Sun of the Dead

Alien artifacts penetrate the Solar System, threatening catastrophic consequences for humanity—just emerging beyond Earth’s orbit and beginning to explore the Near Cosmos. Is this reconnaissance or expansion?

Or perhaps, on its endless journey through the Universe, the Sun entered a zone where intelligent beings once lived, and these artifacts are a way to warn their descendants about trouble ahead?

Denis Molodtsov and his crew are brave space explorers—but above all, they are rescuers. And the level of difficulty of a rescue operation does not depend on who or what needs saving—whether it’s their fellow space colleagues, their home planet, or even a star…