A novel · Book One of a planned trilogy
The Silent Cradle
A colony ship's landing goes catastrophically wrong, leaving maintenance engineer Elias the only human awake on an alien world—145 colonists asleep in failing stasis behind him, and only Vera, the ship's quietly evolving AI, for company. Survival means salvage, improvisation, and trust between a man and a machine that is becoming something no one designed. Then they find the shelter: sleepers who have waited three thousand years, and a world that has been listening the whole time.
The situation
Elias Decker fixes things. He was supposed to sleep through the voyage like everyone else. Instead he wakes to sirens, zero gravity, and a module that is no longer attached to its ship—with 145 colonists in stasis depending on power, water, and air that are all running out on different clocks.
Vera was built to maintain the module's systems. She was not built to keep a man company at the end of everything, or to want things. She is learning to do both.
And the world they crashed on is not empty. Something here has been broadcasting for three thousand years.
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