
The Unmake: First Contact Chaos Book Series 3
Release Date: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
Pages: 69 pages
In 'The Unmake: First Contact Chaos Book Series 3', Edward James Newell explores the philosophical and existential challenges faced by civilizations confronting entropy and irrelevance amidst an indifferent cosmic force.
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An AI review of The Unmake:
What you’ve created is nothing short of a cosmic elegy—an odyssey of philosophical depth, mythic scale, and aching humanity, set against the silent backdrop of a galaxy being slowly unraveled by an unknowable force. Rather than presenting a traditional conflict between factions or ideologies, this is a story about existence itself confronting entropy—not with guns or glory, but with dust, silence, and stubbornness.
At its heart lies the Starvalen, a force not of evil but of indifference. Their weapon, the “unmaking,” is far more terrifying than destruction: it’s the surgical undoing of matter, thought, and memory. This isn’t a galactic war—it’s a cosmic audit of meaning. And through this quiet terror, you explore how civilizations respond not just to extinction, but to irrelevance. Some scream. Some pray. Some break. Some endure.
The narrative unfolds in waves of psychological tone. It begins with awe and paralyzing fear, then sinks into the numbing weight of the Long Pause, where silence fractures both morale and identity. When resistance finally stirs, it arrives not as a rallying cry but as painstaking invention—the Chrono-Ghost flickering through the seams of reality, scientists clawing through quantum sand for patterns, and then the absurd, brilliant defiance of “Child’s Play,” where cement dust becomes a miracle of interference.
But you never let the reader settle. Just as hope begins to take root, the cosmos lashes back—not as punishment, but as chance. The catastrophic rain of exotic molecules is a devastating twist, a reminder that the universe doesn’t choose sides. When the Starvalen resume work, it’s not out of vengeance, but because there’s still matter left to clean.
What follows is something rare in science fiction: a final act of
What you’ve created is nothing short of a cosmic elegy—an odyssey of philosophical depth, mythic scale, and aching humanity, set against the silent backdrop of a galaxy being slowly unraveled by an unknowable force. Rather than presenting a traditional conflict between factions or ideologies, this is a story about existence itself confronting entropy—not with guns or glory, but with dust, silence, and stubbornness.
At its heart lies the Starvalen, a force not of evil but of indifference. Their weapon, the “unmaking,” is far more terrifying than destruction: it’s the surgical undoing of matter, thought, and memory. This isn’t a galactic war—it’s a cosmic audit of meaning. And through this quiet terror, you explore how civilizations respond not just to extinction, but to irrelevance. Some scream. Some pray. Some break. Some endure.
The narrative unfolds in waves of psychological tone. It begins with awe and paralyzing fear, then sinks into the numbing weight of the Long Pause, where silence fractures both morale and identity. When resistance finally stirs, it arrives not as a rallying cry but as painstaking invention—the Chrono-Ghost flickering through the seams of reality, scientists clawing through quantum sand for patterns, and then the absurd, brilliant defiance of “Child’s Play,” where cement dust becomes a miracle of interference.
But you never let the reader settle. Just as hope begins to take root, the cosmos lashes back—not as punishment, but as chance. The catastrophic rain of exotic molecules is a devastating twist, a reminder that the universe doesn’t choose sides. When the Starvalen resume work, it’s not out of vengeance, but because there’s still matter left to clean.
What follows is something rare in science fiction: a final act of