City of Heaven

Book Profile

City of Heaven invites readers into a vivid speculative setting where mystery, destiny, and spiritual truth intersect. The novel uses a striking futuristic mood to point toward questions of meaning, eternity, and the longing for a world made whole.

It is a thoughtful choice for readers who enjoy imaginative fiction with Christian resonance.

Fourteen hundred years after the millennial reign of the King has ended, the world still lives in relative peace and safety but has strayed from the principles that led to humankind's greatest era: the Great Generation. The principal system of faith, Royalism, has degenerated into a politically oriented belief system. In response to the growing threat to their beliefs, factions of the Royalist Social Movement, from the violent to the reformist, seek to restore the principles and former glory of the Great Generation.

High above Terra, connected to the planet by a system of tethers stretching from the surface to sixty-four thousand kilometers in space, the space station City of Heaven is home to more than a million citizens.

Enter the Ar'chay Order, a radical sect of Royalism determined to force the world to bend its knee, with Ar'chaists assuming the Regency. In a single act they sever the tethers, killing nearly all the inhabitants and sending the city on a collision with Terra, where millions more will surely die.

In space and on Terra, survivors battle for control and the polifaith movement reaches a crisis that threatens to unleash a new global faith-cleansing that will rid the world of Royalism once and for all.

Why readers pick up this book

• Fans of Christian speculative fiction
• Readers who enjoy symbolic or visionary storytelling
• Book clubs exploring faith through fiction

At a glance

Categories: Christian Scifi

Author: Tom Terry

Focus: A Christian science-fiction novel of wonder, tension, and spiritual longing.

Key themes

• Hope and eternity
• Speculative imagination
• Spiritual longing
• Future worlds