Every ruin tells a story

Across the vast expanse of space and time lie the remnants of civilizations that reached for the stars?and vanished.

Silent cities carved into asteroids. Derelict megastructures drifting between galaxies. Temples buried beneath the red sands of dead worlds.

This book contains 13 bold tales of humanity's encounters with these cosmic ruins. Think Indiana Jones meets Arthur C. Clarke.

Follow determined xenoarchaeologists as they reconstruct the fall of an ancient alien civilization, or track seasoned salvage crews discovering terrible truths in abandoned waystations.

These stories capture the thrill of discovery while grappling with the humbling reality of our place in the cosmos.

Includes the following short stories:

• "Blood Halo" by M.G. Herron
• "Captain Thurgood and the Chamber of Whispers" by Benjamin Wallace
• "Perihelion" by Robert Appleton
• "Harbor" by Luke Mitchell [Novella]
• "Curios" by Ginger Booth
• "The Cathedral of the Unfinished God" by Pierino Gattei
• "What the Walls Remember" by Peter J. Foote
• "Sunrise" by James Pyles
• "Hole Cards" by Michael LaVoice
• "The City of Glass" by Jeannette Bedard
• "The Organ in the Ice" by D. C. Wynters
• "Ascension to Extinction" by Dawn Ross
• "Zero Sum Salvage" by Keyla Damaer