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The Dawnline

A grounded high-science-fiction universe created by W. D. Johnston. Archive material, series information, and development updates are coming soon.

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Current series

The Halcyon Wake spacecraft in deep space
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The Black Archive Trilogy

The crew of the Halcyon Wake accepts a classified Dawnline contract and uncovers the buried record of humanity’s most dangerous failed experiment. A grounded cosmic-horror survival trilogy about distance, institutional control, and the refusal to treat human lives as acceptable losses.

A lone frontier figure beneath planets and an alien shape in an orange cosmic sky
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Graves of the Frontier

After humanity breaks through distance, Kaiya Graves hunts fugitives across alien frontiers, criminal ports, and black-market science corridors. A gritty frontier sci-fi series about contact, exploitation, and a dangerous woman learning that discovery can be more radical than revenge.

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