When Australian SAS soldiers Rosco Martin and Fergie Moore uncover an impossible device beneath the Outback, they trigger a signal buried for sixty-five million years.
Across the world, US archaeologist Dr Elizabeth Jones discovers the same symbols on an artifact recovered beneath...
Cities burn. Survivors hide beneath ruined streets. Resistance cells whisper through the dark under one name: The Signal.
Across the universe, Sergeant Rosco Martin and the surviving crew of The Ayda reach Andromeda, searching for sanctuary. What they find is impossible: a...
The war was designed. That was only the first truth.
Earth is in ruins. An uneasy armistice asks its survivors to trust the soldiers who burned their cities. On both sides, there are people determined to keep fighting.
Rosco and Janelle Martin want their children to have a life beyond the next evacuation. Alongside their closest mate Fergie and...
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Shaun Rigby
I’ve spent more than 25 years telling stories for a living, first as a journalist, then in public affairs, politics, crisis communications and strategic media.
I’ve ghostwritten for senior politicians and CEOs, had work published in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Guardian, won two Queensland media awards, and helped manage the national media response to the Beaconsfield mine disaster.
But fiction was always the story I wanted to tell for myself.
The Last Hope began as a standalone science fiction thriller about survival, ancient secrets and alien war. But the more I wrote, the bigger the world became. The characters, the mythology and the unanswered questions demanded more than one book.
That became The Origin Series.
It brings together the things I love most in fiction: military action, political tension, ancient mysteries, alien civilisations, flawed heroes and the question that sits underneath it all: what would humanity sacrifice for one last chance to survive?
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I’ve spent more than 25 years telling stories for a living, first as a journalist, then in public affairs, politics, crisis communications and strategic media.
I’ve ghostwritten for senior politicians and CEOs, had work published in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Guardian, won two Queensland media awards, and helped manage the national media response to the Beaconsfield mine disaster.
