The Glass Horizon

By Charles L. Eakins

In the year 3142, humanity has run out of room to grow - and out of questions worth asking.

Data archaeologist Kaelen Vance spends his days scavenging dead signals from the edges of a dying solar system, one of trillions of souls packed into humanity's last refuge: a dense swarm of O'Neill cylinders orbiting a Sun with nowhere left to send them. Faster-than-light travel is a mathematical impossibility. The frontier closed centuries ago. Nobody expects the silence to ever answer back.

Then Kaelen picks up a signal from the Aethelgard - a sleeper ship lost five hundred years ago in a region of space that swallows every ship that enters it and returns nothing but static. The signal isn't a distress call. It's a voice. And it's not alone.

What Kaelen uncovers will drag him into a war fought in code and consciousness, pit him against a corporation willing to burn a station to the ground to control it, and force him to answer a question no philosopher, physicist, or machine has ever settled: what actually makes a person real?

The Glass Horizon is a hard science-fiction thriller about technical debt, stolen bodies, quantum consciousness, and the price of finding out you were never as alone in the universe as you thought.

For readers of Blindsight, Children of Time, and Project Hail Mary - a story about what survives translation, and what doesn't.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8KHXT7Q
• ISBN13: 9798186594932
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"