Military science fiction by Justin Wilson
The Vethrak
Requiem
Humanity survived.
Now it has to decide what comes next.
Salvaged alien technology. Fragile alliances. Ordinary people making impossible choices in a galaxy that has learned to fear the Vethrak.
Your first voyage
The Exodus Rush
Book 1
A human voice.
From beyond the Kuiper Belt.
Twelve years after the invasion, humanity is rebuilding with alien technology it barely understands. Then a signal reaches its first warships: survivors are still out there, calling into the dark.
For Kira Vance and the crews sent to investigate, a rescue mission becomes a question of what humanity is willing to risk for its own.
Beyond the first voyage
The story grows.
So does the cost.
Follow the core series from a desperate rescue to a coalition standing against the Vethrak. Start with The Exodus Rush, then continue in this order.
See the reading order, including The Defiant Stand
Book 2
The Tau Ceti Gambit
Humanity reaches Tau Ceti. A first encounter with the Keraneth opens the possibility of an alliance against a shared enemy.
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Book 3
A Sky Full of Fire
The Vethrak return to Earth. Humanity and its allies must put their trust in each other to the test.
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Book 4
The Hunter’s Mark
The alliance takes the fight beyond survival. The species the Vethrak marked as prey begin to fight back.
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A galaxy beyond the battlefield
Survival is only
the beginning.
The Vethrak harvest intelligent civilizations. Humanity has survived an invasion, but the threat has not ended.
Engineers work with systems they are still learning to understand. Officers carry the weight of lives entrusted to them. Across the stars, survivors must decide whether they can trust one another.
This is a universe of first contact and hard choices, where victories have consequences and hope takes work.
From the wider universe
There are more
stories out there.
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