Two colony ships vanished into a broken portal network. Two hundred years later, survivors are finding their way to Earth—but it isn't the Earth they left behind.
Now escape capsules from Solis are falling into the forests. One hangs fifteen metres above the ground with a badly injured passenger inside, black creatures climbing toward the hatch, and two rescuers running short of time and ammunition. Dit has survived the landing. Getting her down will take a rope, a shotgun, and Whizz's willingness to climb into something that is already coming apart.
Above them, the rift is growing brighter. The capsules are only the beginning.
As larger wreckage comes through, the rescue of scattered survivors becomes a catastrophe across the northern hemisphere. Cities are shattered, waves strike the coast, and communications fail while people are still trying to find out who made it through. Rescuers return to ruined buildings. Strangers carry one another toward shelter. Somewhere between the gunfire, the injuries and the arguments over who is carrying whom, people begin to have someone they cannot leave behind.
Broken Rift: From Heaven to Hell, with Lizards opens a new route into the Broken Rift universe: a science-fiction disaster adventure with armed rescues, hostile creatures, foul-mouthed survivors, and room for laughter and affection even when the next safe place may not stay safe for long.
Start with Episode One. Ren and Whizz have found the capsule, someone inside is very much alive, and something outside has noticed her too. The complete opening rescue is here; the wider disaster is coming.
Written by Mariz Shandalyan. Published by Blue Rift Productions. English-language, single-narrator fiction. Episode One runs approximately 32 minutes and includes strong language, violence and injury.