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The Iron Ascent: Book 5 of the Transit Star Continuum
Paperback
Series: The Transit Star Continuum, Book 5
ISBN13: 9781764494298
Publisher: Rusty Fish Press
Published: Jun 8 2026
Pages: 680
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.36 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
WE REACHED THE STARS.
WE WERE NOT READY FOR WHAT WE FOUND.
Humanity has survived the impossible.
Earth is wounded. The Moon and Mars are no longer dreams. And for the first time, a human vessel has crossed the darkness to another star.
What waits there changes everything.
The universe is no longer an empty frontier.
And humanity may already have been noticed.
For centuries, we looked into the night and asked whether we were alone.
Now there is a more dangerous question:
What happens when we discover we are not?
Back on Earth, the consequences of that first crossing begin to spread.
Old assumptions fracture.
New technologies challenge the limits of what humanity thought possible.
Governments prepare quietly for a future no one knows how to control.
And the powers that once seemed ancient and unknowable are beginning to realise that they may not stand at the top of the universe after all.
At the centre of the upheaval, Ben Callum is still changing.
He survived what should have killed him.
Now the world around him is beginning to answer in ways he cannot fully understand-and may not be able to control.
Elsewhere, Lilith follows a path of her own.
The distance between them grows.
So does the consequence.
Humanity has spent its history struggling to survive one world.
Now it has found the road to others.
But a road is never only a way out.
It is also a way in.
WHAT IF LIFE IS MORE COMMON THAN YOU THINK?
THE IRON ASCENT is Book 5 of the Transit Star Continuum-a mythic science-fiction thriller of first contact, interstellar exploration, ancient powers and humanity's first dangerous step into a universe that may already be occupied.
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