Dr. Brad Whitfield was sent to Mars to disappear.
Disgraced, isolated, and forgotten, he spends his days alone in a desolate observatory, scanning the heavens in silence-until his custom telescope detects something impossible. A vast cosmic void is spreading through space, not destroying reality, but erasing it, beginning with a quiet town on Earth that history itself is already forgetting.
When Brad sends his data to Space Command, his warnings are dismissed as delusions brought on by isolation. But from millions of miles away, he watches in horror as the entity unwrites existence-devouring memories, rewriting the past, and warping the laws of physics around him. Even his own thoughts begin to fracture as the void turns its attention toward Mars.
With his life support failing and reality unraveling, Brad is locked in a desperate race against an intelligence that feeds on time itself. To stop it, he may need to remain conscious long enough to bear witness-because once no one is left to observe reality, it ceases to exist.
And the void is very close now.
The cosmic dread and human stakes of Stephen King
The relentless pacing and high-concept suspense of Dean Koontz
Existential sci-fi horror where reality itself is the enemy
Isolated protagonists facing universe-ending threats
From the author of The Algorithmic Serpent