Humankind is spread across three thousand light years in a myriad of worlds and habitats known as the Human Entelechy. Linked by a network of wormholes with Earth at its center, it is the world Captain RJ Stone awakens to after a twelve-thousand-year cryogenic suspension.

Stone soon finds himself commanding the maiden voyage of the first spacecraft to break the light speed barrier: the FTL Further. In search of extraterrestrial intelligence, the landing party explores a distant pulsar only to be taken prisoner by the bloodthirsty Iron Mass, a religious sect exiled from the Entelechy millennia before. Now Stone and his crew must escape while they try to solve the riddle of the planet’s network of stone towers that may be proof of the intelligence they’ve come to find.

The first in critically acclaimed author Chris Roberson’s scintillating new series, Further: Beyond the Threshold is a fascinating ride to the farthest reaches of the imagination.

When an alien race arrives to claim ownership of Earth, the X-Men must find a way to repel them in this thrilling adventure novel. The Kh’thon descend upon Earth not as invaders, but as the planet’s rightful owners. They claim to have left millennia ago, and their evidence is startling: not only are their ships manned by Homo sapiens, but their will is enforced by specially augmented humans with phenomenal powers—and each one is a match for any of the X-Men. According to the Kh’thon, they are the original creators of the X-Gene, which allowed them to breed their servants with whatever abilities they required. The Kh’thon believe that Earth belongs to them, as well as every being living on it—human and mutant. Now it’s up to Wolverine, Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler, and the rest of the X-Men—together with Scott Summers, now a member of X-Force—to defeat the Kh’thon before they are enslaved by these would-be alien masters. . . .

Humankind is spread across three thousand light years in a myriad of worlds and habitats known as the Human Entelechy. Linked by a network of wormholes with Earth at its center, it is the world Captain RJ Stone awakens to after a twelve-thousand-year cryogenic suspension.

Stone soon finds himself commanding the maiden voyage of the first spacecraft to break the light speed barrier: the FTL Further. In search of extraterrestrial intelligence, the landing party explores a distant pulsar only to be taken prisoner by the bloodthirsty Iron Mass, a religious sect exiled from the Entelechy millennia before. Now Stone and his crew must escape while they try to solve the riddle of the planet’s network of stone towers that may be proof of the intelligence they’ve come to find.

The first in critically acclaimed author Chris Roberson’s scintillating new series, Further: Beyond the Threshold is a fascinating ride to the farthest reaches of the imagination.

When an alien race arrives to claim ownership of Earth, the X-Men must find a way to repel them in this thrilling adventure novel. The Kh’thon descend upon Earth not as invaders, but as the planet’s rightful owners. They claim to have left millennia ago, and their evidence is startling: not only are their ships manned by Homo sapiens, but their will is enforced by specially augmented humans with phenomenal powers—and each one is a match for any of the X-Men. According to the Kh’thon, they are the original creators of the X-Gene, which allowed them to breed their servants with whatever abilities they required. The Kh’thon believe that Earth belongs to them, as well as every being living on it—human and mutant. Now it’s up to Wolverine, Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler, and the rest of the X-Men—together with Scott Summers, now a member of X-Force—to defeat the Kh’thon before they are enslaved by these would-be alien masters. . . .