Cityinspace Stories

Save the world. Then learn to let it go. After a fatal accident, an Englishman wakes in a parallel Earth with a god's apology and a cheat-skill that feels ripped from Space Engineers: fabricate from thought, bend physics, build anything. He becomes "the Engineer," wrapping a ring around the planet to deflect an extinction-level threat and raising the first true city in orbit-Horizon. But the bigger he builds, the louder the universe's auditors grumble. Power used for the world mustn't become power that owns it. From asteroid billiards and jump-ships to broken alien probes and cosmic performance reviews, Mason keeps pushing-then learns to step back. He decentralizes his own miracles into Civic Guilds and a "Sandbox" where kids argue about load-bearing dragons, mentors a successor, and faces a root-level purge that threatens the very layer of reality that watches over worlds. His answer isn't another super-weapon; it's culture, manuals, and systems designed to make himself obsolete. Spanning ground-level hard-SF, orbital wonder, and metaphysical oversight, this is a story about responsibility: how to save a world without freezing it, how to carry godlike tools without becoming a god, and how a good engineer's greatest work is building so others can stand. In the end, the legacy isn't the ring-it's the habit of letting many hands hold it up.