Floating islands, steam-powered airplanes and zeppelins, a mysterious ancient entity, affecting minds, a spaceship in orbit. It all converges on a world called Azoria. This volume tells four stories about the world and its dwellers. Resonance of Silence Con artist Davin Teller crashes into a society devoted to perfect silence with no use for his skills and schemes. A wry short story about adaptation, reinvention, and finding your voice in the most unlikely places. The Plan of Darkness Miner Malik Dunn starts hearing whispers and voices after finding a blue vein. It spreads from his fingers to his thoughts as he climbs toward influence he never imagined and loneliness he never wanted. Reader of the Wind Kora Skyheart leaves the Heights and the love of her life to become a renowned scientist in the Caligan Technocracy. A poignant tale of first love, hard choices, and second chances. Rational Element Marketing executive Theon Reeves sells thousands on a dream of simpler life among Azoria's floating islands-only to discover that building paradise requires choices that will haunt him for decades."