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DarkTrench Shadow #3
Fractured: Fragment One
All ThreadBare wants is to protect those he loves.
Following the death of the tyrannical Imam, Thread escapes to his job as instructor in a school for future debuggers. With his love interest Damali now nearby, he seeks peace, contentment, and as normal a life as a freed techno-slave can have.
Beyond the school’s walls, though, a new reality festers. Anti-tech terrorists increase their attacks, growing more emboldened with every success. In response, the new regime tightens its grip, threatening everyone in ThreadBare’s circle.
With warring factions surrounding him, a new ally enters the fray, sending Thread on his most dangerous task yet. It’s a mission that will push him farther than he’s ever gone, reframe everything he believes, and expose Earth-shattering knowledge.
But will it fracture all he’s trying to protect?
Following the death of the tyrannical Imam, Thread escapes to his job as instructor in a school for future debuggers. With his love interest Damali now nearby, he seeks peace, contentment, and as normal a life as a freed techno-slave can have.
Beyond the school’s walls, though, a new reality festers. Anti-tech terrorists increase their attacks, growing more emboldened with every success. In response, the new regime tightens its grip, threatening everyone in ThreadBare’s circle.
With warring factions surrounding him, a new ally enters the fray, sending Thread on his most dangerous task yet. It’s a mission that will push him farther than he’s ever gone, reframe everything he believes, and expose Earth-shattering knowledge.
But will it fracture all he’s trying to protect?
227 pages, Paperback
Published June 27, 2025
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Kerry Nietz
37 books177 followersKerry Nietz is an award-winning science fiction author. He has over a dozen speculative novels in print, along with a novella, a couple short stories, and a non-fiction book, FoxTales.
Kerry’s novel A Star Curiously Singing won the Readers Favorite Gold Medal Award for Christian Science Fiction and is notable for its dystopian, cyberpunk vibe in a world under sharia law. It has over a hundred 5-star reviews on Amazon and is often mentioned on “Best of” lists.
Among his writings, Kerry's most talked about is the genre-bending Amish Vampires in Space. AViS was mentioned on the Tonight Show and in the Washington Post, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. Newsweek called it “a welcome departure from the typical Amish fare.”
Kerry is a refugee of the software industry. He spent more than a decade of his life flipping bits, first as one of the principal developers of the database product FoxPro for the now mythical Fox Software, and then as one of Bill Gates's minions at Microsoft. He is a husband, a father, a technophile and a movie buff.
Kerry’s novel A Star Curiously Singing won the Readers Favorite Gold Medal Award for Christian Science Fiction and is notable for its dystopian, cyberpunk vibe in a world under sharia law. It has over a hundred 5-star reviews on Amazon and is often mentioned on “Best of” lists.
Among his writings, Kerry's most talked about is the genre-bending Amish Vampires in Space. AViS was mentioned on the Tonight Show and in the Washington Post, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. Newsweek called it “a welcome departure from the typical Amish fare.”
Kerry is a refugee of the software industry. He spent more than a decade of his life flipping bits, first as one of the principal developers of the database product FoxPro for the now mythical Fox Software, and then as one of Bill Gates's minions at Microsoft. He is a husband, a father, a technophile and a movie buff.
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September 3, 2025
The novel Fractured: Fragment One is the third book of the DarkTrench Shadow Series, which is a parallel series to the DarkTrench Saga Novels.
So, DarkTrench revisited!
Well, sort of ...
Yes, it's the world of SandFly and HardCandy! But from a different angle. We're back with ThreadBare and all his misgivings. But this time, he's without his stops and also has a girlfriend. SandFly and company are still missing and Bamboo isn't yet the all powerful person he is at the end of the DarkTrench saga series.
In this novel, ThreadBare is a teacher of teardrop-enhanced students and Bamboo is his boss. Anti-tech terrorists are increasing their efforts and the Imam has ordered something nasty. And A-Cubed is still at work! Yes, great things are happening!
Family friendly and highly recommended for all sci-fi lovers of cyberpunk and dystopian worlds!
So, DarkTrench revisited!
Well, sort of ...
Yes, it's the world of SandFly and HardCandy! But from a different angle. We're back with ThreadBare and all his misgivings. But this time, he's without his stops and also has a girlfriend. SandFly and company are still missing and Bamboo isn't yet the all powerful person he is at the end of the DarkTrench saga series.
In this novel, ThreadBare is a teacher of teardrop-enhanced students and Bamboo is his boss. Anti-tech terrorists are increasing their efforts and the Imam has ordered something nasty. And A-Cubed is still at work! Yes, great things are happening!
Family friendly and highly recommended for all sci-fi lovers of cyberpunk and dystopian worlds!
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