Poictesme was once a jewel of the Gartner Trisystem, but the end of the System States War has left it a landscape of salvage and silence. To the elders of Litchfield, the planet is a place of memory; a place to mourn the lost glory of the Federation. To the young, it is a graveyard of dreams, filled with the dust of empty fountains and the rusted hulls of abandoned starships.
When Conn Maxwell returns home, he finds a community obsessed with a phantom: the “Brain,” a legendary positronic super-mind that promises salvation. But as Conn looks upon the decaying beauty of his home, he realizes that the greatest danger isn’t the poverty or the decay; it is the weight of a beautiful lie.
A hauntingly alluring tale of post-war reconstruction and generational conflict, Graveyard of Dreams explores the tension between the comfort of nostalgia and the brutal necessity of progress.