Exoskeleton: The Exoskeleton Series, Book 1

by Shane Stadler

Wrongly convicted of a crime that will haunt him forever, William Thompson gambles everything on a secret one-year experimental program instead of rotting in prison for decades. The instant the experiment begins, he knows he's made a colossal mistake.

What they do to his mind and body is only the beginning. As sanity fractures and death starts to feel like a mercy he will never be granted, something impossible awakens inside him—an ability that lets him reach beyond flesh, beyond pain, and glimpse a hidden world people have killed to both reveal and conceal.

Book one of Shane Stadler’s Exoskeleton series is a relentless psychological descent that listeners warn will put a mark on your soul … and by its final word ignites a quiet, luminous hope few ever see coming.

* This may be the most disturbing science-fiction novel you’ll ever finish—and still feel grateful you did.*

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Published May 21, 2025

About the author

Shane Stadler is an experimental physicist. He has worked at numerous government research and defense laboratories, and is currently a professor of physics at a major research university. EXOSKELETON is his first novel.