"Out of the Storm" is the fifth novel in The Megalith Sequence, James F. Miller's acclaimed hard science fiction series.
Perfect for fans of Andy Weir and The Expanse.
The Megalith network is dying.
The microorganism that destroyed a single dead string in Book 4 has spread. One by one, the connections between worlds are going dark. Every species that has learned to travel the network has weeks — maybe days — before the stars go silent.
And Red Sullivan is chasing a Builder ship across a dead system with no functioning sensors, a military captain who wants to blow it up, and the woman he loves somewhere aboard it.
Talaya went with Cypher. Red doesn't know why. He knows only that he has to reach her before the fleet does, before the Carra — supposedly broken and isolated — mount another coordinated attack, and before a new alien species whose ships are partially built from Builder metal decides that the chaos is an opportunity.
Beside him, Miray is changing again.
The Builder circuitry beneath her skin is reactivating, pulling her toward something on the Builders' home world. She chose to come anyway — because Cypher is headed there, Talaya is with her, and Miray still calls Red "Dad." But if the Builders are reaching for her again through their own dead world, there may be nothing Red can do to bring her back.
"Out of the Storm" brings the first great arc of the Megalith Sequence to its end: a race across a collapsing network, a first contact that could mean war or something stranger, and the moment Red Sullivan — failed astronaut, accidental hero, reluctant father — finally gets to decide what kind of future is worth building from scratch.
Because when the last Megalith goes dark, someone has to be ready to start over.
The Megalith Sequence — Book 5. The storm doesn't end. It releases.
Genre: Science Fiction
Perfect for fans of Andy Weir and The Expanse.
The Megalith network is dying.
The microorganism that destroyed a single dead string in Book 4 has spread. One by one, the connections between worlds are going dark. Every species that has learned to travel the network has weeks — maybe days — before the stars go silent.
And Red Sullivan is chasing a Builder ship across a dead system with no functioning sensors, a military captain who wants to blow it up, and the woman he loves somewhere aboard it.
Talaya went with Cypher. Red doesn't know why. He knows only that he has to reach her before the fleet does, before the Carra — supposedly broken and isolated — mount another coordinated attack, and before a new alien species whose ships are partially built from Builder metal decides that the chaos is an opportunity.
Beside him, Miray is changing again.
The Builder circuitry beneath her skin is reactivating, pulling her toward something on the Builders' home world. She chose to come anyway — because Cypher is headed there, Talaya is with her, and Miray still calls Red "Dad." But if the Builders are reaching for her again through their own dead world, there may be nothing Red can do to bring her back.
"Out of the Storm" brings the first great arc of the Megalith Sequence to its end: a race across a collapsing network, a first contact that could mean war or something stranger, and the moment Red Sullivan — failed astronaut, accidental hero, reluctant father — finally gets to decide what kind of future is worth building from scratch.
Because when the last Megalith goes dark, someone has to be ready to start over.
The Megalith Sequence — Book 5. The storm doesn't end. It releases.
Genre: Science Fiction