Galactic Crisis (Vanguards Book 2)

Vast and cerebral, “Galactic Crisis” is an epic science fiction novel featuring sentient starships, ancient prophecy, and a dying galaxy—where the one man who spent his life debunking the legends may be the only one who can read them.

The galaxy has a plan.
A mythology professor was not part of it.

Clement Reeber, a mythology professor, built his name debunking the Vanguards—impossibly powerful sentient starships no serious scholar believes in. Then Federation Security delivers him aboard one, a vessel with walls of liquid metal and a crew that glows from within, and a lifetime of certainty collapses in a single moment.

Worse, he carries two ancient Mhyrnian artifacts half the galaxy will kill for—and at the galaxy’s heart, he’s seized by a vision meant only for those born with supernatural gifts. No one can explain why an ordinary academic received it.

But the galaxy is already moving. As the EndStar Procyx devours whole systems, the council pushes the twelve Vanguards toward a computer-modeled strike promising to end the crisis in one blow. Reeber is the lone voice insisting the model has never been tested—and with the strike already in motion, a lifelong skeptic must decide how far he can trust what he cannot yet prove.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Epic space opera and sentient starships
• A skeptic hero swept into ancient prophecy
• Vast, cerebral, idea-driven science fiction
• A galaxy-wide threat and a race against time