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SINISTER (A Novel) by Matthew Rivett

The tidally locked world of Sinister has undergone a cataclysm called The Rip, billions of inert black spheres have enveloped its sunward face, including the left eye of man named Milius. Still functional, he sees a distant unmoving light called ‘The Nexus’ within the phenomena’s black void. Druscilla is a weapons officer, and with Milius her guide, she leads the remnants of an ill-fated expedition to find The Nexus for answers to The Rip’s origin. Their route leads into the heat of Sinister’s vast polar salt flats, the Salis Majora, a bleached landscape of unending sun, hostile and uninhabited. But the desert isn’t empty. Along with the ubiquitous black orbs and its odd and cryptic fauna, they encounter familiar adversaries, relics from the planet’s past, and strange visitors of a possible future. As The Rip is revealed, its secret mirrors humanity’s prior catastrophes, alien and unthinkable, yet entirely familiar. Overwhelmed by circumstance, Dru realizes she may not be able to stop the inevitable consequences of The Rip, but she has the power to shape what’s to come.

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