When the hyper-radioactive asteroid Nova-10 turns Earth's sky a permanent, incandescent violet, the last fourteen thousand survivors are sealed aboard the International Space Station. Among them is Dr Elias Cook, a physicist turned reluctant botan...
When the hyper-radioactive asteroid Nova-10 turns Earth's sky a permanent, incandescent violet, the last fourteen thousand survivors are sealed aboard the International Space Station. Among them is Dr Elias Cook, a physicist turned reluctant botanist, the only man keeping the oxygen flowing, and the only man willing to do what survival demands, no matter the cost. But survival, aboard a dying station above a dying world, requires choices that erase the line between saviour and monster. When a signal arrives from the Moon, and a NASA cosmologist named Maya, buried in the manifest as Subject 19, begins hearing frequencies no instrument sent, the greatest threat is not the radiation below. It is the truth about who sent the signal. And what they expect in return. The Last Manifest is a debut speculative fiction novel asking the oldest question in the newest language: what are we willing to become to survive?