{"product_id":"the-vanishing-astronauts-9798247814924","title":"The Vanishing Astronauts","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael James\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Thrillers - Technological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe International Space Station passes silently over the dark side of Earth. Inside, astronauts float through routine tasks, trading casual banter with mission control-until they all stop at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMid-sentence. Mid-motion. Mid-breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey turn their heads toward a point in space no camera can see and freeze, eyes open, serene... listening to something no one on Earth can hear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty minutes later, they're gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo airlock. No alarms. One frame: a living crew. The next: empty modules, drifting tools, a slow tumble of a velcro pouch in weightless air. As if the people were removed from reality without disturbing the room around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the exact second the last astronaut vanishes, deep-space antennas pick up a new signal. Not a message. A sequence. Coordinates. Gravitational weak points. A map of how to reach into Earth's orbital web and start twisting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCassia Wynn, a space agency liaison trained to manage disaster with calm, clinical language, is dragged into a crisis that defies every protocol. Alongside Dr. Rowan Pike-a conspiracy-tainted astrophysicist who's been shouting about buried anomalies for years-she uncovers an unthinkable truth: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ISS isn't just a station. It's a door.\u003cbr\u003eThe vanished astronauts aren't missing. They're being used.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the signal isn't talking to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's configuring us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs satellites begin to drift off-script and the sky itself starts to respond, Cassia and Rowan must decide how far they're willing to go to fight something that never sends a ship, never fires a weapon, and doesn't seem to care whether humanity understands what's happening-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly that we learn to be very, very quiet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of hard science thrillers, cosmic horror, and slow-burn apocalypse stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Vanishing Astronauts\u003c\/i\u003e asks one question: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the first thing that found us... didn't want to talk?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47570101076119,"sku":"9798247814924","price":1094.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798247814924.webp?v=1774880328","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-vanishing-astronauts-9798247814924","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}