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The Vanishing Astronauts
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 10 2026
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The International Space Station passes silently over the dark side of Earth. Inside, astronauts float through routine tasks, trading casual banter with mission control-until they all stop at once.
Mid-sentence. Mid-motion. Mid-breath.
They turn their heads toward a point in space no camera can see and freeze, eyes open, serene... listening to something no one on Earth can hear.
Twenty minutes later, they're gone.
No airlock. No alarms. One frame: a living crew. The next: empty modules, drifting tools, a slow tumble of a velcro pouch in weightless air. As if the people were removed from reality without disturbing the room around them.
At the exact second the last astronaut vanishes, deep-space antennas pick up a new signal. Not a message. A sequence. Coordinates. Gravitational weak points. A map of how to reach into Earth's orbital web and start twisting.
Cassia Wynn, a space agency liaison trained to manage disaster with calm, clinical language, is dragged into a crisis that defies every protocol. Alongside Dr. Rowan Pike-a conspiracy-tainted astrophysicist who's been shouting about buried anomalies for years-she uncovers an unthinkable truth:
The ISS isn't just a station. It's a door.
The vanished astronauts aren't missing. They're being used.
And the signal isn't talking to us.
It's configuring us.
As satellites begin to drift off-script and the sky itself starts to respond, Cassia and Rowan must decide how far they're willing to go to fight something that never sends a ship, never fires a weapon, and doesn't seem to care whether humanity understands what's happening-
Only that we learn to be very, very quiet.
For fans of hard science thrillers, cosmic horror, and slow-burn apocalypse stories, The Vanishing Astronauts asks one question:
What if the first thing that found us... didn't want to talk?
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