The Transit Star (Paperback)

K. Britton

ISBN 10: 1764494210 / ISBN 13: 9781764494212

Published by Rusty Fish Press, 2026

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Paperback. The universe does not end with fire or thunder.It ends with inconvenience.When a quiet cosmic anomaly begins to destabilise the world, governments search for answers, systems strain under invisible pressure, and the wrong people start surviving events they shouldn't. Ben Callum is one of them.After a near-fatal incident that should have ended his life, Ben finds himself pulled into a reality that no longer behaves as expected. Chance stops acting like chance. Death hesitates. And signs begin to appear-subtle at first, then undeniable-that something ancient is moving beneath the surface of the modern world.As institutions scramble to contain what they don't understand, powerful figures watch from the shadows, weighing intervention against consequence. Old myths stir, not as religion, but as mechanisms. Rules long forgotten begin to reassert themselves, and the cost of survival becomes dangerously unclear.The Transit Star is the opening novel in a dark, intelligent science-fiction saga that blends hard science, modern myth, and philosophical speculation. Grounded in character and escalating with quiet menace, it explores what happens when the universe stops pretending to be fair-and what kind of people endure when it does.This is not a story about chosen ones.It is a story about those who persist. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Transit Star (Paperback)
• Publisher: Rusty Fish Press
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1764494210
• ISBN 13: 9781764494212
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

HUMANITY HAS SPENT GENERATIONS PREPARING FOR THE WRONG APOCALYPSE.

We fear asteroids because they strike.

A star doesn't have to.

Astronomers discover a star far too close to Earth. At first, it is a scientific impossibility — a new object to observe, measure and explain.

Then the calculations begin.

Its gravity is altering the Earth. The days are getting longer: first seconds, then minutes, then daylight that refuses to end.

There is no impact date. No single moment of catastrophe. No missile to launch. No heroic last-minute chance to turn it aside.

The star simply keeps coming.

With every lengthening day, the world humanity built becomes a little less possible. Scientists recalculate. Governments manage the truth. Markets convulse. People keep going to work, raising children and making plans — because what else do you do when extinction is approaching slowly enough to watch?

Eventually, the models agree.

THIS IS AN EXTINCTION-LEVEL EVENT.

The vast majority of humanity will not survive.

And while the world looks to the sky, Ben Callum survives something of his own.

Something he shouldn't.

Ben is not a soldier, a prophet or the heir to some forgotten bloodline. No prophecy names him. No god chooses him. No destiny intervenes.

BEN CALLUM IS MEANT TO DIE.

HE DOES NOT.

And somewhere beyond anything humanity understands, that matters.

Beneath the apparent randomness of life and death lies an older architecture — an order of balance, consequence and mortality that has endured unseen beneath civilisation.

Everything has a place within it.

Even the gods.

BEN DOES NOT.

He cannot be weighed. He cannot be accounted for. He is not chosen.

HE IS AN ABERRATION.

And those who come too close to him begin to change. Perception sharpens. Instinct stirs. Things once dismissed as impossible become harder to ignore.

While scientists struggle to understand the star, something ancient begins to recognise a far more dangerous problem:

THE RULES HAVE FAILED.

Once.

With one ordinary man.

And if they can fail once —

WHAT ELSE CAN BREAK THROUGH?

One catastrophe is changing the length of a day.

The other is changing what death means.

NO FATE. NO KARMA. NO LEDGER.

The Transit Star begins The Transit Star Continuum, an epic dark speculative saga of extinction, impossible survival, ancient mythology and cosmic consequence.

THE STAR MAY END HUMANITY.

BEN CALLUM MAY BREAK THE ORDER THAT SURVIVES IT.