G. S. Jennsen

The fleet rushed to meet the invaders at the edge of the solar system upon their arrival. Every countermeasure was deployed to stall the enemy’s advance—their forces held nothing back.

No soldier who fought on the battlefield today would ever return home.

With an unstoppable foe advancing on the Elakri homeworld, its leaders face an impossible choice: stand, fight and die, or risk everything on one daring, impossible chance to survive the enemy’s onslaught. But when terrorists kidnap the scientist at the heart of their plan, a retired spy must confront the demons of his past in order to give his people that chance.

For readers of the AMARANTHE series, Extinguishing the Stars is a prequel to “The Universe Within,” taking place some 9,000 years before the novel.

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Extinguishing The Stars was originally published in The Expanding Universe: Volume 10, edited by Craig Martelle.

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