BIOGENESIS

A Cosmic Reckoning Space Opera.

Dorian Veyne came back from the Echo carrying more than he took in: five voices, a count, and a mind that no longer fits one body.

He also carries a truth the makers buried with their world. The channel is not only draining this universe. It is building another, a folded seed of banked starlight thirty million years in the making, and it will be born in sixty days whether anyone is ready or not.

The Authority wants the seeds light spent to bring the dimmed stars back, even if it ends the Echo and leaves thirty one years of torn minds unfinished. The Collective, whose own suns are going dark to the same door, wants it sealed. The finished choir wants the unfinished carried home. And a wall that has held the world up for a year has just learned how tired she is.

Dorian sees a fourth way, one that lets the new universe live without erasing the old. To find it he must go inside the seed, where time runs wrong and the dead are asleep in a world with a dying sun, and learn what its makers could not.

Back in the light, a clock is climbing toward unison, a Chair is moving his hand toward the switch, and a woman is keeping a table set for a man who may not return.

It will cost him the one thing the Echo was built to preserve: himself.