Utopia on Earth had been realized. With the Gates in operation, megafarms, refineries, and heavy, polluting industry had all been exported to other worlds. The wealth imported provided prosperity for everyone. But one of those worlds went renegade; a small band of settlers wrested control of Ozymandias from the guild, and turned what would have been another industrial wasteland into an idyllic frontier paradise. The price was exile; the Gates to Earth slammed shut forever. But more than a century later a lone visitor arrives. His trip was clandestine; unauthorized by the guild. He tells a tale of Earth in trouble; Gates beginning to fail, with no one knowing how to keep them running. Ozymandias has the knowledge so desperately needed, but fears that Earth will try to take it by force. Light years from home, Stephan Anson must bridge the chasm between two worlds after more than a century of isolation. For if he fails, both will slowly slip into ruin. The Gates of Ozymandias is a sequel to The Sixth World, published in 2019