Ascension

A remote outpost stationed at the extreme edge of the solar system goes silent. The determined commander and his rescue fleet must find out what happened to the outpost and the thirty lives on it. As they reach their destination, what they don't find startles them all. But what they do find forces them to rewrite all of human history. And now they are faced by a terrifying new enemy. A deep space science fiction story by author Rann Murray. Cover image: NASA image of the Black Widow Pulsar forming its bow shock wave as it moves through the Milky Way at one million kilometers per hour.

A remote outpost stationed at the extreme edge of the solar system goes silent. The determined commander and his rescue fleet must find out what happened to the outpost and the thirty lives on it. As they reach their destination, what they don't find startles them all. But what they do find forces them to rewrite all of human history. And now they are faced by a terrifying new enemy. A deep space science fiction story by author Rann Murray. Cover image: NASA image of the Black Widow Pulsar forming its bow shock wave as it moves through the Milky Way at one million kilometers per hour.

As a kid, Rann Murray's parents signed him up for a subscription to the Science Fiction Book Club, bought him a Robert the Robot toy with a fancy control module, and then got him a telescope. So how could a spoiled brat like that not end up writing science fiction? His background as a computer store owner and astrophotographer with a lifelong interest in science sprang from those early days. Rann graduated from Michigan State University and lives in the Great Lakes State with his wife and three spoiled cats. Rann's short stories have appeared in Bewildering Stories and Small Town Anthology.