Machina

Machina At fifty, Douglas was content to be ordinary. Then alien ships appeared above Earth. There was no declaration of war. No demand for surrender. The invaders simply began to sort the world. Douglas was not a soldier. He was a husband and a father, one man among billions trying to keep his family alive while everything familiar was taken from them. Years later, with the resistance collapsing and nothing left for him to return to, Douglas makes one final choice. It should have killed him. Instead, he wakes beneath unfamiliar stars. Earth is impossibly far away. His body has changed. An ancient artefact has done something to him that no one can explain, and somewhere inside his mind, something else is beginning to wake. Douglas doesn't know what happened to him. He doesn't know why he survived. But he knows where he wants to go. Home. Earth is still there. Still occupied. And somehow, he has to find a way back. And when he does, he intends to take it back. What begins with one man trying to find his way home will become something far larger than he ever intended. Machina is a slow-burn, character-driven science-fiction novel about survival, artificial intelligence, loss, creation, and the consequences of power.