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The Year of Arrival
by Elias Vance

What would humanity do if tomorrow we learned we were not alone?

When astronomers confirm the presence of an immense artificial object approaching Earth, the world spirals into chaos. Governments scramble for answers, religions fracture and multiply, markets collapse, and ordinary families find themselves confronting questions of survival, morality, and meaning in a reality that has shifted overnight.

Across the globe, fear spreads faster than information. Supermarkets empty. Streets erupt in riots. Entire cities fall under the weight of rumor and panic. While leaders preach unity, militaries quietly prepare for war—arming orbiting satellites, drafting doomsday protocols, and calculating “acceptable losses.”

Told through the intertwined perspectives of a scientist forced into secrecy, a soldier ordered to defend the indefensible, a journalist racing to record history even as it burns around her, and a family struggling to protect their children from the unraveling of civilization, The Year of Arrival paints a haunting portrait of a planet on the brink.

As the alien vessel draws ever closer, humanity reveals its deepest fractures:

• Violence in the streets as riots and shootings mark the first cracks in social order.

• New religions and cults rising overnight, promising salvation—or demanding sacrifice.

• Governments arming space with nuclear weapons, preparing for a war no one understands.

• Leaked documents suggesting secret deals and betrayals at the highest levels.

• Nuclear fire spreading across borders, as old rivalries ignite under new fears.

Is the approaching ship a messenger of peace—or conquest? Is it an omen, a test, or something beyond comprehension? And more importantly, can humanity survive itself long enough to find out?

Vivid, unflinching, and terrifyingly plausible, Elias Vance’s The Year of Arrival is not just a story of first contact—it is a story of us. It asks whether our greatest enemy comes from the stars above, or from the fears and divisions within our own species.

Fans of apocalyptic thrillers, hard science fiction, and socially charged dystopias will find themselves gripped from the opening page. With relentless pacing and chilling realism, Vance delivers a novel that feels less like speculative fiction and more like a warning written from the near future.

The aliens haven’t fired a shot. They don’t need to. We’re doing the work for them.

Step into a world on the edge of annihilation, and witness the year everything changed—the year of arrival.