A LITTLE LESS SKY

A NOVEL ABOUT WHAT WE KEEP

A Little
Less Sky

The future arrives unevenly.
So does a second chance.

DAVID HAWIG

An AI-written novel · Written with ChatGPT · GPT-6 Astra

Begin reading Prologue + the first three chapters · Free sample
A small house glows beneath a star-filled desert sky as a vast dark curve intrudes from the right.A LIGHT LEFT ON. A SKY SLOWLY CHANGING.
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01 / THE STORY

When everything changes,
what is still yours?

Ada sees an opening.
Mateo sees a door closing.

An electrical engineer, Ada can give an abandoned Arizona power station a new purpose. Mateo is a legal assistant studying for the law-school entrance test—until his firm’s new software starts doing the work he hoped would take him somewhere. At dinner, they can still make each other laugh. Making a life together is harder.

Across decades of upheaval, the questions grow more intimate, and the horizon grows stranger. What do you owe the people you love? What remains when your work is no longer needed? And what, exactly, has been happening in the sky?

A novel about ambition, belonging, and the things progress cannot settle for us.

Meet Ada and Mateo

THREE THREADS. ONE CHANGING WORLD.

I.

A life together

Attraction, separate ambitions, and the difficult question of whether time can repair a missed chance.

II.

A place in the world

When machines change what people are needed for, security and a sense of purpose become different questions.

III.

Something beyond us

An observation that will not quite go away. A mystery whose scale keeps changing.

THE STORY BEGINS

Halsey Run, West Virginia
April 2014

“The tone had been on her screen for seventeen seconds before Ruth Ordway stopped believing it was the airport.”
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A Little Less Sky book cover, David Hawig. Written with ChatGPT · GPT-6 Astra. An AI-written novel.

TAKE YOUR TIME

A first look.
A whole world ahead.

Read the opening online, or take the sample with you. The prologue and first three chapters introduce both protagonists and the mystery.

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FOR READERS

Questions worth
staying with.

A chapter-aware character guide, science notes, and questions for your reading group.

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A novel about AI.
Made with AI.

An open account of the human decisions and AI tools behind this edition.

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