Dark Energy

di Alison Croft (Autore)

Alison Croft, 2026

Deep on the industrial fringe of deep space, Nadir Station was supposed to harvest limitless power from the vacuum. Instead, Chief Engineer Valerie Mercer watches in horror as the station's primary intake manifold breaches, unleashing the "violet bleed"—a reality-warping static that fractures the local laws of physics and devours human consciousness. Crew members are reduced to vacant shells, their memories stripped away and replaced by an alien, rhythmic clicking. When disgraced neuro-mathematician Aris Calder reveals that the Core Consortium's energy grid is actually a cosmic tether feeding predatory, multi-dimensional Gorgon leviathans, Val and her cynical welder Jaxen "Gears" Cole realize the harrowing truth: humanity's ultimate power source is a harvesting machine designed to consume the fabric of existence. Fleeing aboard the battered ghost rig The Weaver's Debt, the surviving crew is hunted through the disintegrating void by Kaelen Vex and his Echo Vanguard—a nihilistic cult that worships the memory-erasing Static as spiritual ascension. Every thruster ignition and energy draw becomes a beacon that draws the cosmic leviathans closer, while the violet bleed relentlessly gnaws at the crew's minds, eroding their identities, pasts, and sanity. Desperate to retain their humanity, Val and Gears begin carving their names, schematics, and memories directly into their flesh with welding styluses, relying on the physical sting of scars as their only anchors in an unraveling universe. With the sky fracturing and the leviathan preparing to cross into realspace, Val and her crew must mount a desperate strike against the Opal Citadel—the gleaming epicenter of Consortium rule—to broadcast the forbidden Genesis Log and collapse the energy grid. But shutting down a dimensional tear of this magnitude requires a living conduit to withstand the catastrophic feedback of the Singularity Engine. Val must choose between saving humanity from cosmic extinction or preserving the last shreds of her own identity, preparing to weld shut the dimensional wound at the cost of everything she has ever known.

• Autore: Alison Croft
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Alison Croft
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237645354