Traitor's Run: The Lenticular Series Space Opera Book 1

Shortlisted - Best SF Novel Aurealis Awards and Best Novel Ditmar Awards

"A potent SF depiction of humanity victimizing peaceful aliens." Kirkus Reviews

Two outcasts. One goal. Stop Earth.

Earth's Hegemony controls the surrounding alien civilisations with ruthless force. Its aim: dominate the galaxy to protect humanity.

On Earth, disgraced pilot Rhees Lowrans is thrust into a job she doesn't want. She sees firsthand how the Hegemony will sacrifice anything - including her - to keep Earth safe.

In the Lenticular, Udun - one of the empathic Kresz - is on a secret mission when he learns of the Hegemony's expansion into nearby space. But his warnings are ignored and the Hegemony invades his world and mutilates any Kresz who oppose them.

Can these two outsiders stand against the might of the Hegemony? And will the human race survive if they succeed?

"... wild and expansive, and just so utterly out there.'' Aurealis Magazine

Keith Stevenson is the author of the sf thriller Horizon (HarperCollins). His short fiction has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Aurealis Magazine and Agog! Fantastic Fiction. He was editor of Aurealis Magazine from 2001 to 2004, hosted 30 episodes of the Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction Podcast, and edited and published Dimension6 the free Australian speculative fiction electronic magazine from 2014 to 2020.