Survivors War Book 1 - OUT NOW
Earth’s last stand starts with a Marine who refused to die.
Alexander Cain is a soldier out of time. Taken from Earth at the height of the Cold War, he didn’t wake up to a hero’s welcome. Instead, he spent four centuries in stasis while alien architects known as Veythari rebuilt him — bone by augmented bone — into a weapon designed for a war no human was meant to face.
Now, the savior has returned alongside an armada.
Commanding the Warship Revenant, Cain finds an Earth he no longer recognizes. The world has been broken by climate collapse and is now ruled by fractured factions more interested in bickering over orbital credits than looking at the stars. But the sky is about to fall.
The Xenthari are coming.
Twisted, violent reflections of their Veythari creators, these bio-engineered nightmares aren’t looking for conquest. Driven by a thousand years of rage, they are coming to erase the legacy of the Veythari — and Earth is the final loose end.
With an ancient AI as his only friend and a thousand dormant warships waiting for crews, Cain must do the impossible: unite a planet that has forgotten how to follow and forge a defense from the ashes of the old world.
From the cockpit of Valkyrie-class fighters to the neural-links of Promethean mech suits, the battle for survival will be carved into the bones of those who live through it in this military science fiction thrill ride by debut author Gary Budd.
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Survivors War Book 2 - Coming July 14, 2026
The galaxy’s most dangerous predator isn’t just back—it’s at Earth’s doorstep.
Commander Alexander Cain thought the victory at Terzan 5 would buy humanity decades to prepare. He was wrong. The Xenthari haven’t just survived; they’ve evolved, and their hunger for human extinction has only sharpened into a cold, calculated plan for enslavement.
Armed with ancient Veythari technology and a new generation of elite Promethean mechs, Cain leads a daring, high-stakes siege directly onto the hull of the enemy’s moon-sized mothership. But as the ground war turns into a meat-grinder of alien steel and human grit, Cain discovers the Xenthari have been hiding a terrifying secret: unstable wormhole technology.
While Cain is locked in a war of attrition thousands of light-years away, the Xenthari have split their fleet. They aren’t just burning toward Earth—they’ve already arrived.
With the AI Gabriel forced into a desperate gamble and Earth’s defenses fractured, Cain must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice to ensure the species survives. Because if Earth falls, the only thing left of humanity will be the ghosts of those who stayed to fight.
Survival isn’t a right. It’s a conquest.
About the Author
Gary Budd writes cinematic, character driven science fiction that blends high stakes military action with big philosophical questions about humanity, survival, and what it really means to lead when everything is on the line. A lifelong fan of stories where grit meets the unknown, his work combines grounded realism with speculative imagination, creating worlds that feel both vast and intensely personal.
When he is not building interstellar conflicts or exploring the moral weight of command, Gary is refining the craft of storytelling, chasing the perfect scene, or diving deep into the science behind the fiction. He is currently expanding his growing science fiction universe one battle, one character, and one impossible choice at a time, often while walking his dogs with his wife.
