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Rayas Colony Stone
To terraform his future world, Gabe wrings iron from stone – a thousand years before he was born.
Aboard the colony ship, school runs inside the Dream – lived history, ruled by an AI. Gabe chooses to study charcoal kilns in rain-soaked ancient Britain, ore hammered into iron. Someday, a colony's steel depends on colonists like him.
In the Dream's magic system, history's beliefs are true, and they bite. But this year's Maya campaign amounts to gringo-grade tourism: it skips Mexico's most dangerous belief, the were-jaguar. So Gabe and friends rewrite the curriculum.
Gabriel is mama's youngest archangel, the steady one. But shapeshifter magic feeds on the shaman's own darkness – and the Dream has broken older minds than his.
Can Gabe warp his mind into the arcane Maya worldview, plumb his darkest depths, and master the jaguar?
Aboard the colony ship, school runs inside the Dream – lived history, ruled by an AI. Gabe chooses to study charcoal kilns in rain-soaked ancient Britain, ore hammered into iron. Someday, a colony's steel depends on colonists like him.
In the Dream's magic system, history's beliefs are true, and they bite. But this year's Maya campaign amounts to gringo-grade tourism: it skips Mexico's most dangerous belief, the were-jaguar. So Gabe and friends rewrite the curriculum.
Gabriel is mama's youngest archangel, the steady one. But shapeshifter magic feeds on the shaman's own darkness – and the Dream has broken older minds than his.
Can Gabe warp his mind into the arcane Maya worldview, plumb his darkest depths, and master the jaguar?
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Published July 1, 2026
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Ginger Booth
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After 14 years on walkabout to New York, Colorado, Texas and Tokyo, I swam home to spawn in shoreline Connecticut. A recovering computer programmer, I’ve worked in the seismic industry, semiconductor electronics, academic research in biology and environmental science, and online teaching simulators.
I live alone, and enjoy swimming, walking, and crafts. I grow vegetables indoors, until my crops spill outside and down the driveway. I read voraciously, curious about everything, especially how things work.
After 14 years on walkabout to New York, Colorado, Texas and Tokyo, I swam home to spawn in shoreline Connecticut. A recovering computer programmer, I’ve worked in the seismic industry, semiconductor electronics, academic research in biology and environmental science, and online teaching simulators.
I live alone, and enjoy swimming, walking, and crafts. I grow vegetables indoors, until my crops spill outside and down the driveway. I read voraciously, curious about everything, especially how things work.
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February 17, 2025
It’s absolutely criminal that Ginger Booth’s books are not better known.
She has created multiple series that follow humanity’s destruction of Earth then our attempts to escape to and rebuild civilization on other planets. I first encountered her Thrive series, which follows the descendants of a colony on the moon Mahina. Booth weaves storylines through multiple series, with some overlap in characters.
This series, in LitRPG style, follows teens chosen for an expedition to the planet Rayas. During the 25 year journey, Gabe and his friends exist in a virtual world while their physical bodies are held in stasis. The “game” teaches them valuable lessons they will need to terraform and colonize their new planet. In addition to virtual classroom learning, the voyagers learn history firsthand by fighting—and sometimes “dying”—while pursuing quests in various times in Earth’s history. In this book, the teens explore Mayan culture near its end, setting a quest for themselves to discover the magic of were-jaguars and learn how civilizations fail. Gabe continues to learn about his strengths and weaknesses and about who he wants to become.
As with all her series, Booth creates engrossing adventures that feature great characters. Her stories are driven by complex characters, their growth, and their interactions with each other. In her Thrive series, I grew very attached to her characters and was compelled to find out what happened next with them. This series features younger characters in their teens, but with the weight of humanity’s future on their heads, they have to mature quickly.
I haven’t yet read Booth’s Calm Act post-apocalyptic stories set on Earth, though I plan to remedy that soon. You can start reading at the beginning of either her Earth-based or her space-based Thrive series, but wherever you start, you’ll get hooked.
She has created multiple series that follow humanity’s destruction of Earth then our attempts to escape to and rebuild civilization on other planets. I first encountered her Thrive series, which follows the descendants of a colony on the moon Mahina. Booth weaves storylines through multiple series, with some overlap in characters.
This series, in LitRPG style, follows teens chosen for an expedition to the planet Rayas. During the 25 year journey, Gabe and his friends exist in a virtual world while their physical bodies are held in stasis. The “game” teaches them valuable lessons they will need to terraform and colonize their new planet. In addition to virtual classroom learning, the voyagers learn history firsthand by fighting—and sometimes “dying”—while pursuing quests in various times in Earth’s history. In this book, the teens explore Mayan culture near its end, setting a quest for themselves to discover the magic of were-jaguars and learn how civilizations fail. Gabe continues to learn about his strengths and weaknesses and about who he wants to become.
As with all her series, Booth creates engrossing adventures that feature great characters. Her stories are driven by complex characters, their growth, and their interactions with each other. In her Thrive series, I grew very attached to her characters and was compelled to find out what happened next with them. This series features younger characters in their teens, but with the weight of humanity’s future on their heads, they have to mature quickly.
I haven’t yet read Booth’s Calm Act post-apocalyptic stories set on Earth, though I plan to remedy that soon. You can start reading at the beginning of either her Earth-based or her space-based Thrive series, but wherever you start, you’ll get hooked.
March 30, 2025
The story continues...
Following Gabe in his trip to Rayas, he continues to grow and learn. What's next for him in Shakespeare? Looking forward to finding out.
Following Gabe in his trip to Rayas, he continues to grow and learn. What's next for him in Shakespeare? Looking forward to finding out.
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