Humankind is spread across three thousand light years in a myriad of
worlds and habitats known as the Human Entelechy. Linked by a network of
wormholes with Earth at its center, it is the world Captain RJ Stone
awakens to after a twelve-thousand-year cryogenic suspension.
Stone soon finds himself commanding the maiden voyage of the first
spacecraft to break the light speed barrier: the FTL Further. In
search of extraterrestrial intelligence, the landing party explores a
distant pulsar only to be taken prisoner by the bloodthirsty Iron Mass,
a religious sect exiled from the Entelechy millennia before. Now Stone
and his crew must escape while they try to solve the riddle of the
planet's network of stone towers that may be proof of the intelligence
they've come to find.
The first in critically acclaimed author Chris Roberson's scintillating
new series, Further: Beyond the Threshold is a fascinating ride to the
farthest reaches of the imagination.