From Beyond
From Beyond • Book 1
by Jasper T. Scott, Nathan Hystad
Why You'll Love This
Two men closing in on the same impossible truth — one in orbit, one underwater — and neither knows the other exists yet.
- Great if you want: first-contact sci-fi with a grounded, procedural feel
- The experience: dual-POV tension that builds steadily toward a convergence
- The writing: Scott and Hystad keep prose lean and momentum constant — no meandering
- Skip if: you want answers fast — this is setup-heavy as book one
About This Book
When a routine supply mission to Mars suddenly becomes something far more urgent, and an artifact hunter tracking strange relics across Europe finds himself on a collision course with answers humanity may not be ready for, the question stops being are we alone and starts being what happens now that we know. From Beyond builds its tension from the inside out — not through chaos, but through the dawning realization that the truth has been kept, shaped, and weaponized long before ordinary people ever had a chance to ask the right questions. The stakes feel genuinely enormous without ever losing sight of the two very human men caught at the center of it all.
Scott and Hystad divide their storytelling across two distinct narrative threads — the grounded procedural tension of a military commander operating without full information, and the more freewheeling pursuit of a relic hunter following a trail that keeps widening. The contrast gives the book real propulsive momentum, each storyline making the other more urgent. The prose is clean and purposeful, never slowing to admire itself, which keeps the pages moving. For readers who want first-contact fiction that earns its revelations rather than rushing them, this opening installment delivers.
