A series · 5 books
The Reach
by R. S. Breed, in reading order
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Book 1 · Start here
The Wrong Number
The ISV Lodestar works the Rivas Corridor at the height of a frontier golden age — a chain of catcher stations flinging sealed mountains of cargo across the system and catching them gentle as freight, run by a captain, D...
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Book 2
The Guttering Light
The Lantern is the busiest crossing on the frontier — a cathedral of vanes that holds a fold in space open so an entire region can thread home through one lit door. When a bombing tears the crossing apart, a security cra...
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Book 3
The Burning Lanes
The Causeway is the chokepoint that controls a whole deep-frontier region, and Captain Daniel Cross has been handed the mission of his life: a joint goodwill expedition — centre, frontier, and the Nhál under one banner —...
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Book 4
The Doorstep
The cold war the Lodestar thought it had ended is erupting on every front at once — too cleanly, too well-timed, all of it dragging the theatre toward one contested region. To stay ahead, Captain Daniel Cross takes up a...
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Book 5
The Dimming
The line has held for six months. It was never enough. At the edge of the Doorstep, Captain Julian Mercer and the Longwake watch a junction that should be sealed. Its pickets read clean. Its anchors report nominal. Then...
