Stone Stories

For five thousand years, a dying civilization from the Virgo Cluster has been making the impossible journey to Earth. Not as conquerors. As desperate survivors, carrying with them secrets as old as the stars.

But Earth was not ready.

Not in the river valleys of ancient Mesopotamia, where the crew of the Mesolite arrived to find a species still learning what bronze was for. Not in the shadow of the pyramids, where the Allusion walked among the builders of Giza. Not along the emerging Silk Road, where the crew of the Iolite discovered that the most powerful force in the universe was not technology, but the human desire to connect.

Each crew knew they would never go home. Each generation of these silver-skinned travelers from sixty million light-years away gave everything they had to nudge a young, stubborn, brilliant, and sometimes catastrophically reckless species toward a single destination: the moment when humanity would finally be capable of doing what needed to be done.

STONE STORIES tells the stories they never put in the history books. The stories behind the pyramids and the Silk Road and Stonehenge and every other mystery that human civilization has spent millennia trying to explain. The stories of beings who left behind markers buried in the earth, waiting for the moment humanity would discover it had never been alone.

For readers who have already met Adam Hunter in PULSAR, the Stone Stories are the missing chapters of a history that was always hiding in plain sight. For readers discovering the Infinite Earth universe for the first time, they are the beginning of everything.