The Vethrak Requiem - Book 1.5

Humanity is building its first extrasolar fleet. The ships that will carry that mission sit in drydock, weeks from...

The Defiant Stand (The Vethrak Requiem) by Justin Wilson

Series

The Exodus Rush (The Vethrak Requiem Book 1)
The Tau Ceti Gambit (The Vethrak Requiem Book 2)
A Sky Full of Fire (The Vethrak Requiem Book 3)

The Vethrak Requiem

In 2125, humanity learned a terrible truth: we are not alone in the universe, and we are not safe.

The Vethrak arrived without warning, without negotiation, without mercy. They call themselves "Those Who Claim," and to them, the harvesting of intelligent species is as...

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The Default Settings A man stands at his kitchen counter at 6:47 on a

A man stands at his kitchen counter at 6:47 on a Tuesday morning, travel mug in his left hand, phone in his right, the side door already open, his keys hooked between two fingers. His wife is at the island three feet away. She says one sentence about the weekend, a sentence that is half a request and half a worry, and he hears the worry land first. He feels his shoulders square. He feels the half-second decision arrive at the back of his throat. He has eleven minutes to make a forty-minute...

The Field Manual The man sits in his truck in a hardware-store parking lot

The man sits in his truck in a hardware-store parking lot on a Sunday afternoon, the engine off, a folded yellow legal page in his shirt pocket with three names written on it in his own handwriting. The Send Reflex. Deciding Alone. The Counterfeit Peace. He wrote them yesterday at his kitchen table, the way the article asked. He took the page to his wife last night, the way the article asked. She added a fourth one before he could close his mouth. He drove to the hardware store this afternoon...

Mapping Your Own Anti-Patterns A woman sits at her kitchen table at 6:14 on

A woman sits at her kitchen table at 6:14 on a Saturday morning, a yellow legal pad in front of her, a cup of coffee going cold at her elbow, twenty-nine printed Substack posts in a manila folder she has marked May. She has read every one. She has been telling herself, every Monday morning for four weeks, that she would do the work of the month at the end of the month, that the daily reading was preparation and the real audit was coming. The end of the month is now. The legal pad is blank....

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