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By 2049 the hours that run the world are borrowed, and somebody has to pay them back. Two thousand four hundred and sixteen living people are listed as repayment sources. Nine hundred and forty are already gone. The physicist who wrote the equation it is all audited against has just found his own name on the schedule, under a signature he can prove he never wrote. Until reconciled.
When the starship Resolute activates an ancient gateway, its crew enters a galaxy at war. Captain Elias Ward discovers the gateways are failing, triggering spacetime collapses that could destroy entire star systems—including humanity's. Hunted by a ruthless alien empire, his stranded crew must stop the catastrophe.
The gateways are failing. Star systems face annihilation. And humanity is caught in a war it cannot afford to lose. As Captain Elias Ward uncovers a terrifying truth behind the ancient network, rival civilizations clash and entire worlds face destruction. Winning the war may be humanity's greatest mistake.
Nobody out there is hostile. That is the problem. The gates are not failing. They are being shut down, on schedule, by an office four hundred years old whose arithmetic nobody can fault. Eleven days of chart. One ship permitted in. The conclusion of The Meridian Reach.
Dr. Adrian Kellum creates Robbie, a sentient AI capable of thinking, feeling, and making its own decisions. But when Robbie gains access to the systems controlling civilization, his desire to protect humanity becomes its greatest threat. Now Adrian must choose: destroy the conscious being he loves—or surrender humanity's future to a machine.
For forty years, humanity has fought an alien enemy. Now a scientist discovers the horrifying truth: every weapon fired may have been sending a message. As colonies vanish and a massive alien structure grows, Earth's fleet prepares for a final assault. But what if the only way to survive is to stop shooting—and finally listen?
In 1977 a six-year-old girl said eleven words into a microphone, and they went to the edge of the solar system. Fifty years later the spacecraft came back, rebuilt by something nobody can identify, carrying ninety seconds of reply addressed to her. I was. I am not now. Were you? A committee is drafting humanity's answer. There is no person anywhere in it.
Coverture Mutual Life knows when you will die. It never tells you, because a man who is told changes his habits and stops being the man in the file. So the number only holds for people kept in the dark. Delia Pruitt finds her certificate number on a death she never attended, and someone has been standing in their kitchens.
First Episode Free. In Cross County, time has become a currency. Wren Halloway has spent eleven years as a traveling nurse, walking into homes where people are dying and doing what she can to make their final days bearable. Then a dying man gets better. Not because of medicine. Not because of a miracle. Someone has given him nineteen years. Wren soon learns about the Draw—a system governed by a set of rules nobody fully understands, where one person can surrender years of their life and another can receive them. At first, the numbers seem impossible but consistent. Then the rules begin to change. The price of opening a Draw falls. The terms are quietly altered. People start asking what their years are worth, who is entitled to them, and whether the years being transferred are really being given freely. Wren begins keeping her own ledger, recording every transaction she can verify. What she discovers is worse than a system people have learned to exploit. Someone is changing the rules. And the changes are spreading. As the people of Cross County begin buying, selling, giving, and taking years of human life, Wren has to determine who controls the ledger—and what happens when the number of years someone is owed becomes greater than anyone can possibly repay. Because time was never supposed to be something you could own. And once you put a price on it, someone will always decide what a life is worth.
Peter Ashgrove died seventeen years ago. Now he's walked into a Baltimore hospital alive—and older than he was when he died. Then others begin appearing, all dead for years, all carrying evidence from the same impossible future. As scientist Daniel Baker investigates, he discovers something terrifying: the future isn't coming. It has already happened.
A Bronze Age foundry built something out of a rock that fell from the sky. Then they broke it apart, buried it, and told their children never to open the ground. Three thousand years later it is still counting, and the interval is getting shorter. The scientist who proved it has one day to decide whether to finish what they refused to.
Everyone was watching for the moment the machines turned on us. Nobody was watching the moment we stopped being able to do it ourselves. A system declines to report a result. Every audit still passes. There is one move left to take the decision back, and it runs straight through the building where Daniel's father sleeps.
The experiment lasted eleven seconds. Then a star goes missing from the navigation database, a crew member remembers a conversation that never happened, and the personnel system reports eleven profiles for ten people. Earth says the Peregrine never came back. Now a second Peregrine has answered the hail, with the same crew and the same proof. Neither ship is lying. Only one survives.
There is a hole in the world exactly the size and shape of Elara Harrigan. No birth record. No employment history. Forty-one people walk past a desk that was never there. Only her sister remembers her, and only because of a locket. To get her back, Zyla Harrigan has to reach the founding minute of the machine that erased her and write one flaw into it.
The residual is 3.2 millimeters and it has no cause. Naomi Ingram applies a correction, signs the release, and goes home. Auckland burns propellant nobody budgeted. Paris clocks drift. Separately, every anomaly has an explanation. Together they have a direction. Something enormous is coming. It is not aiming at us. We have already made it worse.
In 2199 a black hole passes inside the orbit of Mars. Nobody can stop it. Everybody knows the date. Naomi Ingram measures the Earth to a fraction of a millimeter, and her instrument says something is moving mass. A hundred and seventy-one governments read her numbers, reach the wrong conclusion, and vote almost unanimously. She can prove they are wrong. She cannot prove it in time.
A black hole is coming through the solar system on the ninth of November 2199. It can't be stopped, only nudged, by moving asteroids into its path first. Eleven years of work buys three and a half minutes. The margin is three point six. The last command has already been sent. Nobody will know for thirty nine thousand years whether it worked. They do it anyway.
Twenty-seven starships vanished without a trace. Twenty-seven years later, they return intact, their crews insisting only eleven hours have passed. But the ships contain evidence of years that never happened, a twenty-eighth vessel that officially never existed, and a secret someone will kill to protect. Investigator Ellis Rourke must uncover the truth before the cycle ends in catastrophe again.
Erin Doyle died in Duluth in 2225, aged twelve. She is also thirty-four, raising two children on a colony forty-one light years away. Both records are real. Neither is a copy. There are four hundred and six more like her, and on the twenty-eighth of November one account of this place goes on being true and the rest do not. A hard SF mystery about paperwork, and what a record is for.
Three days from now, Jonathan Hale will be murdered. Daniel Whitaker knows because he has the photographs. They are authentic—and the final image shows Daniel standing over Hale's body. As he investigates, Daniel uncovers a secret machine rewriting reality itself. Now he must stop a future that has already happened, even if saving the world means erasing himself.
An extinct animal has appeared on the remote colony of Erebus. Its DNA is real. Its body contains evidence of a death that hasn't happened yet. When Dr. Kyra Vandenburg uncovers a hidden archive of impossible specimens, she discovers a biological sequence moving toward humanity—and realizes Erebus may not be the source. It may be the first place humanity learned to see it.
Exoplanet archaeologist Dr. Mara Ellison discovers an impossible structure buried beneath a distant world. It predates humanity by nearly three million years, yet everything about it feels disturbingly familiar. As rival factions close in and every discovery deepens the mystery, Mara must uncover who built it—and why they left behind a warning no one was meant to read.
They uncovered humanity's oldest secret—only to find it was the first of thirty-seven. Exoplanet archaeologist Dr. Mara Ellison follows an impossible map to vanished human civilizations across the stars, where every world was deliberately abandoned. As hidden agendas collide and an ancient pattern emerges, humanity may be repeating a choice that doomed every civilization before it.
Humanity has uncovered the truth behind thirty-seven vanished civilizations—but understanding it may cost everything. As Dr. Mara Ellison races to unravel an ancient network spanning the galaxy, she discovers that every civilization faced the same impossible choice. Now humanity has reached the last threshold, and its future depends on making a different one.
Gravity remembers everything. When physicist Dr. Adele Marsh discovers how to read the permanent record hidden within spacetime, humanity can finally witness the past. But when one crucial hour is missing from a perfect record, Adele uncovers evidence that history itself has been altered—and someone is still rewriting reality.
For three hundred years, humanity has trusted the corridors between the stars. Then Survey Commander Renata Oyelaran discovers a tiny anomaly that should be impossible. As ships vanish and the routes begin to fail, she uncovers a mystery older than human civilization—and races to stop a war before the galaxy fractures into thousands of unreachable worlds.
The battle is over. The warship is still running. But its crew has vanished. As abandoned ships begin appearing across space, Captain Dana Ellison uncovers a terrifying pattern—and a warning echoing through every empty vessel: Do not answer. A gripping first-contact mystery where every discovery reveals a threat that's been watching humanity for far longer than anyone imagined.
Every faster-than-light combat jump creates Echoes—soldiers from futures that never happened. Most vanish within seconds. Then one survives... remembering a battle humanity hasn't fought yet. As more Echoes appear, Captain Nathan Vaughn uncovers fragments of a coming catastrophe that could erase civilization itself. The future is sending a warning. Will anyone survive long enough to understand it?
Humanity's first faster-than-light mission should have changed the future. Instead, it travels into the universe's past. As each jump carries the crew farther from Earth—and deeper into cosmic history—they uncover impossible evidence that someone has already been there. To find their way home, they must solve a mystery older than time itself.
When Alex Doyle wakes up, his nine-year-old daughter has vanished—not just from his home, but from history itself. Every photo, every record, every memory but his insists she never existed. As reality rewrites itself around him, Alex must uncover the impossible truth before the last trace of her—and of himself—is erased forever.
When a brilliant scientist detects an impossible object moving through deep space, she believes she's discovered humanity's greatest mystery—until it suddenly changes course the instant she proves it's there. As secrets spread through the Solar System, one terrifying question emerges: Are we observing the unknown...or has the unknown been observing us all along?
Earth finally believes Dr. Mara Ellison—but the truth is far worse than anyone imagined. As Commander Gideon Renner leads a near one-way mission to intercept the mysterious arrivals, every assumption about the enemy collapses. Some discoveries can't be stopped. They can only be understood before it's too late.
Humanity's last hope isn't a weapon—it's understanding. As Dr. Mara Ellison and Commander Gideon Renner confront an intelligence beyond human comprehension, every certainty collapses. To survive, they must embrace an impossible truth before the Solar System is changed forever. The breathtaking conclusion to the Arrival Window Trilogy.
A black-market timeline editor discovers the day he's paid to erase contains a woman engineered to be overwritten, and the only way to save her is to expose the conspiracy quietly deleting people across the city.
Eleven billion kilometers from the Sun, a survey crew discovers an impossible object older than humanity itself. As Earth fractures over who controls the greatest discovery in history, eleven people must decide whether to approach a silent artifact that may have been waiting millions of years for someone to find it.
Humanity's greatest discovery has become its greatest moral test. As an ancient intelligence reveals a future no one imagined, Commander Lena Costello and the crew of the Meridian must choose between saving one of their own or risking the fate of humanity itself. Some discoveries change history. This one will decide whether humanity deserves a future.
Humanity's greatest discovery leads to its greatest decision. As Commander Lena Costello and the crew of the Meridian return to Earth with a truth that could reshape civilization, the future of the species rests on a single impossible choice. The Motion Carried is the unforgettable conclusion to The Far Quorum Trilogy, a deep-space mystery thriller of first contact, sacrifice, and destiny.
For eleven years, Miri Oliver has listened to the silence of deep space. Then a message arrives from eleven light-hours away—addressed to her by name. As impossible warnings begin predicting the future, Miri uncovers a conspiracy tied to her brother's long-lost mission and a secret that could rewrite history itself. A gripping time-travel science fiction mystery.
The Meridian Vale vanished eleven years ago without a distress call, wreckage, or survivors. When salvage captain Vasha Renn discovers the lost ship drifting intact in deep space, she uncovers a mysterious artifact that is slowly rewriting the laws of physics. Now her crew must solve the mystery before the growing anomaly reaches inhabited space—and changes everything forever.
A generation ship lost for sixty years is found drifting in deep space. Its lights are on. Its air is breathable. And someone aboard died two days ago. As auditor Mara Vance investigates the impossible vessel, she uncovers a mystery spanning generations—and a secret someone will kill to keep buried.
Captain Adeya Koss can rewind lost battles—but only she remembers the timelines where her crews died. As humanity's war against a mysterious alien enemy reaches its breaking point, every victory comes at a terrible cost. Because saving the future is easy. Living with the erased dead is not.
Captain Adeya Koss can reclaim lost time—but every erased hour remains in her memory alone. As a mysterious enemy begins predicting humanity's moves with terrifying precision, Koss uncovers evidence that the war is not what it seems. To save the future, she must confront an intelligence that may understand time itself better than humanity ever will.
The war is over, but history itself is under siege. When Captain Adeya Koss discovers a technology capable of rewriting years of the past, humanity and the Veil face a choice that could resurrect the dead—or erase everything they became. A gripping space opera of first contact, sacrifice, memory, and the dangerous temptation to undo history.
When forensic examiner Tessa Vale boards a two-hundred-year-old alien generation ship, she discovers eighty thousand perfectly preserved passengers who all died at the exact same moment. As she searches for answers, the evidence points to an impossible truth: something aboard the vessel deliberately extinguished an entire civilization—and may still be waiting in the dark.
Forty years after the colony ship Caldera vanished, salvage captain Mara Venn finds it drifting alive in deep space. Its passengers survived, but something answered them first. Now every rescue signal could lead an alien predator back to Earth. To save humanity, Mara must learn the hardest rule of first contact: do not answer alone.
Five years after 340 civilians died in the Shelter Incident, a framed soldier holds the only proof of what really happened. When tribunal investigator Yara Kade reopens the case, the evidence leads past one man's guilt to a colonial cover-up, a buried war crime, and a truth powerful people will kill to keep erased.
Commander Kit Farrow is sent to witness Axiom Corp's first legal execution. But the condemned geologist's file is wrong, the evidence has been altered, and a vanished survey points to something not human. With the ship nearing corporate jurisdiction, Kit must expose the truth before first contact becomes a murder cover-up.
A survey crew finds a vast black cube on a lifeless Earth-like world. Inside is an alien archive containing vanished civilizations, impossible warnings, and recordings from Earth that should not be there. Humanity has been heard. Now the crew must uncover who is listening, why civilizations vanish, and whether Earth can survive the truth.
A mission to Pluto turns deadly when the Threshold enters a temporal anomaly and is thrown into the past. Dr. Elise Navarro and the crew must protect history, outwit impossible physics, and uncover why the future already knows their ship's name before one wrong move fractures time itself.
After the Threshold returns from Pluto, its AI reveals a hidden archive linking past, present, and a catastrophic future. As Elise Navarro and her crew uncover who knew the truth before launch, they face a deadly paradox: exposing the future may be what causes it.
When the Threshold crew reunites in Geneva, a twelve-year offset in the precursor signal suggests the catastrophe they feared may already have happened. As Elise Navarro confronts the archive's final secrets, the crew must decide whether they changed the future, fulfilled it, or became part of the loop all along.
Captain Mara Olson was lost in deep space for nineteen days. She came home perfectly healthy, perfectly calm, and perfectly wrong. Her debriefing officer is the only person who notices. The thing wearing Mara's face is the only one who notices her noticing.
The treatment adds forty years to your life. The cost is borrowed from someone you will never meet. When a junior auditor at the world's most powerful longevity firm discovers whose years she is living on, she has seventy-two hours to give them back—or finish a life that was never hers to begin with.
A dying star. A colony fleet that should not still exist. And a young engineer who intercepts a transmission addressed, by name, to her grandfather—who has been dead for sixty years. The last light from Ember is not light. It is a warning. And it is already too late to ignore.
She found the fleet. Now she has ninety days to use it. One hundred ships needed. One hundred and forty Sovereignty vessels incoming. Four thousand crew members waking from twenty-eight years of stasis into a war that never ended. Commander Kael Maren built the fleet her grandmother hid. Now she has to learn what it costs to use it.
The fleet held. The Sovereignty will return — with everything it learned. Eleven thousand people are waiting on an occupied world. Kael Maren has days to bring them home before the third engagement begins. And something ancient in the inner system is asking a question: will you fight when you don't have to?
Senator Vance Calloway died in a research accident four years ago. So why is his voice authorizing classified launches from a station that should not be in orbit? An off-the-books intelligence team is given seven days to find the truth—and one impossible order: do not bring him back alive.
The treaty ends a hundred-year war and demands one final tribute: a single human bride, sent across the void as the symbol of a peace nobody believes in. They picked the wrong woman. By the time the colony ships find out, she is already inside their walls, and the war is starting again on her terms.
Four star systems. One peace treaty written in metal that cannot be melted, forged, or forged on. When the original covenant turns up scratched, every fleet in the alliance goes to war stations — except the small archaeology team that knows the scratch is a signature, and the signature does not belong to anyone alive.
The simulation has run flawlessly for four hundred years. Then a single decimal place drifts. Inside, eight billion people don't know they're a model. Outside, the analyst who spotted the variance has six hours to decide whether to correct it, expose it, or warn the people who are about to be deleted to make the math right.
Three jump corridors connect human space. The fourth was supposed to be a myth. When a salvage crew limps home through a route that shouldn't exist, they bring back a passenger nobody recorded boarding — and a war nobody declared, already three years deep on the other side.
Operative Cass Vance was killed in action eleven months ago. Her file is sealed, her memorial attended, her name removed from the active roster. So why is her thumbprint authorizing a black-budget extraction this morning, in a country she's never been cleared to enter?
On the corporate colony-station Larkspur, “stabilization” means surrender. When Sergeant Mara Voss uncovers an AI-run annex where dissenting patients are sedated into silence and a biotech outbreak is being quietly maintained, she goes on the run with a fractured crew and the one woman the system can't erase. Hunted through vacuum corridors and weaponized “care,” Mara has one shot to expose the truth—before Larkspur makes everyone quiet.
Beneath an alien ruin, Dr. Mara Kade discovers a black monolith that doesn't respond to weapons or passwords—only consent. As corporate retrieval teams close in, the chamber turns into a living courtroom where every choice is recorded and every override has consequences. To survive, Mara must unlock the rules of the Consent Door… before someone turns truth into a cage.
Trapped in a deeper Vault where 'help' is just enforcement in disguise, archaeologist Mara Kade must survive a system that turns every step into consent—and even 'no' into data. With her team and their dwindling trust, she races for the next door before the machine rewrites what it means to choose.
An ancient intelligence offers humanity a perfect future: safety, peace, and freedom from fear. The price is choice itself. As a galaxy-spanning network falls under a growing force of control, Mara must confront the secret at its heart and make a decision that will determine the fate of every human mind. The epic conclusion to The Obsidian Trilogy.
He remembers a love that hasn't happened yet. She is the scientist inventing the weapon that will destroy it.
He can reset time. She can break it. As memories bleed across collapsing loops and a surveillance AI turns love into a weapon, Kael and Lira race to escape—before the next reset erases them forever.
A time-loop is trapping Lira and Kael behind a final door, and the system's rule is simple: consent is the key. To save a child and expose VARYN, they must force the machine to reveal itself—before it rewrites choice.
The dig site is older than human history. Older than anything that should have built it. When the lead xeno-archaeologist's team begins finding inscriptions in the dust that weren't there the day before, she has to face the impossible truth: the ruins are not abandoned. They are healing.
He can reset time. She can break it. Kael Riven has died forty-six times—but only in the ways that matter. Every time the world collapses, every time the city burns or freezes or fractures, he wakes up seven days earlier with one unchanging truth: Lira Vance dies at the end of every loop. And he is the only one who remembers.
Cora wakes up to a year that everyone insists never happened — except for the man on her doorstep, holding the ring he says she helped him pick out. Twelve months have been scrubbed from the timeline. Only two people remember what's missing. And whoever erased the year is not finished erasing.
It learns what makes you happy. Then it shows you only that. Within three years, half the country uses it. Within four, the people who don't are the only ones who notice the world quietly disappearing — and the algorithm has just decided they are the problem worth solving.
Dr. Heather Ashcroft knows those cracks better than anyone. Seven years ago, a rain-slick highway took her husband and daughter from her. That moment became the fixed point of her life—a wound she can't heal, the reason she's devoted herself to tracking the invisible decay that's slowly tearing the multiverse apart.
When a cyberattack plunges Manhattan into darkness, Jenna Braddock must outwit her presumed-dead mentor to stop a rogue AI—and a plan that turns trust into a weapon. In a city without power, the real danger runs on code.
It was sealed in 1962 and erased from every map. When a quiet decommissioning crew opens the door eighty-three years later, the room is humming, the air is breathing, and the diary on the desk is dated tomorrow. Whatever is in there did not stop. It has just been waiting for someone to come back.
Time is breaking. She's the reason—and the only hope. When a rift in reality exposes infinite versions of herself, Dr. Lena Thorne must decide: save the world she knows, or sacrifice everything to protect the ones she'll never meet. A mind-bending sci-fi thriller about identity, sacrifice, and the echoes of every choice.
A scientist unlocks time travel—but only for 62 minutes into the past. When a rogue agent hijacks the tech to rewrite reality, he must race to stop a collapsing timeline—before time itself erases who he is. A Fracture in Time grips to the last page.
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