The Rift Sequence

Five books

The Rift Sequence

One sequence, planned as five books. What is finished is published in full and free; what is not finished is not described.

The Fourth Visitor — cover

Book One · Out now

The Fourth Visitor

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

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Book Two · In preparation

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Humanity has recovered a machine it cannot build and does not understand. No government, scientist, or private actor is willing to leave it alone. As the coalition learns to operate what survived, exploration becomes a race, access becomes power, and every unexplained failure begins to look like sabotage. Book Two of The Rift Sequence begins when humanity stops studying the impossible and starts using it. The first openings are small. The ambitions built around them are not.

Book Two

In preparation

Unannounced

Three more volumes are planned. Nothing about them is settled enough to describe, so nothing about them is described here.

  1. Book Three

  2. Book Four

  3. Book Five

The record the sequence draws on is real, open, and does not wait for the next book.

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