Golden Blue

In the year 2030, a spacecraft disappears above Mars.Not a crash. Not a malfunction. A disappearance.Arthur Lawrence is four years old. Arthur goes to school, finishes first in his class without even trying, and asks questions that make adults go quiet.Max is younger than anyone else in his university lecture hall. He notices things he shouldn’t be able to notice—and doesn’t make a fuss about them.An advanced, unseen civilization has been pulling the strings from the shadows, meticulously engineering a collision course between Earth and an unknown cosmic force. They didn't do it out of malice, hunger, or survival.Follow the journey of two exceptional minds from their childhood, through the rigorous training of the military academy, to the catastrophic psychological breaking point of humanity's true First Contact.War is coming. And the rules aren't human.