Sebastian Reth

On the final day of humanity's third Mars mission, geologist Noa Bannister makes a discovery buried four billion years deep in the basalt of an ancient Martian crater — a perfect sphere. Unmarked. Impossibly hard. Utterly inexplicable by any known science.

Alone on the surface of a dying planet, Noa begins to uncover the truth about what the sphere actually is — something that answers the only question that has ever truly mattered: where did we come from?

But four billion years of silence is about to become very loud. The Americans want it classified. The Russians didn't come to share. And somewhere in orbit, a clandestine military order — codenamed Yellow Sparrow — has just been issued.

In the scarred wilderness of the Coromandel’s Broken Hills, a weekend tramp turns into a nightmare. Survivors discover they have stumbled upon the ultimate gated community: a secret bunker complex for billionaires hidden deep within ancient gold mine shafts.

Trapped in the dense bush with no signal and ruthless private security forces closing in, the hikers must stop being victims and start acting like prey if they want to survive the night.

Julian Miller is an expert at finding the cracks in other people’s balance sheets. But when his Auckland investment firm collapses, he is forced to flee to his only remaining asset: an isolated bach on the cliffs of Onemana.

In the quiet wards of Thames Hospital, the "Protocol" AI is sleek, silent, and supposedly infallible. But when a patient is found dead in a locked room, the system's cold logic points to a terrifying conclusion.

Drawing on evolutionary psychology, stoic philosophy, and hard-won experience, this practical toolkit will help you Hack Your Survival Brain and overcome "Leisure Guilt."