Cover of The Approach
Book 1 of 3 · The Black Hole Trilogy

Science Fiction · September 2026

The Approach

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.

  • hard-sci-fi
  • first-contact
  • mystery