========================================================================
THE FOURTH VISITOR — PRESS FACT SHEET
The Rift Sequence · Book One · Mattias Hjelmstedt
========================================================================

A fictional reference point. 140 years of real observations. One
unsettling lens.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
THE BOOK
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Title      The Fourth Visitor
Series     The Rift Sequence, Book One
Author     Mattias Hjelmstedt
Genre      Hard science fiction · first contact
Formats    EPUB and PDF, free, direct from the site
Price      Free
Site       https://riftsequence.com

------------------------------------------------------------------------
SYNOPSIS — SHORT
------------------------------------------------------------------------
2027. A fourth interstellar visitor enters the Solar System, and this
one is slowing down.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
SYNOPSIS — LONG
------------------------------------------------------------------------
2027. A fourth interstellar visitor enters the Solar System, and this
one is slowing down.

Five space agencies and one private founder race to reach it. Publicly,
the mission is scientific. Inside closed rooms, every contingency
becomes a tool, every safeguard becomes permission, and every
institution arrives at the same decision in its own language.

They touch it. It falls.

Inside the crater, an international team expects broken cometary
material. What they uncover is engineered, active, and tied to a record
reaching back 140 years: photographs, signals, radar returns, and
astronomical anomalies preserved by people who never knew they belonged
together.

The Fourth Visitor is a large-scale hard science fiction novel about
first contact, institutional certainty, and the decisions that make
humanity dangerous. The scientific papers, datasets, and historical
observations beneath its central lens are real. Read the novel. Then
look them up.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
THE AUTHOR
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mattias Hjelmstedt is a Swedish technology entrepreneur and the author
of The Rift Sequence. He founded ESN, the company behind Battlelog,
which was acquired by Electronic Arts, and went on to build companies
including Voddler, Magine, and Utopia Music across gaming, streaming,
media, and music technology. His career has placed him inside the kinds
of systems The Fourth Visitor examines: high-growth organizations,
data-driven decisions, institutional pressure, and the way individually
rational choices compound at scale. The Fourth Visitor is his first
novel. It grew from years of work across science, technology, and
organizational behavior, and from a conviction that humanity's greatest
strengths are often inseparable from its greatest risks. He lives in
Stockholm.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
THE EVIDENCE PORTAL
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The observations the novel places under one lens are real and published.
12 of them are documented in full at https://riftsequence.com/evidence —
each with the research record and the published objections where they
exist. Every file carries its evidence status; sources are listed with
status labels and linked throughout the record. The complete audited
bibliography is at https://riftsequence.com/sources.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
LINKS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The book            https://riftsequence.com/book
The evidence        https://riftsequence.com/evidence
The bibliography    https://riftsequence.com/sources
How it was built    https://riftsequence.com/how-it-was-built
The series          https://riftsequence.com/sequence

------------------------------------------------------------------------
ASSETS IN THIS KIT
------------------------------------------------------------------------
fact-sheet.txt      Title, synopsis, formats, links and contact — plain text
cover.png           Cover, screen resolution (1024 × 1536)
book-object.png     The book as an object, transparent background (851 × 1320)
file-cards/         The 12 File cards, one per Evidence entry (1200 × 630)

Cover and File-card artwork may be reproduced in coverage of the book.
Figures inside the Evidence portal are either genuine source imagery
with its licence documented, or in-house recreations captioned as such
with the real figure linked — the caption travels with the image.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
CONTACT
------------------------------------------------------------------------
press@riftsequence.com

========================================================================
The Fourth Visitor is a work of fiction. The research, historical
records, and scientific sources presented here are real and linked in
full.
========================================================================
