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When John Bandicut falls into a cavern on Triton, his life changes irrevocably—and for an alien quarx, a million years of solitude abruptly comes to an end.

Bandicut is hardly ready for the storm of chaos that’s about to blow through his life. He has just made humanity’s first contact with alien life—an intelligence that takes up residence in his mind and will be revealed to no one else. The quarx, part of an ancient galactic civilization that manipulates chaos theory to predict catastrophic events, seeks to prevent an event that could destroy the Earth. But it must have help. If Bandicut chooses to trust the quarx, he must break all the rules—indeed, sacrifice his life as he knows it—to prevent humanity’s greatest cataclysm.

Leaving friends and lover behind, hurtling across the solar system in a stolen spaceship, Bandicut can only pray that his actions will save the Earth. Even if he doesn’t live to see it again.

Neptune Crossing is the opening volume of the acclaimed hard science fiction series, The Chaos Chronicles, from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End.

Available in ebook, print, and audiobook from Starstream Publications. Audiobook narration by Grammy winner Stefan Rudnicki. DRM-free ebook edition.