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I want to share my debut novel, The Glass Between Human and Silver, which is available on Kindle Unlimited. A bit of background: I’m currently in medical school, and a lot of the book grew out of my fascination with neuroscience, cognition, trauma, biological systems, and the uncomfortable overlap between medicine, ethics, and institutional decision-making. I love science fiction, but I especially love stories where alien intelligence actually feels alien and they are not just humans in costumes. I wanted to write a story where first contact isn’t solved through hero speeches or technobabble, but through actual decades of observation, behavioral analysis, and increasingly uneasy coexistence. The premise: Humanity raises in captivity an immortal psychic alien queen and builds a classified research station around her. Over fifty years, the relationship between the lead scientist and the creature evolves from containment into something far more complicated, while the rest of humanity slowly turns the project into infrastructure, industry, and eventually a weapon before turning against it. What to expect: • A hard-ish sci-fi horror with a strong psychological focus • Detailed behavioral science / xenobiology elements • Themes of language, identity, grief, and institutional ethics • A contained research-station atmosphere that gradually expands into a large-scale existential conflict • Alien intelligence that stays genuinely nonhuman throughout the story. Some inspirations were things like Annihilation, Arrival, Blindsight, Alien, and SCP-style containment fiction, but the book is ultimately much more character-focused than military/action-focused If you enjoy cerebral sci-fi, first-contact horror, morally complicated researchers, and stories where the emotional payoff comes from understanding rather than explosions, then it may be just what you are looking for! It would also mean a lot if you checked it out. I published it on KU. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GXMT2HX2 At the price of 4.19 if you don't have KU (I actually put a price of 3.99 so I dunno why it is 4.19, sorry about that)