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The First Scale: Book 4 of the Transit Star Continuum
Paperback
Series: The Transit Star Continuum, Book 4
ISBN13: 9781764494274
Publisher: Rusty Fish Press
Published: May 16 2026
Pages: 648
Weight: 1.39
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
EARTH IS RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
FOR THE FIRST TIME, HUMANITY MAY HAVE SOMEWHERE ELSE TO GO.
Two years after the world broke, survival has become a calculation.
The days are wrong. The seasons are failing. Coastlines shift without warning. Food, water and safe ground are becoming more valuable than borders.
Humanity survived the impossible.
Now it must survive the planet itself.
Then, among the wreckage of the old world, comes a discovery that changes the meaning of distance.
Suddenly, the stars are no longer just something humanity looks toward.
They may be a way out.
But possibility is not salvation.
The moment escape becomes conceivable, everything changes.
Nations manoeuvre.
Old powers take notice.
Resources become weapons.
Alliances begin to fracture.
And a civilisation fighting to remain alive must confront a question more dangerous than whether it can leave Earth:
Who gets to go?
At the centre of it all is Ben Callum-the man who was never chosen, never ordained and never supposed to survive this long.
He has watched gods rise, the dead march and the rules of the world bend around him.
Now the struggle is no longer simply over what remains of Earth.
It is over what comes next.
Because humanity has spent its entire history looking at the stars.
For the first time, someone may be able to reach them.
THE FIRST SCALE is Book 4 of THE TRANSIT STAR CONTINUUM, where the apocalyptic struggle of gods, mortals and monsters expands into a dark science-fiction epic of survival, ambition, power and humanity's first attempt to escape a dying world.
The planet is failing.
The way forward has changed.
And suddenly the future is something people can fight over.
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN A PLANET IS DYING?
LEAVE IT.
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