The ESV Thorfinn’s mission to the exoplanet Tyche was supposed to be simple: investigate a communications blackout, fix the problem, return home.

But their lander explodes on entry.

Stranded on a barren alien world, Dr. Karin Amani finds the research base abandoned and her squad scattered. The pale vegetation engineered to terraform the planet has grown completely out of control—and it’s hungry for more.

As she searches for survivors, Karin uncovers a disturbing truth: this mission was compromised from the start. Someone knew what she’d find down there.

Now she faces an impossible choice between her own survival and stopping a contamination that could destroy humanity.

A gripping survival thriller for fans of The Martian and Annihilation.

Hard science fiction
Standalone novella ~40,000 words