The First Crossing

About the book

2035. Earth is running out of time. As earthquakes, poisoned rain and failing systems push civilisation towards collapse, humanity has one desperate option left: five machines built to send selected survivors thousands of years into the past. Mick has spent years helping build the Australian Jump facility. Now the machine is damaged, the clock is running down, and thousands of people are preparing to leave everything behind. They can take no tools. No books. No technology. Only themselves, their clothes, and the knowledge they can carry. Alongside them is Cove, the artificial intelligence that helped design humanity’s escape — but Cove cannot make the Crossing. When the first transfer finally begins, the impossible happens.