Length3h 39m
About this audiobook
The dead worlds aren't staying dead.
Rian Vale and his crew reach Vigils End — a quarantined, ash-gray world with a waking alien relay buried under its equatorial scar — only to find the Ordinate already drilling and the Triarchy already building a case file. Two empires. One site. And a network that stopped being local the moment it started answering.
When a memory shard from the vault writes itself through Rian's hands, what he finds isn't system failure. It's a signature — the same deliberate wound, repeated across dozens of worlds, engineered to look like ordinary collapse.
The Fenru network didn't die. It was made to die.
Extinction Margin is Book III of the Starwake Saga — a space opera about a crew with a broken ship, a damaged AI that knows more than it should, and a discovery too large to run from. The chain is visible. The relay is live. And someone built all of this to make sure no one survived long enough to compare notes.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length3 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title
10The Midpoint Fire
2Dedication
11Ashfall Reach
3Epigraph
12Cut Authority
4Anchorage of Borrowed Metal
13The Cost of Captain
5Ash in the Coupler
14The Corridor Heart
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6The Burn Charter
15Burning Alliance
7Seven-Blue Burns
16After the Fire
8Command Voice
17About the Author
9Weather Lattice
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