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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Preference Disguised as Conviction A founder sat across from her cofounder

A founder sat across from her cofounder at 4 PM on a Tuesday in a glass conference room with one decision left to close. They were hiring for a senior product role, two candidates roughly equivalent on paper. One fit the team. One fit the founder. For three days she had been telling him she had "a sense" about the second candidate. Now, sitting under fluorescent light with the offer letter pulled up on her laptop, she said it again. "I have peace about this one. I think the Spirit is...

The Glory Question Goes Unasked A CTO is standing in front of a whiteboard

A CTO is standing in front of a whiteboard in a conference room at 4:15 p.m. on a Thursday. He has been working on the proposal for fourteen months. Three architecture diagrams are taped to the wall. A spreadsheet is open on the projector. The plan is a two-year rewrite of the company's core platform, the system the entire business runs on, the system the CTO has been telling anyone who will listen has to be replaced before it collapses under its own weight. The CFO is asking the third...

Deciding While H.A.L.T. A founder is sitting at her standing desk at 5:47

A founder is sitting at her standing desk at 5:47 p.m. Her last meal was a cup of coffee and half a piece of toast at 6:20 that morning. Lunch was a sandwich her assistant put on the corner of her desk at 12:40 that she never picked up. She has been on calls since 8:00 a.m. Her two-year-old has had a fever for three days. She has not slept more than four hours a night in two weeks. The email sitting in her inbox is from a board member who wrote, in three short paragraphs, that he was...

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