Aleyara's Descent

Infinite Dimensions. Endless Possibilities. Universal Questions.

Across multiple realities and millennia of past and future history, heroes both human and otherwise challenge their limits and brave the unknown in pursuit of the fundamental truths of the universe-and each other.

From bestselling author Christopher L. Bennett comes Aleyara's Descent, eleven tales portraying the search for understanding, connection, and hope that unites seekers of all species, eras, and realities.

  • In an alien past, four impetuous youths brave a forbidden realm to discover their world's true nature.

  • A first contact between a UFO believer and a real alien doesn't go the way either one expects.

  • Scientists battling a kaiju invasion must overcome the mistrust of the insular enclave they strive to protect.

  • A government agent's drive to safeguard the future hits a speed bump when she questions a suspected time traveler.

  • The inheritor of a fabled superhero name must prove herself by solving the one mystery her predecessor never could.

These and other diverse tales, many in print for the first time, bring a multiverse of aliens, monsters, time travelers, and heroes to life with plausibility and sensitivity.

Includes the brand-new tale "Nilly's Choice," a companion story to the Arachne novels.


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Aleyara's Descent

Infinite Dimensions. Endless Possibilities. Universal Questions.

Across multiple realities and millennia of past and future history, heroes both human and otherwise challenge their limits and brave the unknown in pursuit of the fundamental truths of the universe-and each other.

From bestselling author Christopher L. Bennett comes Aleyara's Descent, eleven tales portraying the search for understanding, connection, and hope that unites seekers of all species, eras, and realities.

  • In an alien past, four impetuous youths brave a forbidden realm to discover their world's true nature.

  • A first contact between a UFO believer and a real alien doesn't go the way either one expects.

  • Scientists battling a kaiju invasion must overcome the mistrust of the insular enclave they strive to protect.

  • A government agent's drive to safeguard the future hits a speed bump when she questions a suspected time traveler.

  • The inheritor of a fabled superhero name must prove herself by solving the one mystery her predecessor never could.

These and other diverse tales, many in print for the first time, bring a multiverse of aliens, monsters, time travelers, and heroes to life with plausibility and sensitivity.

Includes the brand-new tale "Nilly's Choice," a companion story to the Arachne novels.


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Aleyara's Descent

Aleyara's Descent

by Christopher L. Bennett
Aleyara's Descent

Aleyara's Descent

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Overview

Infinite Dimensions. Endless Possibilities. Universal Questions.

Across multiple realities and millennia of past and future history, heroes both human and otherwise challenge their limits and brave the unknown in pursuit of the fundamental truths of the universe-and each other.

From bestselling author Christopher L. Bennett comes Aleyara's Descent, eleven tales portraying the search for understanding, connection, and hope that unites seekers of all species, eras, and realities.

  • In an alien past, four impetuous youths brave a forbidden realm to discover their world's true nature.

  • A first contact between a UFO believer and a real alien doesn't go the way either one expects.

  • Scientists battling a kaiju invasion must overcome the mistrust of the insular enclave they strive to protect.

  • A government agent's drive to safeguard the future hits a speed bump when she questions a suspected time traveler.

  • The inheritor of a fabled superhero name must prove herself by solving the one mystery her predecessor never could.

These and other diverse tales, many in print for the first time, bring a multiverse of aliens, monsters, time travelers, and heroes to life with plausibility and sensitivity.

Includes the brand-new tale "Nilly's Choice," a companion story to the Arachne novels.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781956463668
Publisher: eSpec Books
Publication date: 07/01/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 212
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Christopher L. Bennett is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, with a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in History from the University of Cincinnati. A fan of science and science fiction since age five, he has spent the past two decades selling original short fiction to magazines such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact (home of his "Hub" series of comedy adventures), BuzzyMag, and Galaxy's Edge. Since 2003, he has been one of Pocket Books' most prolific and popular authors of Star Trek tie-in fiction, including the epic Next Generation prequel The Buried Age, the Enterprise -- Rise of the Federation series, and the Original Series prequel The Captain's Oath. He has also written two Marvel Comics novels, X-Men: Watchers on the Walls and Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder. His original novel Only Superhuman, perhaps the first hard science fiction superhero novel, was voted Library Journal's SF/Fantasy Debut of the Month for October 2012. He has three collections reprinting his original short fiction, Among the Wild Cybers: Tales Beyond the Superhuman from eSpec Books (containing an original Only Superhuman prequel novelette) and Hub Space: Tales from the Greater Galaxy and Crimes of the Hub from Mystique Press.

Table of Contents

1. The Moving Finger Writes

2. Abductive Reasoning

3. What Slender Threads

4. Conventional Powers

5. Early Warning Systems

6. The Monsters We Make

7. Legacy Hero

8. Though Worlds Divide Us

9. Nilly's Choice

10. Growth Industry

11. Aleyara's Descent


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