THE 13TH PLANET

There are eight planets. In March 2047, an astronomer finds a ninth.

It is eleven thousand kilometres across. It is darker than soot. It sits in a stretch of sky that has been photographed every night for a century — and last night it was not there.

It has seams. Nothing in nature makes a seam.

And it is decelerating towards Earth.

Commander Sera Voss takes forty-one scientists, soldiers and engineers out past Mars to meet it. What waits for them is a hollow world with an ocean inside, eleven thousand cities that have been swept clean every eleven days for forty-one thousand years, and a single caretaker who has been alone since before humanity learned to farm.

It has been expecting them. It knows their names. And it has one thing to tell them:

Earth is not where humanity began. It is where humanity was left.

Thirteen worlds were seeded. Twelve were guided, protected and watched over for four hundred centuries. One was abandoned on purpose — a control group, given nothing, told nothing, and never spoken to.

The twelve are silent now. All of them.

The one that was thrown away is still here. And the machine that carried it has come home to collect what it planted.

THE 13TH PLANET is the first book in an epic space opera of first contact, ancient alien technology and the deepest question in science fiction: what if we were never from here at all?

Book One of the Thirteenth Field. A complete story with a bigger one waiting behind it.

📖 427 pages