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Artifice

(2024)
A novel by

 
 
…An agenda for mankind’s future as dark and cold as the depths of space.

2036 – While junior scientist, Dr. Peggy Harland, is researching a unique lifeform found in a meteorite, a discovery yet unannounced to the public, her lab is suddenly engulfed in explosions and fire, destroying the huge facility. Peggy barely escapes with her life. And her unearthly sample.

2039 – Retired Major Grey Lockhart, working as a private sector astronaut-pilot for a lunar science crew, is caught up in the find of the millennium. A microscopic lifeform is attached to a meteorite found on the moon! When the lifeform accidentally infects the other astronaut scientists, inexplicably transforming them into unfathomable, murderous monstrosities, Grey faces the fight of his life, with no real weapons, against a seemingly indestructible entity. In the tiny spacecraft, there is nowhere to run or hide.

2045 – Unheralded internet reporter, Nolan Case, lucks into a live broadcast of a spacecraft crash in the center of Washington D.C. When the deceased pilot is shown to be something inhuman, Nolan’s footage goes viral. The world is embroiled in panic and uproar.

To pacify the global frenzy, a multinational ambassadorial team is publicly announced to journey to the UFO’s estimated origin. Secretly, it is a ruse to cover a strike team being sent to the same destination.

In the anonymity of space, a mysterious cabal is suspected of perverse and deadly experiments against humanity. What the clandestine strike team discovers is nothing they could’ve prepared for. Together, with imbedded consultant Grey Lockhart, correspondent Nolan Case, and Dr. Peggy Harland, they will have to survive an unholy death trap to stop an agenda for mankind’s future as dark and cold as the depths of space.



Genre: Science Fiction

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