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The Drop #3
The Drop: Season Three
The alien planet Oz appears to be a glittering stage for Season Three of The Drop—a survival contest where twelve contestants are scattered across the surface and race five hundred kilometers to a distant flag to win a fortune. Contestants are thrown into wildly different environments—stormy seas, shattered timberlands, endless canals, and strange, watchful wilds—where the rules are keep moving or lose.
As the days and weeks turn brutal, Oz reveals it isn’t just hostile—it’s intelligent, uncanny, and inhabited. Players feel the pressure as mysterious creatures stalk campsites, steal supplies, kidnap the unwary, and sometimes…help. Back on Earth, the stakes rise for both Tanaka and Keiko with prosecutors circling, enemies closing in, and a financial conspiracy that may be far deadlier than anything on Oz. Between survival and sabotage, loyalty and betrayal, The Season Three hurtles toward one when the whole galaxy is watching, who’s really playing the game—and who’s being hunted?
As the days and weeks turn brutal, Oz reveals it isn’t just hostile—it’s intelligent, uncanny, and inhabited. Players feel the pressure as mysterious creatures stalk campsites, steal supplies, kidnap the unwary, and sometimes…help. Back on Earth, the stakes rise for both Tanaka and Keiko with prosecutors circling, enemies closing in, and a financial conspiracy that may be far deadlier than anything on Oz. Between survival and sabotage, loyalty and betrayal, The Season Three hurtles toward one when the whole galaxy is watching, who’s really playing the game—and who’s being hunted?
288 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 25, 2026
About the author
Randy Brown
9 books12 followersAward-winning author of FIRST and NEXT TIME along with the Desert Sun series, which includes SUNSET, SUNDOWN, and SUNBURST.
NEXT TIME is the winner of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award for Fiction, 1st Place in the 8th Annual PenCraft Book Awards for Romance-Fantasy/Sci-Fi, and highlighted as a Must-Read Book for 2024 by Independent Book Review: "Of the many time-travel novels I've read, this is undeniably among my favorites."
FIRST is the Winner of the 18th Annual National Indie Excellence Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, 1st Place in the 8th Annual PenCraft Book Awards for Science Fiction, as well as winner of the Reader Views Literary Award Silver Medal for Best Science Fiction Book of 2023: "The novel that’s going to be a break-out hit this year...a mind-blowing, perception-altering, unputdownable book...truly a novel not to be missed."
NEXT TIME is the winner of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award for Fiction, 1st Place in the 8th Annual PenCraft Book Awards for Romance-Fantasy/Sci-Fi, and highlighted as a Must-Read Book for 2024 by Independent Book Review: "Of the many time-travel novels I've read, this is undeniably among my favorites."
FIRST is the Winner of the 18th Annual National Indie Excellence Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, 1st Place in the 8th Annual PenCraft Book Awards for Science Fiction, as well as winner of the Reader Views Literary Award Silver Medal for Best Science Fiction Book of 2023: "The novel that’s going to be a break-out hit this year...a mind-blowing, perception-altering, unputdownable book...truly a novel not to be missed."
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