Slingshot

A disgraced pilot commanding a jury-rigged mining tug may be humanity's last hope—or its gravedigger. In 2061, with Earth's water wars raging and orbital colonies starving, Alejandra Cruz leads five crew members on a desperate intercept of a trillion-ton interstellar iceberg before it escapes the solar system forever. But what they find inside the comet isn't frozen water. It's alive, ancient, and hungry—and bringing even a fragment home could unleash something no quarantine can stop.