introducing the glassborn chronicles

Glass Sleeps in the Dust

They fled a dying Earth to build a better world on Mars. But the Red Planet brought more than dust and radiation – it brought Glass, a deadly illness that mutates across generations. As the sickness spreads and the isolated colony struggles to survive under the watchful eye of an all-controlling AI, one truth becomes clear: the real danger isn’t the disease. It’s the system built to survive it.

Reading Order

Read the books in chronological order shown below – each story builds the legacy of resistance on Mars – or start with Glassborn, the official book one and a perfect entry point if you prefer to begin with a full-length novel.

Book cover for Exodus by KN Tristan. The cover features a minimalist design in red, black and beige tones. At the top, the title “EXODUS” appears in large white letters with the tagline “Every Lie Costs Oxygen” beneath it, followed by the line “Propulsive Dystopian Prequel to Glassborn.” The lower half depicts a stylized space shuttle launching from a cracked red landscape beneath a black sky and crescent moon, capturing a retro sci-fi aesthetic and sense of tension.

Book 0.5, a 40-page prequel

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A book cover in red and black featuring a Martian landscape with a domed habitat with a crack running down the center and two silhouettes looking helplessly out from it

Glassborn Chronicles Book 1

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Book cover for Children of Glass by KN Tristan. The cover features a minimalist design in red, black, and beige tones. At the top, the title “CHILDREN OF GLASS” appears in large white letters with the tagline “Comfort Belongs to the Worthy” beneath it, introduced by the line “A Chilling Dystopian Novella.” The lower half depicts a beige silhouette of a rabbit with deep glass-like cracks spreading across its back, set against a red landscape under a black sky with two pale moons.

Book 1.5, a 172-page prequel

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Book cover for “Unworthy” by KN Tristan in a retro propaganda poster style. The design features a stylized close-up of a woman’s face in tan and black, with bold red and teal accents. Her eye is centered in the frame, the iris rendered in teal with a fractured, glass-like pattern. The tagline above reads “Every eye reports to Valence,” with “A Haunting Dystopian Novel” beneath it.

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This series is for you if you dig...

  • Near-future dystopias
  • A resistance that eats the rich
  • Snarky dark humor
  • Life on the Red Planet
  • Bunnies in space
  • Queer representation

Wool meets The Hunger Games in this multi-generational saga of survival, human ingenuity and resilience.

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