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The Cryethium Wars
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781049253329
Publisher: Tie Publishers
Published: Apr 25 2026
Pages: 580
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.17 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The war is no longer just for Earth. It is for the future of the universe.
Stuart and Frankie now stand at the epicentre of a galactic war unlike any before. The discovery of Cryethium, mysterious, indestructible, and unimaginably powerful, has fractured the boundaries of politics, loyalty, and even reality. The Lytherian Colony may have revealed the ancient extra-terrestrial roots of the element, but it also unveiled something far more dangerous: an impending invasion.
In The Cryethium Wars, six years have passed since Stuart, Frankie, and the team left Earth behind. The Zang Corporation, unchecked and emboldened, has seized control of vast portions of the planet. Backed by a shadowy global network of corrupt leaders, they've twisted Cryethium's potential, using The Tesseract Protocol not for balance or peace, but to create weapons, mind-control technologies, and even temporal disruption devices. Earth is no longer a free world, it's a testing ground for domination.
While Earth falls deeper into shadow, Stuart and his team uncover messages buried deep within the alien infrastructure on the Lytherian Colony, messages intended for the descendants of those once chosen to guard the universal balance of Cryethium. And though Stuart's family ties link him to those ancient Lytherian protectors, it is Frankie's origins from the mysterious water-world of Ephraedies that prove vital. Her planet holds ancient knowledge of Cryethium's elemental flow, knowledge that predates even the Lytherian Order.
As Frankie deciphers the wisdom of Ephraedian scrolls and underwater archives, a plan begins to form. If the team can activate the ancient rift-drive ship buried in the Lytherian vaults, an interdimensional vessel capable of piercing gravitational walls, they may yet return to Earth. But using the ship means tapping into unstable Cryethium streams, and the journey back will tear through both space and time, risking not only their lives, but the entire temporal fabric of reality.
Meanwhile, Earth teeters on the brink. Resistance cells fight from the shadows. Some old allies remain, but they too are compromised. The Zang are preparing for total Cryethium control, and once they unlock the Tesseract Core's final layer, nothing will stand in their way.
Stuart, Frankie, and the team must make the leap. Returning to Earth means confronting not only the corrupted power they once exposed, but also the cost of the time they've lost.
And unexpected old friend makes a dramatic return.
The Cryethium Wars have begun.
Earth must be reclaimed. Truth must be restored.
And Cryethium must return to its rightful purpose, before the universe itself fractures beyond repair.
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