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Preview prerelease of Chapters 1 - 6 • Hard SF first-contact thriller with techno-procedural suspense. A The Martian-grade craft meets Arrival-style rule puzzles; no hand-waving, crisp stakes, humane restraint. Perfect for readers of Watts, Crouch, Tchaikovsky, Weir; viewers drawn by Netflix's 3 Body Problem. Back of Book Copy: Far from Earth, a mining ship pings a ring that should be dead. It answers with headlines: markets that will crash; storms that will land; timers that do not miss. The rules are brutal and simple: output only; no queries; clocks are sovereign. When the first anchor reaches zero, the world proves the relay right. A joint task force locks the site. Custody passes to Daedalus. Mirrors roll. Hoods go up. Every word is logged. And then the relay prints a new line that turns procedure into a countdown no checklist can hold: CASUALTY IN ORBITAL INCIDENT IDENTIFIED: DR MARA VEGA. To save a life the crew cannot ask the system a single thing. To keep humanity calm they must remain boring while private actors, politics, and the sheer weight of truth press in. The Relay is a hard-science thriller about proof, restraint, and the cost of being first to hear the future. If the artefact only speaks in headlines, what do you risk to change the story.