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They were promised a new Earth. This isn’t it.

Humanity’s plan seemed extraordinary.

Launch a starship carrying 10,000 colonists toward a distant world and send along a payload of self-replicating machines capable of transforming the planet.

While the colonists slept through their 200-year journey, the machines would work.

Build.

Replicate.

Prepare.

By the time humanity awakened, an entire new world would be waiting for them.

A New Earth.

There was just one problem.

Two centuries is a very long time for machines to be left on their own.

When one colonist finally awakens, there is no peaceful settlement waiting to welcome him.

He wakes drowning.

He doesn’t know his name.

He doesn’t know where he is.

And he doesn’t remember how he got there.

Around him stretches a massive vault filled with sleeping colonists stacked into the darkness.

Then he hears something.

Something is moving through the racks.

With no memory, no answers, and no idea what happened during the centuries he was asleep, he must quickly determine what has become of humanity’s carefully planned colony.

Even finding another human doesn’t provide the answers he desperately needs.

The first person he meets tries to kill him.

Whatever happened during the 200-year voyage—or on the world the machines were supposed to prepare—the original plan has failed.

Now survival comes first.

New Earth launches a new science-fiction series from M.R. Forbes with an intriguing combination of space exploration, advanced technology, survival, mystery, adventure, and a lost-colony premise.

The question isn’t simply whether humanity reached its destination.

It’s what happened while everyone was sleeping.

Perfect for Readers Who Enjoy

• Space exploration science fiction
• Lost colony stories
• Science-fiction survival
• Generation and colony ships
• Artificial intelligence and autonomous machines
• Self-replicating technology
• Mysterious alien worlds
• Amnesia mysteries
• High-tech science fiction
• Space opera
• Sci-fi adventure
• Humanity rebuilding among the stars
• Stories where technology doesn’t follow the plan

Ten thousand colonists went to sleep expecting paradise.

Two hundred years later, one of them wakes up to a nightmare.

Begin M.R. Forbes’ New Earth series and discover what became of the world humanity’s machines were sent to build.

Distinct Product Information

Title: New Earth
Author: M.R. Forbes
Series: New Earth
Series Position: Book 1
Publication Year: 2026
Genre: Science Fiction
Primary Categories: Science Fiction, Space Opera, High-Tech Science Fiction, Adventure
Publisher: Quirky Algorithms
Audiobook Release: August 5, 2026
Audiobook Narrator: Lincoln Gillett
Audiobook Length: Approximately 8 hours 45 minutes
Language: English

Core Story Premise

Humanity launches a spacecraft carrying 10,000 colonists and self-replicating machines toward a distant planet.

The machines are supposed to spend the colonists’ 200-year sleep transforming their destination into a habitable new Earth.

When a man awakens without his name or memories, however, he discovers that something has gone terribly wrong.

What Makes New Earth Stand Out

10,000 sleeping colonists: Humanity’s future depends on an enormous group of colonists surviving their journey and successfully establishing a civilization on another world.

A 200-year experiment: The colonists surrender control of their destination to machines expected to work independently for two centuries.

Self-replicating machines: Instead of arriving and building the colony themselves, humanity sends machines ahead to transform the planet while the passengers sleep.

An immediate mystery: The protagonist awakens without a name or memory, allowing the reader to discover what happened alongside him.

Paradise gone wrong: The central hook turns the familiar colonization dream upside down. The destination was supposed to be perfected before anyone awakened—but clearly something happened.

Survival from the opening moments: The protagonist awakens drowning, hears something moving among the sleeping colonists, and discovers that even another human may be a threat.

Series starting point: New Earth is Book 1, making it the entry point for readers who want to follow the story from its beginning.