To be or not to be. For Senator Mbayo and 11 billion Areans, the question is literal.

When a single warship annihilates the International Space Station in minutes, the

balance of power across the Helion system collapses overnight. At its centre stands

General Shade, a brilliant, ruthless commander leading the breakaway Proximian

Navy, and a man driven as much by vengeance as by ideology. As Tellus scrambles

to respond, Mbayo finds herself caught between a collapsing Union, moral

compromise and a future she did not bargain for. Nes Vilsak, heir to the Union's

political machinery, is forced to choose between loyalty and conscience when the

cost of inaction becomes impossible to ignore. What begins as a territorial conflict

rapidly spirals into something far more dangerous: a reckoning with the Union's past,

its abuses of power, and the crimes buried beneath its veneer of stability. Spanning

planetary invasions, covert negotiations and the intimate consequences of political

violence, Vestibules: False Axis is an epic science fiction novel about empire,

inheritance and the dangers of blind vengeance.

A life for a life.

An eye for an eye.

Welcome, to the world of the blind.

Published: 26 September 2026

Page count: 278

Book dimensions: 5.06" x 7.81"

Cover finish: matte

Interior colour: black and white on groundwood paper

ISBN:

Paperback -  978-1-918606-26-3

eBook -  978-1-918606- 27-0

To be or not to be. For Senator Mbayo and 11 billion Areans, the question is literal.

When a single warship annihilates the International Space Station in minutes, the

balance of power across the Helion system collapses overnight. At its centre stands

General Shade, a brilliant, ruthless commander leading the breakaway Proximian

Navy, and a man driven as much by vengeance as by ideology. As Tellus scrambles

to respond, Mbayo finds herself caught between a collapsing Union, moral

compromise and a future she did not bargain for. Nes Vilsak, heir to the Union's

political machinery, is forced to choose between loyalty and conscience when the

cost of inaction becomes impossible to ignore. What begins as a territorial conflict

rapidly spirals into something far more dangerous: a reckoning with the Union's past,

its abuses of power, and the crimes buried beneath its veneer of stability. Spanning

planetary invasions, covert negotiations and the intimate consequences of political

violence, Vestibules: False Axis is an epic science fiction novel about empire,

inheritance and the dangers of blind vengeance.

A life for a life.

An eye for an eye.

Welcome, to the world of the blind.

Published: 26 September 2026

Page count: 278

Book dimensions: 5.06" x 7.81"

Cover finish: matte

Interior colour: black and white on groundwood paper

ISBN:

Paperback -  978-1-918606-26-3

eBook -  978-1-918606- 27-0