A civil war is all but inevitable. Humans just got in the way.
A deadly pulse has eradicated the humans on Earth. The survivors are few, but they didn't wake up empty-handed. Stranded with "GREM capsules" that allow them to gamify their biology and level up their stats, a few stubborn humans are about to become the universe's biggest headache.
In D.C., pill-popping political aide Casey teams up with a disgraced alien operative and a newly sentient military dog to weaponize interstellar red tape against the Galactic Council. Meanwhile, in Montana, survivalists Kevin and Daisy use their new LitRPG-style upgrades to hunt alien beasts, inadvertently catching the eye of Erebus, the terrifying, centuries-old Warlord of the Milky Way. As Kevin and Daisy fall into an explicit, world-altering romance with their alien captor, the Council panics. Armed with robotic eyes and ancient warlord girlfriends, these survivors must use everything at their disposal to save the remnants of humanity - before the universe finishes the job. SOL-3 is a violent, spicy, LitRPG satire about leadership, conservation, and making love to aliens.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Feral, filthy, and smarter than it has any right to be
SOL-3 doesn’t ease you in — it drops a pulse-wiped Earth in your lap and dares you to keep up. Between D.C. political chaos and Montana survivalists gaming out their own upgraded biology, Hayduke builds a world that’s angry, horny, funny, and weirdly tender all at once. It’s satire with teeth — skewering bureaucracy and power without ever losing its pulse — grim where it needs to be, unhinged where it wants to be, and never once boring. Devoured this in one sitting and immediately wanted more of this godforsaken, delightful galaxy.