Never Come Midnight

Emrys Shortmire's father made a deal with an alien race called the Morethans, trading humanity's future for power and immortality. Now Emrys carries that bargain in his blood: half-human, half-alien, cursed with eternal life and a consuming need for revenge against Nicholas Dyall, the rival inventor who destroyed his father. On the distant world of Morethis, among beings who view humans as raw material for their experiments, Emrys must decide whether to become the weapon his heritage demands or forge something better from his fractured soul. This is 1950s science fiction at its most ambitious: a story that asks what happens when humanity's children stop being human, and whether immortality is a gift or the cruelest punishment. Gold builds a universe where alien technology hums through every chapter and the stakes are nothing less than the soul of a species.