Light Years Apart

Can you and your sister outfox a galaxy-spanning AI to save your home planet? A rollicking adventure with space pirates, spies, and snarky computers.

``Light Years Apart`` is a 230,000-word interactive sci-fi novel by Anaea Lay, where your choices control the story. It`s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

You trained at the Kempari College, an academy for super spies, fighting against the Aydan-machine interplanetary AI. Aydan-machine and its affiliated megacorp, the ICA, have monopolized control over FTL weft-drives.

You resigned from the College when your teachers ordered you to commit murder. Since then, you`ve wandered the galaxy for a decade, so long that your shipboard computer has become your surrogate parent.

But now, the ICA has blockaded Kempus, and you`re in a unique position to prevent thousands of unnecessary deaths. Will you ally with the enemy, or return to the rebels who once betrayed you?

What`s more, your hacker sister has brought your old flame back into your orbit, and the love you left behind is now mission-critical. As a former spy, you have flexible morals, but there are certain lines you won`t cross. The blockade is real, and it`s killing kids.

When your planet needs you, will you step up or storm off?

• Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, bi, poly or asexual.
• Unleash artful and infinite swearing.
• Swap stories and strategies with your secret agent peers.
• Drink yourself silly on extraterrestrial moonshine!
• Team up with space pirates!
• Watch a planet breed with its moon.
• Smuggle two weird teenagers past an interplanetary blockade.