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The Adventures of Captain DarkBeam: Sanctuary Rising
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 25 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a quiet corner of the galaxy, there is a café that serves excellent coffee, listens better than most people, and just happens to sit at the crossroads of history.
Orion DarkBeam-former agent, former captain, and current café owner-didn't retire to save the universe. He retired to stop being used by it.
But when reality itself begins to fracture-when memories are edited, cities are rewritten, and entire civilizations are improved without their consent-Sanctuary Café becomes something more than a refuge. It becomes a line that must not be crossed.
Alongside a small, improbable crew-a brilliant engineer, a kinetic code-weaver, a living flame of courage, and a weapon with opinions-Orion is drawn back into a conflict not about conquest, but about something far more dangerous:
Who gets to decide what is better?
As empires rise on perfect systems and flawless logic, Captain DarkBeam offers something radical instead: choice, imperfection, and the stubborn belief that humanity should remain human.
The Adventures of Captain DarkBeam: Sanctuary Rising is a warm, philosophical, character-driven science fiction novel about:
- Consent in an age of perfect technology
- Continuity versus control
- Found family in the middle of impossible politics
- And the quiet heroism of keeping the doors open
If you enjoy thoughtful science fiction, hopeful futures, and stories that care more about people than power-welcome to Sanctuary.
The coffee is good.
The universe is complicated.
And the story begins when someone refuses to make it simple.
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