The Ship That Answered Back: A First Contact Science Fiction Thriller
Language: English
Published by Jason Thomson, 2026
- Softcover
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- Title
- The Ship That Answered Back: A First Contact Science Fiction Thriller
- Author
- Thomson, Jason
- Publisher
- Jason Thomson
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798235383692
Forty years ago, the colony ship Caldera vanished with hundreds of passengers aboard.
Now it has returned.
Not from another star system. Not from a failed jump. Not from any place human charts can explain.
When salvage captain Mara Venn and her battered ship Harrowlight intercept Caldera's impossible signal, the find should make them rich. A legendary lost vessel. A registry match no one expected. A recovery claim that could change their lives.
Then Caldera answers.
The ship is still alive. So are many of its passengers. But they have not aged the way they should have, the corridors rearrange around memory, and the vessel's systems speak with voices that know too much. Somewhere inside the wreck, a warning has been waiting for four decades:
Do not answer.
As Mara's crew digs deeper, they discover Caldera did not simply disappear. It made contact with something vast, alien, and patient, something that listens for civilizations reckless enough to call into the dark.
And humanity has already been heard.
With an Authority cutter closing in, corporate interests ready to claim the ship, and an ancient intelligence testing every instinct that makes humans answer distress, Mara must uncover what really happened aboard Caldera before rescue becomes the deadliest signal of all.
Because in this universe, first contact is not an invitation.
It is a road.
And every road leads something back home.
The Ship That Answered Back is a tense standalone first-contact science fiction thriller packed with spaceship suspense, deep-space mystery, survival stakes, and a chilling alien threat perfect for fans of high-concept sci-fi, lost-ship mysteries, and first-contact stories where the biggest danger is not what waits in the dark, but what answers.
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