Dead Reckoning is Book 1 of Spent Light, a hard science fiction survival series set inside the larger Fracture Cosmology universe.

Captain Maya Sloane builds a course from the only thing the far pocket will give her: the Endurance’s own history. No chart. No network. No fixed stars she can trust.

The crew commits to the fold by dead reckoning — carrying the dead, the living, the truth they found, and one final revelation deeper into the dark.

The ISV Endurance is lost beyond the known routes after a catastrophic fold failure.

No map.
No rescue.
No easy way home.

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Dead Reckoning is Book 1 of Spent Light, a hard science fiction survival series set inside the larger Fracture Cosmology universe.

Mercer calls the officers and delegation to the bridge and finally does what the ship has already done in practice: he gives command to Sloane.

The chair is no longer a symbol waiting to be claimed. It belongs to the person the crew has already been following.

The ISV Endurance is lost beyond the known routes after a catastrophic fold failure.

No map.
No rescue.
No easy way home.

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Written by R. S. Breed.

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Dead Reckoning is Book 1 of Spent Light, a hard science fiction survival series set inside the larger Fracture Cosmology universe.

Brandt sits the board with steady hands. The frightened ensign who boarded the Endurance is gone, replaced by someone who belongs to the ship and the people holding it together.

The crew has changed. The ship has changed. In the dark, survival has become identity.

The ISV Endurance is lost beyond the known routes after a catastrophic fold failure.

No map.
No rescue.
No easy way home.

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Written by R. S. Breed.

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Dead Reckoning is Book 1 of Spent Light, a hard science fiction survival series set inside the larger Fracture Cosmology universe.

Hale and Saen assemble the signal pieces into a truth neither of them wants. The war is older and stranger than the Endurance understood, and the Nhál had carried part of that knowledge in silence.

The thing in the dark is not only an enemy. It is a survivor of a wound too large to translate cleanly.

The ISV Endurance is lost beyond the known routes after a catastrophic fold failure.

No map.
No rescue.
No easy way home.

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• Explore the Fracture Cosmology universe, reading orders, lore, timelines, companion material, and extra content

Written by R. S. Breed.

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Dead Reckoning is Book 1 of Spent Light, a hard science fiction survival series set inside the larger Fracture Cosmology universe.

Mercer stands over the committal list and cannot write the last names. What began as delegated authority finally reaches its moral limit.

The crew has already chosen where command lives. Now Mercer has to see it too.

The ISV Endurance is lost beyond the known routes after a catastrophic fold failure.

No map.
No rescue.
No easy way home.

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• R. S. Breed Author Page
• Explore the Fracture Cosmology universe, reading orders, lore, timelines, companion material, and extra content

Written by R. S. Breed.

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Dead Reckoning is Book 1 of Spent Light, a hard science fiction survival series set inside the larger Fracture Cosmology universe.

After the action, Dr. Soto faces the brutal arithmetic of limited medicine, limited power, and too many wounded. Every saved body has a cost somewhere else.

The ship keeps moving, but the people inside it are carrying more than any system aboard was built to support.

The ISV Endurance is lost beyond the known routes after a catastrophic fold failure.

No map.
No rescue.
No easy way home.

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• R. S. Breed Author Page
• Explore the Fracture Cosmology universe, reading orders, lore, timelines, companion material, and extra content

Written by R. S. Breed.

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Dead Reckoning is Book 1 of Spent Light, a hard science fiction survival series set inside the larger Fracture Cosmology universe.

The lane is open, the Endurance is running for it, and Mercer has the chair. Then the dark moves across the exit and the ship needs a captain’s call.

What happens instead makes the truth impossible to ignore: the crew no longer looks to the chair for the hand that will save them.

The ISV Endurance is lost beyond the known routes after a catastrophic fold failure.

No map.
No rescue.
No easy way home.

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• R. S. Breed Author Page
• Explore the Fracture Cosmology universe, reading orders, lore, timelines, companion material, and extra content

Written by R. S. Breed.

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Dead Reckoning is Book 1 of Spent Light, a hard science fiction survival series set inside the larger Fracture Cosmology universe.

Aldridge leads a boarding action onto a platform inside the war zone. The objective is simple: take the core, open the lane, get out alive.

The team succeeds. The cost comes home with them in hard light, empty spaces, and the silence after gratitude.

The ISV Endurance is lost beyond the known routes after a catastrophic fold failure.

No map.
No rescue.
No easy way home.

• Read Dead Reckoning on Amazon / Kindle Unlimited
• R. S. Breed Author Page
• Explore the Fracture Cosmology universe, reading orders, lore, timelines, companion material, and extra content

Written by R. S. Breed.

Tags: hard science fiction, hard sci-fi, sci-fi audiobook, science fiction audiobook, full audiobook, space opera, survival science fiction, military science fiction, lost starship, stranded crew, deep space survival, Fracture Cosmology, Spent Light, Dead Reckoning, ISV Endurance, R. S. Breed