Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit’s relevance grows stronger.Why Detroit Matters bridges academic and non-academic responses to this extreme example of a fractured and divided, post-industrial city.Contributions from many of the leading scholars on Detroit...

A cybernetic reconnaissance dog was built to evaluate alien worlds. No one expected him to become something more.Before Veridian-6. Before the events ofThe Roche Limit Chronicles, there was Draxin.A biological dog enhanced with advanced cybernetics, Draxin was created as an off-world reconnaissance canine, sent to explore alien worlds and determine whether humanity could survive them. Intelligent, adaptable, and increasingly curious, he began modif...

Matter is collapsing. Minds are next.At the edge of colonized space, something is rewriting matter at the atomic level. At the same time, an alien species—the Rahl—descends, hijacking neural networks through harmonic resonance. Kalen Thar, a gifted terraforming technician and his cybernetically enhanced canine companion Draxin are thrust into a crisis that threatens the very fabric of space and mind. As exotic matter twists the laws of physics and an alien force pr...

Perihelion DriftThe Roche Limit Chronicles, Book 1When a corrupted deep-space transmission surfaces in a forgotten archive, technician Kalen Thar spots what no one else does: the numbers don’t match. A neutron star is on a collision course with the system’s life-giving sun—arriving decades earlier than any model predicted.Kalen is not a soldier or a commander. He is a systems technician with an instinctive grasp of orbital mechanics and mat...