The Last Station — Blair Howard

What if humanity was never meant to evolve-only awaken?Half a million years ago, the galaxy's most advanced species vanished, leaving behind only whispers-crystalline stations buried in space and strange signals no one could decode. Until now.In the year 2287, Commander Frances Drake and her crew on the TSV Hawking discover a transmission older than civilization itself. Drawn to its impossible precision and ancient rhythm, they trigger a chain reaction that uncovers Earth's true heritage-and makes them targets in a war that never ended.The Predecessors engineered humanity for a reason. The Enemy, once defeated, has returned to finish what they started. And deep within the quantum fields of forgotten stations, our future is waking up.Fans of Peter F. Hamilton, Cixin Liu, and Alastair Reynolds will love this cerebral, high-stakes thriller of alien technology, genetic secrets, and galactic survival.The Last Station is Book One in The Predecessors series-a bold hard science fiction epic where consciousness, evolution, and warfare collide.