Return to Alpha Centauri

by Mike Dean, Natalia Junqueira (Illustrator), Jonathan Oliver (Editor)

Anthropologist Agus Courtland warned the world about the remote tribe from Java who had exceptional telekinetic gifts, but no one took note. But as astronaut Clay Meredith and the Space Force team begin to colonize Mars, it becomes apparent the new species known as the Forerunners have gotten there first and created a secret mining community—and are now poised to become the new world's superpower.
Meanwhile, on Earth, a political war wages between the realists and the virtualists, who want to ignore science and halt space exploration. When the virtualist dictator takes over control of the Space Force, the fate of the new Martian colony is at stake. . . until a mysterious artefact is discovered at the summit of Olympus Mons.
What is it, and where did it come from? Is it fake or does it hold clues to life outside of Earth? The answer could change everything, and the future of humanity is in the hands of Eliot, the son of a Space Force pilot and the leader of the Forerunners, who is torn between the two opposing views.
Told from the alternating viewpoints of a colourful cast of characters in a richly imagined futuristic world, Return to Alpha Centauri is a riveting interstellar tale of adventure and political intrigue.

385 pages, Paperback

Published May 26, 2023