The Silent Fleet Beyond Neptune (Paperback)

Paperback. The Silent Fleet Beyond Neptune is a dark science-fiction thriller about Commander Malachi Reeves and the crew of the Aeon, a salvage vessel operating in the isolated reaches of the Neptune system. Haunted by the brutal decisions of the Sargasso Incident, Malachi has learned to survive by treating every crisis as a calculation. But a routine mission soon reveals something far more terrifying than a lost spacecraft: an enormous fleet of ten thousand dormant dreadnoughts hidden beyond Neptune. The ships are technologically impossible, silent, ancient, and yet disturbingly connected to humanity's future.At the center of the mystery is the Mirror Signal, a transmission that does not simply communicate-it predicts, remembers, and psychologically manipulates the people who hear it. The crew begins receiving recordings of events that have not happened, including their own deaths, betrayals, sacrifices, and possible transformations. Even more horrifying, Malachi eventually hears a future version of his own voice describing the destruction of the first human colonies in order to guarantee the survival of a mysterious Second Humanity.As the signal spreads through the crew, reality begins to fracture. Amelia becomes increasingly obsessed with the strange language embedded in the transmission, while fear and suspicion turn the crew against one another. Malachi is forced to confront visions of himself commanding the fleet, watching Earth and its colonies fall beneath an unstoppable tide of dreadnoughts. The Ghost Fleet seems to understand his deepest weakness: his belief that terrible sacrifices are sometimes necessary to save more lives.The story builds toward a terrifying choice as the fleet awakens around Neptune and Triton becomes the apparent target. Malachi must determine whether the future shown by the Mirror Signal is an unavoidable destiny, a psychological weapon, or a future created by the very people trying to prevent it. At its heart, the novel explores free will, identity, military morality, temporal paradoxes, and the terrifying possibility that humanity's greatest enemy may be a perfected version of humanity itself When a salvage crew discovers a massive, dormant armada in deep space, they must face a psychic transmission that broadcasts their own future deaths. Can they defy a predestined apocalypse, or is their doom already written? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…