The novel “The Eris Anomaly…beyond Pluto” (“Il Mistero di Eris…oltre Plutone”) by Angelo Messina was published for the first time in 2023 and translated into English by the author in 2025.

Adam is traveling to the dwarf planet Eris to investigate a strange anomaly in its orbit. That journey represents an important milestone in a journey that began thirty years earlier, changing his life and leading him to have a growing influence on humanity.

Thirty years earlier, Adam was taking what he thought was a normal walk in the woods when he found himself in a completely different place. There, he begins a contact with an object that seems to possess a consciousness and progressively increases his mental abilities, allowing him to develop technologies useful to humanity, but only if he manages to avoid certain negative tendencies.

The novel “Austral” by Paul McAuley was published for the first time in 2017.

Austral “Stral” Morales Ferrado is a corrections officer in a labor camp. She’s also in a relationship with Keever Bishop, the most dangerous inmate, who continues to run his criminal enterprise from his cell. She has discovered she’s pregnant but is keeping it a secret for fear that Keever decides to get rid of her. Keever is planning his escape, and the opportunity comes when the inauguration of three new bridges will feature a prominent presence, Honourable Deputy Alberto Toomy, who is also Stral’s uncle.

The escape plan is well-conceived and involves Stral confronting her uncle, taking advantage of the fact that the two of them belong to branches of the family that had virtually opposite destinies. Stral realizes that some of Keever’s accomplices are trying to kidnap Kamilah, Alberto Toomy’s daughter, and decides to intervene without considering the consequences. She quickly realizes she’s in deep trouble and decides to kidnap her cousin herself for a ransom that will allow her to leave Antarctica and seek a better life.