The Fifth Planet
Release Date: Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Pages: 188 pages
In 'The Fifth Planet: The Last Song of Phaeton', a crew uncovers dark secrets and a powerful alien consciousness while investigating a cosmic signal, leading to a race against time amidst corporate conspiracies and ancient forces.
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Title:The Fifth Planet: The Last Song of Phaeton
Genre: Science Fiction / Space Thriller
A shattered alien legacy. A corporate conspiracy. Humanity’s survival hangs in the balance.
Millennia ago, the Va’naar—a brilliant amphibious civilization—perished when their neutrino detector uncovered a cosmic signal that tore their world apart. Now, their ruins lie buried in the asteroid belt, their final warning echoing from the icy dwarf planet Ceres. When the *Belt Explorer* crew arrives to investigate the “Phaeton Hypothesis”—a theory claiming a fifth planet once existed in the solar system—they uncover Ceres’ chilling secrets: unnatural structures, cryptic thermal anomalies, and a biohazardous alien ooze pulsating with sentience. But their mission spirals into chaos as a micrometeoroid strike forces them to seek refuge at a mining base, where armed crews and whispered rumors hint at a darker truth: Apex Mining has been hiding something far deadlier than rare metals. As the crew delves deeper, they awaken an ancient force—the Va’naar’s consciousness, preserved in microbial code. Meanwhile, on Earth, Bob Travis, a disgraced cook infected by the alien contagion, becomes a pawn in a corporate war. Pursued by Omni-Space and Apex, Bob’s fractured mind channels the Va’naar’s warnings, drawing desperate allies into a chilling pact that threatens to spread the alien chorus across humanity. From the frozen plains of Ceres to the shadowy heart of San Francisco’s Tenderloin, The Fifth Planet weaves a gripping tale of cosmic mystery and human ambition. Can a rogue captain, a paranoid engineer, and a street hustler outrun rival corporations and decode an alien dirge before the Va’naar’s song consumes them all?
Genre: Science Fiction / Space Thriller
A shattered alien legacy. A corporate conspiracy. Humanity’s survival hangs in the balance.
Millennia ago, the Va’naar—a brilliant amphibious civilization—perished when their neutrino detector uncovered a cosmic signal that tore their world apart. Now, their ruins lie buried in the asteroid belt, their final warning echoing from the icy dwarf planet Ceres. When the *Belt Explorer* crew arrives to investigate the “Phaeton Hypothesis”—a theory claiming a fifth planet once existed in the solar system—they uncover Ceres’ chilling secrets: unnatural structures, cryptic thermal anomalies, and a biohazardous alien ooze pulsating with sentience. But their mission spirals into chaos as a micrometeoroid strike forces them to seek refuge at a mining base, where armed crews and whispered rumors hint at a darker truth: Apex Mining has been hiding something far deadlier than rare metals. As the crew delves deeper, they awaken an ancient force—the Va’naar’s consciousness, preserved in microbial code. Meanwhile, on Earth, Bob Travis, a disgraced cook infected by the alien contagion, becomes a pawn in a corporate war. Pursued by Omni-Space and Apex, Bob’s fractured mind channels the Va’naar’s warnings, drawing desperate allies into a chilling pact that threatens to spread the alien chorus across humanity. From the frozen plains of Ceres to the shadowy heart of San Francisco’s Tenderloin, The Fifth Planet weaves a gripping tale of cosmic mystery and human ambition. Can a rogue captain, a paranoid engineer, and a street hustler outrun rival corporations and decode an alien dirge before the Va’naar’s song consumes them all?