About the book: 2022 / World9 is a deadly planet covered with poisonous sands. To survive here, people perfected their mechanical arts, turning everything around into a kingdom of machines and rust. Here, huge ships, intelligent and predatory, roam the deserts, and a terrible disease turns human flesh into metal. In this world lives Naila, the captain of an old whaling ship named Sirakk, now a cargo ship. Nyla follows the tracks of humpback whales that live in the sands, she is looking for the Great Wave, an incredible physical phenomenon that no one has ever seen, and whoever has seen it will not tell anything. For some, this is just a legend. For some it's a superstition. For some, a real danger. For Nyla, this is the only goal in life, the opportunity to return peace to Mir9 and give it a future, because there is a legend that the Great Wave can be controlled.