Dead Reckoning

No map. No rescue. Only the ship, the crew, and the willingness to be wrong slowly instead of lost all at once.

Spent Light is a hard science fiction starship-survival series set in the Fracture Cosmology: the story of one ship flung past the edge of the map, and the crew that has to become a crew to survive the way home.

The ISV Endurance was built to go farther than any human vessel before her. Instead, her maiden voyage leaves her damaged, isolated, and trapped in a dying region of space where the old maps are useless and every answer costs more than the crew can afford.

This is hard-SF command adventure: damaged ships, impossible choices, first-contact tension, deep-space mystery, and the pressure of leadership when no one is coming to help.

Each novel delivers a complete arc, but the journey of the Endurance and her crew is best read in order.