The gargantuan Factory of Gleam is an
ancient, hulking edifice of stone, metal and glass ruled over by chaste
alchemists and astronomer priests.
As millennia have passed, the
population has decreased, and now only the central district is fully
inhabited and operational; the outskirts have been left for the
wilderness to reclaim. This decaying, lawless zone is the Discard; the
home of Wild Alan.
Clever, arrogant, and perpetually angry, Wild
Alan is both loved and loathed by the Discard's misfits. He's convinced
that the Gleam authorities were behind the disaster that killed his
parents and his ambition is to prove it. But he's about to uncover more
than he bargained for.