The Long Shot

Two women hold the fate of the galaxy in their hands - if they can solve a mystery 4.5 billion years old...

Hornet Abernathy is a college student who dreams of joining the Starship Corps: The elite protectors of the utopian Galactic Concord. Created by transferring a biological mind into a mechanical body, crewed by digitized experts and capable of saving - or destroying - entire worlds, Starships are famous and beloved by billions of sophonts across the galaxy.

Tulon is a warrior-woman on an aquatic, bronze aged world that has never known visitors from the stars...until one of the Starship Corps crashes on their islands. Caught in a desperate war between the islanders who long for freedom and an Empire bearing muskets and cannons, Tulon must work with this stranger from the skies if she has any hope of securing her freedom.

And threatening both is something terrible. Something ancient. Something unstoppable. Something that will burn out the stars themselves...if they don't stop it...

With a sprawling cast of characters and a vast setting inspired by The Ship Who Sang (McCaffrey) and A Deepness In The Sky (Vinge), THE LONG SHOT is like nothing you've seen before.