gods in Brass Cathedrals is a noir thriller about memory, guilt, and rebellion. For fans of Blade Runner, Sin City, and 1984, this is a story about the cost of waking up, and the war that begins when one man decides not to forget.