The Last Astronaut - edwardellison - Wattpad

The Last Astronaut

Reads 34
Votes 4
Parts 6
Time 49m

Reads 34
Votes 4
Parts 6
Time 49m

"The Last Astronaut"

Commander Lila Voss thought she'd be returning to an Earth she recognized. But when she reemerges from a dangerous wormhole, she finds a universe abandoned, lifeless, and shrouded in the haunting silence of extinction.

With only her AI, Helios, to guide her, Lila sets out to uncover the mystery of what caused humanity's downfall. Ancient distress signals, empty cryo-pods, and alien contamination hint at a horrific past-a catastrophe buried by time. As she journeys through long-deserted stations and desolate worlds, Lila begins to suspect that the disaster she's investigating has left her completely alone in the universe.

In a race against time, Lila must decipher the cryptic messages of humanity's last days, track down the hope of survivors if any exist, and face a shocking truth that challenges everything she knows about the universe-and herself.All Rights Reserved

Table of contents

6 parts

Sign up to add The Last Astronaut to your library and receive updates

or

#359exploration

Content Guidelines

You may also like

Jewel of The Stars: Season 1 Episode 1: Earth's Remnant by AdamDavidCollings

The Cruise is Over Haylee was more confident designing starships than raising an autistic child. Now she just wants a relaxing vacation with her family. But when Earth falls to an alien armada, she knows life will never be the same again. Les was just a cruise ship captain. Now, he must rise up and become something greater, if he is to keep his crew and passengers alive. Braxton never wanted to leave the space navy, but now, taking a cruise is the only way to feel the stars around him. This crisis may be his ticket to regaining the life he thought was gone forever. Can they overcome their differences and save everyone on the ship? If they reach unexplored space, they might yet survive, but an unstoppable enemy stands in their way... Earth's Remnant is the thrilling pilot to an episodic space opera, Jewel of The Stars, by Adam David Collings. Join the crew as they fight for survival against the wondrous backdrop of the unknown. What else will they find hiding among the stars?

Deep by Pickledtoes1

Eris Neve is an employee at Yakuba Technologies, a powerful company that has been prepping for the end of Earth since it was founded. Her and 799 other people were selected to be aboard their traveling ship, searching for the next planet capable of supporting human life. Not even months after departure, the ship was infiltrated. This resulted in their back-up safety feature coming into play. Cryogenic Sleep. All of the surviving members of the traveling ship were placed into individual cryogenic pods and put to sleep. When Eris finally wakes, she doesn't have any memories of her past. She can't even recall her own name. Not to mention, there's something particularly strange about the two men that woke her... Will she regain her memories? What happened on that ship? Caspian Fowler is Eris' "boyfriend" before the ship was infiltrated. He must navigate how to interact with his now ex-girlfriend and silently hope she'll fall in love with him all over again. Or was she ever in love with him in the first place? Find out and more in Deep. In Progress; not all edits have been made, please forgive any errors.

ARCHIVE-XC9: TERRA by Wynd105

For centuries, humanity believed itself to be alone in the universe. The stars were distant, silent, and indifferent-until the silence was broken. When a deep-space exploration vessel makes an unprecedented discovery-an unknown civilization with human DNA identical to their own-everything humanity thought they knew about their origins is shattered. As star-faring nations scramble to unravel the mystery, tensions rise, alliances fracture, and the race to uncover the truth begins. But in the depths of the cosmos, beyond the reach of human understanding, something stirs. Ancient ruins whisper of lost empires. Unseen forces bend the very fabric of reality. And lurking in the void, an enemy waits-an anomaly so vast, so consuming, that it threatens to unravel existence itself. As humanity ventures further into the unknown, one question echoes through the corridors of power, the minds of scientists, and the whispers of those who dare to seek the truth: "If we are not alone... then what are we?"

The Kaleidoscope Effect by RyanMaxfield

When astronaut Nova Vance crash-lands on an uncharted planet, she finds herself thrust into an alien world unlike anything humanity has ever encountered. The planet's surface shimmers with impossible colors, its atmosphere teeming with energy that defies explanation. But the deeper mystery lies within Nova herself. As soon as she awakens, her perceptions begin to unravel. Vivid hallucinations blur the line between reality and imagination, and the planet seems to respond to her presence, its strange environment shifting and coming alive in ways she cannot comprehend. When a telepathic alien guide emerges, offering cryptic insights into the planet's collective consciousness, Nova must decide whether to trust the alien-or her own fractured mind. Is the planet trying to communicate? Or is she losing her grip on reality, the victim of an otherworldly neurochemical influence? In a journey that defies logic and bends time, Nova ventures deeper into the planet's mysteries, confronting her own fears, memories, and the nature of existence itself. By the time she returns to orbit, one question will remain: was any of it real? A mind-bending tale of survival and first contact, The Kaleidoscope Effect explores the boundaries of perception, the nature of consciousness, and the infinite possibilities of the unknown.

Infected Realms by JesseLeighty

**Infected Realms** *The end of the world isn't always what it seems.* A routine sleep study turns into something far more sinister when a group of participants begin experiencing unexplainable phenomena. What starts as an ordinary experiment soon spirals into chaos, as reality itself seems to shift around them. Strange events, impossible memories, and a deadly threat emerge, tearing apart the very fabric of their world. As society begins to unravel, a small group of survivors must band together to confront a terrifying new reality. The infection is spreading, but no one knows how or why. What they do know is that nothing will ever be the same again. In a race against time, they must uncover the truth before the world as they know it falls apart. But some questions might be better left unanswered...

Going Across by goingacross

An impenetrable shield divides two galaxies. Someone was taken from Nova-stolen across the stars-and he will stop at nothing to bring her back. Meanwhile, Nyssa fights to expose the truth behind her family's forceful imprisonment, determined to make the galaxy listen. Unaware of their struggles, Nikolai is pulled into a battle against a hidden force corrupting Inferife from the shadows. Though their journeys begin apart, all three are fighting the same enemy-one that threatens the very fabric of their galaxy. But where will their paths finally converge? Can Nova truly cross the shield? Will Nyssa free her family? Can Nikolai save the galaxy?

Mother Sun by JanGoesWriting

It should have heralded the dawn of a new age. A future that would see the human race reach out and then stride among the stars. But a conspiracy hundreds of years in the making comes to fruition at the beginning of humankind's greatest achievement, and its greatest failure. For the fifteen thousand occupants of the decommissioned space station, Sekai No Mirai, and its commander, Shani Akinye, the point where everything ends for humanity is the point where the fight for survival begins. Lost, stranded, millions of light years from Earth, the crew and the people of Mirai station must fight to return home against ever-increasing odds against them and, in the process, save the enemy that brought disaster to the Earth. An SF epic in the vein of Battlestar Galactica, Space:1999 and The Expanse, from Wattys 2021 winner, Jan Karlsson. Cover created in Canva, using an AI generated picture.

The Day The Humans Came by 84b2krawler

Ava is a human that has never been to earth. That is because a few decades before she was born, the earth became unlivable. All of the governments came together to make a plan to get everyone off of the planet. Now all of the humans live on spaceships in outer space, trying to find a suitable planet for them to live on. What happens when Ava's ship crashes onto a planet with aliens? And not short green things with three eyes and three fingers. Beautiful tall beings that seem to glow from the inside. And what happens when one of those aliens takes an interest in Ava? Daxx is is an alien. Everything is normal until a strange metal machine crashes on his home planet, carrying strange looking guests. One in particular catches his eye. A beautiful girl with long, wavy brown hair that comes to her mid thighs, large, hazel doe-like eyes, plump lips and curves for days. As he spends more time with her, he starts to feel something for her. And what happens to her when he kisses her?

Star Kissed by LizzyFord

When Mandy loses her job, she thinks she’s hit rock bottom – until her plane is swallowed by a strange storm that sends her and everyone else on board 10,000 years into the future. At first, she thinks the scary world is nothing more than a bad dream. The war-torn Earth is unrecognizable. Black fog blocks the sun, and the oceans are dry. Even worse: the planet is inhabited by half-human, half-alien creatures dying from a mysterious disease. Horrified at the thought of spending her life here, she clings to the knowledge that there’s one man who can open the star gate to send her home. As the Naki prince who controls the star gate, Akkadi gets first choice of any human female that makes her way through the star gate. Only by breeding with purebred humans from the past can his race hope to remain immune to the disease and hopefully, develop an eventual cure. With shrinking resources and a raging battle for the human planet, dutiful, commanding Akkadi is less than thrilled at the idea of trying to figure out Mandy, a woman he views as wild with neither discipline nor respect for someone in his position. He’s ready to write her off, when she offers him something too tempting to resist: her body for the chance to convince him by any means possible to send her home. Neither intends for the arrangement to be permanent or to fall for the other. Only when Mandy learns Akkadi’s secret and walks away does he realize he’ll do whatever it takes to keep her – even if it means losing his war.

White Crystal Butterflies | Wattys 2021 Shortlist | ✔ by SmokeAndOranges

❖ Interstellar pilot and ex-adventurer Alex Gallegos must keep their team safe on an icy moon as sentient storms threaten to repeat the tragedy that ended their last career. ❖ Everyone in the United Inhabited Solar Systems (for some reason, UIS for short) knows to stay away from Mahaha. The icy moon is notorious for failed probe landings and research missions that end in tragedy: the only people to ever venture to its surface needed rescuing after just two weeks. When a prestigious research group decides they want a turn, they ask Alex Gallegos to lead the team. Perfectly qualified and haunted by their past, Alex accepts, hoping to make up for old mistakes and get just a little further from the earth they've left behind. Two months into the seven-month mission, the team is struggling with discontent, damaged equipment, and blizzards acting less and less like normal weather. As Mahaha moves out of range of help and the storms take on a more malicious character, Alex must face the one foe they could never have prepared for. Mahaha may or may not be alive. ❖❖❖ Complete. Wattys 2021 Shortlister. Standalone sequel (Rocks Can Dance) coming in 2023. Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)

You may also like

Slide 1 of 10

Jewel of The Stars: Season 1 Episode 1: Earth's Remnant cover

ARCHIVE-XC9: TERRA cover

The Kaleidoscope Effect cover

Infected Realms cover

Going Across cover

Mother Sun cover

The Day The Humans Came cover

Star Kissed cover

White Crystal Butterflies | Wattys 2021 Shortlist | ✔ cover

Jewel of The Stars: Season 1 Episode 1: Earth's Remnant

The Cruise is Over Haylee was more confident designing starships than raising an autistic child. Now she just wants a relaxing vacation with her family. But when Earth falls to an alien armada, she knows life will never be the same again. Les was just a cruise ship captain. Now, he must rise up and become something greater, if he is to keep his crew and passengers alive. Braxton never wanted to leave the space navy, but now, taking a cruise is the only way to feel the stars around him. This crisis may be his ticket to regaining the life he thought was gone forever. Can they overcome their differences and save everyone on the ship? If they reach unexplored space, they might yet survive, but an unstoppable enemy stands in their way... Earth's Remnant is the thrilling pilot to an episodic space opera, Jewel of The Stars, by Adam David Collings. Join the crew as they fight for survival against the wondrous backdrop of the unknown. What else will they find hiding among the stars?