Cover Reveal: Origin, by Simon Bullock

ORIGIN

Book Two of the Gate Origin Series

Kade Renn and the crew of The Moth have crossed the ancient gate and reached Origin — the dead world at the centre of the network.
They arrive damaged, low on air and cut off from the route behind them. Lira’s breathing system is failing. Vessa is wounded. Nix is carrying heat he cannot shed. And beneath Origin’s ruined surface, old machinery is still responding.

What they find is more dangerous than an abandoned world.
Human field stations. Hand-written warnings. Records from the First Crossing. Evidence that people objected before the first disasters — and that those objections were altered, buried or removed from the history that followed.

The Quiet War did not begin the way the Directorate says it did. Far behind them, Marshal Sorr is tightening a containment net around the damaged route. If it closes, Origin may be sealed again.

Kade does not need to save the galaxy. He needs to keep his sister breathing, keep The Moth alive, and carry enough of the truth home that
no one can bury all of it again.

Some doors weren’t lost.
They were locked.

Book 1 – Driftborn is out now!
Pre-order Origin here


I reviewed Driftborn earlier in the year. I quite liked it. I’m quoted on the back cover for Origin.

Review: The Driftborn, by Simon Bullock

Genre: Space Opera
Age Category: Adult
Number of Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Date: July 28, 2026 (digital edition) May 26, 2026 (hardcover edition)


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Blurb

A forgotten wreck. A forbidden map. A gate that should never have been opened. On the salvage moon of Veyra’s Fall, Kade Renn only wants one thing: a working air filter for his sick sister, Lira.

Instead, he finds a buried courier ship older than the official history books. Inside it is a dying Driftborn pilot, a forbidden star map, and a message from Kade’s mother, Elian, who supposedly died nine years ago.
The Directorate says the gates saved civilisation. It says the Driftborn are criminals, free-route smugglers and a threat to every recognised human world.

The Directorate is lying.

Forced to flee with Lira, their strange scrap-mech Nix, and a half-illegal ship called The Moth, Kade is pulled into a hidden war over the true origin of the gates. The deeper they travel beyond authorised space, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

The first crossing was not what humanity was taught.

The gates were not built by us.

And something has been waiting for us to understand what we woke.
For readers who enjoy grounded space opera, ancient alien mysteries, damaged ships, found family, dry humour and human stakes beneath the scale of the stars.

The Driftborn is a tense, character-driven science fiction novel about control, memory, survival and the danger of mistaking every door for an invitation.

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