Multitude

Vaughn and Angela survived the events of Solitude to find themselves the only people left on Earth — and now Angela is determined to find out what happened to everyone else, pulling Vaughn across the Mediterranean and into central Europe toward something so large it shouldn't be possible to miss. The second Dimension Space novel takes the series to its conceptual center: not just empty survival but a genuine attempt to understand a machine of cosmic scale and reverse whatever it set in motion.

R.C. Bray narrates with the quality that makes him the genre's most reliable voice: he takes the science fiction premise completely seriously while keeping the character relationship at the center of the emotional experience. His Vaughn is gruff and skeptical in exactly the right proportion, and the escalating reveals of what Geneva contains benefits from Bray's ability to deliver exposition without losing momentum. At just under 10 hours, Multitude is a worthy sequel to an acclaimed series debut.