No map. No rescue. Only the ship, the crew, and the willingness to be wrong slowly instead of lost all at once.
The ISV Endurance is the finest ship humanity has ever built, and she is on her maiden voyage when someone tries to kill her. The sabotage works better than anyone intended — it tears her supply modules off in mid-fold and flings her to a dead corner of the universe. No network. No charts. No road home. Only guttering stars and a region that is quietly running down. Within the hour her captain is gone, her first officer will not wake, and command falls to two people who should never have to share it.
Adventure SF. Hard-SF underneath. A complete standalone trilogy — the cleanest way into the whole Fracture Cosmology, with no other book required.
3 Books
Complete Trilogy
2240–2245
Timeline
ISV Endurance
Vessel
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Entry Point
Book One: Dead Reckoning (2240)
A maiden voyage sabotaged in mid-fold. The Endurance is flung past the edge of the charted network with her aft third sheared away. The captain is killed; the first officer will not wake. Command splits between a Geneva undersecretary who has only ever run a room and a line officer who trusts no one's judgement, least of all her own. They have one drive commit left and a long way home by dead reckoning.
Book Two: The Wrong Side (2241–42)
The crew learns the true shape of the far pocket — and the true cost of their choices. The war they were told about was a lie; the cost is real. The chair comes at a price, and the price is paid. The Endurance never fully recovers, and the people aboard her have to decide what kind of crew they are going to be.
Book Three: Opening the Span (2242–45)
The long road home through a dying pocket of the universe. A door home is found — and a pursuit begins. The choices made at the Span reach all the way back to humanity's intact network, and the largest wound of all is opened. The close of Spent Light and the hinge into what comes next.
Each book is a complete adventure, but the trilogy tells one continuous story — a ship flung past the edge of the map, and the crew that has to become a crew to survive it. New to the universe? This is the front door.