A series · 5 books
The Drift
by R. S. Breed, in reading order
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Book 1 · Start here
Cohort
The institution wrote the report. Cohort 12 knows what it does not say. The International Seam Navigation Institute teaches humans how to use the most dangerous technology the universe has produced: the Seam network, a f...
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Book 2
First Run
NV Erika Magnusdóttir runs a Junction 14-A survey. The system reads empty. The harmonic array picks up a return signal. For three weeks, the crew watches a framework take shape that does not, by the institute's standard,...
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Book 3
Running Dark
Officer Dáithí Mac Diarmada has been in the navigation programme for nine years. He has not been wrong about anything that mattered. The dead civilization's structures are artificial. He calculated this before anyone els...
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Book 4
Bright Horizon
A welfare mission. A colony with twelve years of practiced silence. A Second Navigator with a decision the mission brief does not authorize. In 2155, the survey vessel Erika Magnusdóttir arrives at Colonial World 3 for a...
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Book 5
The Long Light
The first deliberate first-contact mission in human history was not sent to find a voice. It was sent to answer a shape. In 2172, the International Space Authority authorises NV Persistent Error to approach Junction 44-F...
