Jason Thomson

Science Fiction · Sci-Fi Thriller · Space Opera

Jason Thomson

Jason Thomson writes cinematic science fiction thrillers filled with high-stakes discovery, ancient mysteries, interstellar conflict, and the human cost of impossible choices. His stories blend fast-paced adventure with emotional depth, exploring courage, sacrifice, and survival at the edge of the unknown.

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The Forgotten Meridian

Science Fiction

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.

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The Gravity Archive

Science Fiction

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.

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The Last Fixed Star

Science Fiction

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.

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The Silent Armada

Science Fiction

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.

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Future Casualties

Science Fiction

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?

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The Impossible Distance

Science Fiction

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.

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The Forgotten Man

Science Fiction

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.

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Book 1 of 3 · The Arrival Window Trilogy

Signal Discipline

Science Fiction

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?

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Book 2 of 3 · The Arrival Window Trilogy

Open Channel

Science Fiction

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.

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Book 3 of 3 · The Arrival Window Trilogy

The Inward Sun

Science Fiction

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.

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The Overwritten

Science Fiction

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.

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Book 1 of 3 · The Far Quorum Trilogy

The Convening

Science Fiction

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.

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Book 2 of 3 · The Far Quorum Trilogy

The Seconding

Science Fiction

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.

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Book 3 of 3 · The Far Quorum Trilogy

The Motion Carried

Science Fiction

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.

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The Last Signal

Science Fiction

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.

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The Half-Life Front

Science Fiction

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.

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Death Aboard the Calyx

Science Fiction

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.

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Book 1 of 3 · The Abandoned Hours Trilogy

The Erased Hour

Science Fiction

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.

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Book 2 of 3 · The Abandoned Hours Trilogy

Permitted Victories

Science Fiction

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.

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Book 3 of 3 · The Abandoned Hours Trilogy

Borrowed Futures

Science Fiction

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.

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The Quiet Fathom

Science Fiction

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.

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The Ship That Answered Back

Science Fiction

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.

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The Standing Order

Science Fiction

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.

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The Vega Testimony

Science Fiction

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.

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The Door Opened

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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Book 1 of 3 · Time Fold Trilogy

The Threshold Fold

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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Book 2 of 3 · Time Fold Trilogy

The Causal Chain

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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Book 3 of 3 · Time Fold Trilogy

The Closed Loop

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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Returned Unharmed

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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The Borrowed Lifetime Protocol

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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Book 1 of 3 · Ember Fleets Trilogy

Ember Rising

Science Fiction

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.

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Book 2 of 3 · Ember Fleets Trilogy

Ember War

Science Fiction

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.

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Book 3 of 3 · Ember Fleets Trilogy

Ember Eternal

Science Fiction

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?

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The Calloway Deception

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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The Last Bride of Earth

Science Fiction

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.

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The Iron Covenant

Science Fiction

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.

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Variance Protocol

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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Corridor War

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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Ghost Protocol

Sci-Fi Thriller

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?

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Silent Directive

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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Book 1 of 3 · Obsidian Trilogy

The Consent Door

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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Book 2 of 3 · Obsidian Trilogy

The Enforcement Line

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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Book 3 of 3 · Obsidian Trilogy

The Final Refusal

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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Book 2 of 3 · Timeloop Trilogy

Before The Severance

Sci-Fi Romance

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.

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Book 3 of 3 · Timeloop Trilogy

The Last Door

Sci-Fi Romance

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.

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The Living Ruins

Science Fiction

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.

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The Anchor Point

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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The Boyfriend From The Deleted Year

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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The Happiness Algorithm

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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Shattered Continuum

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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Blackout Protocol

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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The Room The World Forgot

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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The Time Siege

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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A Fracture In Time

Sci-Fi Thriller

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.