Cal Ransom always knew the galaxy ran on leverage. He just didn’t expect the leverage to break physics.
As the Ministry’s hidden war spills into the open, a second intelligence—vast, alien, and unsettlingly calm—moves to stop the contagion spreading through slipstream itself. Caught between factions that all claim they’re saving humanity, Cal and the Hard Bargain crew are forced to make choices that no contract, court, or corporate charter was built to judge.
Then the slipstream goes silent.
With faster-than-light travel collapsing and the old order scrambling to survive what comes next, Cal’s crew becomes something they never agreed to be: witnesses to the end of an era—and the first refugees of whatever replaces it.
Genre: Science Fiction
As the Ministry’s hidden war spills into the open, a second intelligence—vast, alien, and unsettlingly calm—moves to stop the contagion spreading through slipstream itself. Caught between factions that all claim they’re saving humanity, Cal and the Hard Bargain crew are forced to make choices that no contract, court, or corporate charter was built to judge.
Then the slipstream goes silent.
With faster-than-light travel collapsing and the old order scrambling to survive what comes next, Cal’s crew becomes something they never agreed to be: witnesses to the end of an era—and the first refugees of whatever replaces it.
Genre: Science Fiction