https://wadefrancis.com/books/ Recent content in Books on Wade Francis | Science Fiction Author Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 https://wadefrancis.com/books/whispers-in-the-dark/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100 https://wadefrancis.com/books/whispers-in-the-dark/ When a research team detects an anomaly hidden deep within spaceborne data, it challenges assumptions that were never meant to be questioned. What begins as a focused scientific investigation quickly escalates—drawing in institutions, reshaping priorities, and exposing how fragile humanity’s understanding of progress really is. As new possibilities emerge, so do unsettling patterns. Safeguards shift. Systems adapt. And questions meant to bring clarity only deepen the unease. Whispers in the Dark is a hard science-fiction thriller about discovery without permission, the cost of acceleration, and the quiet terror of realising the future may already be in motion. https://wadefrancis.com/books/calculus-of-trust/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://wadefrancis.com/books/calculus-of-trust/ The first contact was quiet. No ultimatum. No invasion. Just an offer—knowledge, freely given, with outcomes too clean to question. A year later, the systems built on that offer are running. The approvals are legitimate. The decisions are correct. Nobody is lying. The problem isn’t what was built. It’s what was built into it. Calculus of Trust is a hard science-fiction thriller about the difference between control and the appearance of it, the cost of knowing what no one else does, and what you become when the only move left is the one that can’t be taken back.