R. H. Daily
The Last Cradle cover: a vast dark tower with a cold-lit atrium under a storm sky

Book Three of The Cradle Archives

The Last Cradle

A Novel of Corporate Succession

The vampire's estate is settled.Someone has filed a claim.

The fight Book Two left burning has an ending, and the ending is a proceeding. In one of the last cities on Earth, the question of who inherits the machinery that once kept its founder alive will not be decided by force. It will be decided the way everything in Endymion is decided: on the record, under oath, with exhibits.

Mira Venn has spent her life proving what the records did. Now she must prove what they must never be allowed to do again, in a tribunal where the opposing party never appears, never lies, and files everything on time.

Told entirely in documents: depositions, tribunal transcripts, machine registries, and the compiler's notes of the woman assembling the city's last case. The concluding volume of The Cradle Archives.

Book Three concludes the archive.

Documentary science fiction · told entirely in documents

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Title
The Last Cradle
Subtitle
A Novel of Corporate Succession
Author
R. H. Daily
Genre
documentary science fiction
Formats
Kindle ebook and Paperback and Hardcover

For readers who like

  • documentary science fiction
  • corporate dystopia
  • epistolary novels told in documents
  • vampire novels without romance
  • archives and records conspiracies
Content note

Adult. No sexual content, no graphic violence.

THE RECORD DOES NOT STRIKE.

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