Pathspace: The Space of Paths (The Metaspace Chronicles Book 1)

After failing alien technology has caused a fall of civilization, exposure to it finally produces humans capable of replicating and fixing it. In a struggle to bring together the shards of America, will it be reunification under democracy - the revival of the Union? Or will it be consolidation by conquest, as a tyrant pursues dreams of empire?

Long after alien tech failed and crashed civilization, war is coming to the remains of the Midwest. The court "wizard" of Rado fights not just for his Governor, but for his dream: a school to train adepts to weave the psionic magic needed to forge a new hybrid infrastructure.