Martin Irvo Jaroš

Real physics. Invented worlds. Difficult people.

Cover of Through: a ship's engine ring burning cyan against deep space, with a planet beyond.

Hard science fiction · Debut novel

Through

A Story of Converging Trajectories

18 Scorpii HD 146233 G2 Va 46.1 ly

Publishing November 2026

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As worlds converge

Dan Acosta wakes from cryosleep to the smell of rot. Three hundred and fifty-two years have passed. His crewmates are dead. The generation ship Able, once home to thousands, is now hurtling toward the star that was supposed to be their salvation.

Elder Gram has spent nearly two centuries building a fragile civilization on Big Sister. His body is failing, his retirement long overdue. But when the Able is detected bearing down on the system, he may be the only person stubborn enough—and expendable enough—to do something about it.

Alexi flies on instinct. Raised on a frozen outer moon, she learned young that following protocol gets people killed. Now she’s been pulled from cargo runs and pointed at a mission that makes no sense. Until it does.

Their trajectories converge as the Sisters’ Kiss approaches: a once-in-a-lifetime gravitational event that will reshape the heavens. What follows will demand more of all three than any of them believed they had left to give.

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Cover of Carolyn, the prequel novelette to Through.

Someone saw it coming

Carolyn

Carolyn Abernathy designs settlements on the Moon. Now she has been asked to help design a society for the stars. The trouble is, she has done the math. Long before the ship reaches its new world, the people aboard will tear each other apart, and there is no piece of engineering that fixes human nature.

No one who could stop it wants to listen. The last expert who tried was buried under a smear campaign.

The launch clock is ticking, and it does not care who is right.

Carolyn is a prequel novelette. It is free, and it is yours for an email address.