The Brumby Incident

By Richard Monk

The Brumby Incident, the stark prequel to the Rubina's Veil trilogy, is a slow-burn science fiction novella that reveals the buried catastrophe beneath humanity's long struggle for survival.

When an unexplained illness begins spreading through Brumby Terraforming Research Station, Chief Administrator Terrance Bradley fights to preserve order while Senior Medical Officer Dr. Ravi Issar confronts a disease seemingly without pattern or cure. At the same time, New Haven's governor Evelyn West makes decisions whose impact will reach far beyond the colony itself.

What begins at Brumby does not end there. It becomes the foundation of everything that follows in the Rubina's Veil trilogy: the fear, the trauma, the failures, and the policies that will shape human worlds many light-years away.

For readers of Adrian Tchaikovsky, Jeff VanderMeer, and Michael Crichton, The Brumby Incident explores institutional collapse, unseen consequences, and the quiet horror of a system willing to sacrifice some for the survival of the many, only to discover too late what that choice has set in motion.

This is not a story of containment. It's a story of precedent-of how something that begins in one place can shape the fate of worlds.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GS4X4FCR
• ISBN13: 9798278598688
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"