IT DID NOT COME FOR US: The Last Orbit
by Vaultkeeper
About the book
Thirteen-year-old Leo Mercer notices a star dimming. What begins as an amateur astronomical observation becomes the discovery of something impossible: a living structure larger than the Sun moving through the Solar System. Humanity gives it a name because there is no useful word for what it is. It does not attack Earth. It does not threaten us, communicate with us or appear to know that we exist. Its gravity alone is enough to rewrite planetary orbits — and Earth is going to be captured. As scientists race to understand it and governments decide who gets a future, humanity confronts an extinction event with no enemy to defeat and nobody to blame. IT DID NOT COME FOR US is hard science fiction and cosmic horror about survival, scale and the terrifying possibility that the end of the world might not mean anything at all.
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Available as an ebook and in paperback. Paperback ISBN 9798172885037.
About the author
Vaultkeeper writes fiction about the things we build our lives around — identity, certainty, meaning, ambition, faith, power and love — and what happens when they stop being true. Blending psychological fiction, cosmic horror, hard science and existential philosophy, his work puts ordinary people into situations that force them to confront uncomfortable truths about themselves and the world around them. His stories treat humanity as fragile rather than inevitable. There are no heroes here, only people trying to understand what is happening before there is nothing left to understand.
