Anchor Points Uplift

In a near-future parallel timeline, the offspring of an illegal super soldier program begins having prophetic visions of a hostile first contact that goes disastrously wrong for a politically fractured world. As a young man, he sets out to escape that fate and to alter the future of humankind, though the attempt may have been doomed from the start. If he succeeds, the price may be steep.

Ten years after the nations of Earth unite under one world federal government, the United Terran Republic Navy pursues the last remnants of the alien threat through its strongholds in the asteroid belt. What the navy discovers could upend history and determine humanity's chances of survival. The novel asks how much of a life is shaped by choice and how much by fate, and it asks whether Joshua Warden is a tyrant, a traitor, a prophet, or a savior.

The story unfolds across two timelines that will converge at the conclusion of a planned trilogy. It combines large-scale fleet battles, tense boarding actions led by the Archangel mech suit, car chases, high-level conspiracies, and high-stakes base infiltrations with romance, humor, and political drama. As the timelines intertwine, the book follows humanity's first hard lessons about the sacrifices needed to survive in a hostile galaxy, along with the story of the man who gave everything so that his species would have a fighting chance.

The novel's central idea is that the age of nations has ended and the uplift of mankind has begun.