Once upon a time, a few hundred years from now, Sheyhan, a petty street hustler, and Old Helga, a woman just trying to get by after decades of trouble, have to find a solution to an terrifying problem together, gathering friends and fellow outsiders to do something so huge that even they wonder if it can be done.
Set in a world of sprawling, illegal markets and societies of street urchins. Of elegant, serene, temple complexes and grungy, rambunctious spaceports. Where your atmo suit is repaired by the neighborhood tailor and there's always a seat at the tea house where the spacers come to gossip.
A Boy Alone is the story of them working their way through some of the darker, more shadowy parts of a richly imagined world. A glimpse into a sprawling future empire of hundreds of solar systems and treasured moments of small pleasures.