Pasture

Hard Science Fiction | Lunar Waystation Withdrawal

Neurosurgeon Shen Yan is mid awake craniotomy when her patient turns and speaks in her dead mothers voice: Dont sign.

Nine years earlier she signed the consent form to stop her mothers treatment. A string of patients in vegetative states briefly wake in the same lunar perigee window; a scrap of metal on a kitchen scale gains and loses mass by day and night. Following the data she walks into a brain–computer companys black-budget project—and toward a waystation three hundred eighty thousand kilometers away.

Someone has been visiting Earth for seventy thousand years. They call this place Pasture. Check in. Check out. Checkout can mean the host dies.

Grounded in surgical detail and cold institutional procedure, Pasture is hard science fiction about informed consent, where inspiration comes from, and what a civilization discovers when its brightest sparks may never have been only its own.

For readers of medical SF, first contact, and cold hard worldbuilding.

~47,000 words · 30 chapters.