Earth Station 9

THEY DIDN'T JUST INVADE. THEY BEGAN TO HARVEST.

Ten years ago, the Kharlans arrived. Human ingenuity and nuclear arsenals proved useless against their biological-technological hybrid armor. Major cities fell in days as the invaders turned the entire planet into a buffet-systematically harvesting human bodies for a purpose more terrifying than mere extinction.

Lieutenant Carlson is a survivor, a pilot flying a patchwork armada of retrofitted F-16s-relics of a dead world held together by stolen technology and desperate hope. Stationed on the orbiting carrier Forrestal, he spends his mid-watch patrols hunting bogeys in the "Silent Sea" of deep space, waiting for the next wave to strike.

When Carlson is ordered into the mysterious Sector Three on a high-stakes recon mission, he discovers a nightmare that defies the laws of physics. A ghost ship returns with a pilot who should be dead, bringing news of The Nursery-a moon-sized biological factory that repurposes human technology and human bodies into fuel for an alien womb.

As the crew succumbs to a psychic infection that makes the ship smell like home and sound like a symphony of screams, Carlson realizes the horrifying truth: Humanity isn't just an enemy.

We are the raw materials.

In the cold, indifferent black of space, Carlson must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice to ensure that the garden burns-and that the monsters finally bleed.

Fans of The Expanse and Independence Day will love this dark, high-octane space odyssey where the cost of survival is higher than anyone ever imagined.