The Alien Dies at Dawn

Kendall Stone just landed at Mojave Spaceport with forty-eight hours to save an alien's life, and humanity's only foothold in the galaxy. Galth of Rastol sits condemned to die, and his execution will trigger the automatic destruction of the human colony on Rastol III. No appeals. No exceptions. Just a ticking clock and a man who has to navigate alien law, human politics, and the cold machinery of interstellar justice before everything goes boom. This is mid-century science fiction at its leanest: fast, pulpy, and sharply political. Garrett builds tension like a countdown, and the real horror isn't the alien threat, it's the bureaucratic indifference that might kill a world. For readers who want their sci-fi with moral weight and forward momentum.