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Also by Mike Chen:

Critical Role, August 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The Photonic Effect, May 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Marvel: What If . . . Marc Spector Was Host to Venom? (A Moon Knight & Venom Story), November 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
A Quantum Love Story, February 2024
Paperback / e-Book
Vampire Weekend, February 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Light Years from Home, February 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
We Could Be Heroes, February 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
A Beginning at the End, January 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Here and Now and Then, September 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Here and Now and Then, February 2019
Hardcover / e-Book

THE PHOTONIC EFFECT
By: Mike Chen

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

S&S/Saga Press
May 2026
On Sale: April 21, 2026
448 pages
ISBN: 1668083795
EAN: 9781668083796
Kindle: B0FCG7M4NP
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
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Mystery | Science Fiction Space Opera

A starship captain and her crew face conspiracies and betrayals as they clash with various factions of a galactic civil war in a thrilling space adventure by New York Times bestselling author Mike Chen.

The starship Horizon’s crew spent ten years trapped across the expanse of space. Now they’re finally home—only it’s not the home they knew. The Cluster, once a peaceful coalition of planets, has fractured in the wake of civil war.

Captain Demora Kim wants nothing more than to protect her surviving crew. It’s what she owes them after years of instability and terror. But in times of war, no one is allowed neutrality.

After an attack on a mining station leaves thousands dead, Demi’s efforts become almost impossible. Every ship is needed on the frontline. Thrust deeper into a conflict she barely understands, Demi considers a bold choice—one that might keep her promises but tip the galaxy further into chaos.