The Unfinished Sky, Book 1
The Quiet Array
Hard science-fiction mystery
The signal was there. Her software had been throwing it away.
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Gene Roth Books
Thrillers built on real science, real places and real systems
Fourteen novels about measurement, evidence, and the moment a record stops matching the world it describes. Each one starts from a real anomaly, a real place, or a real piece of science, then asks what it would cost the people standing closest to it.
Fourteen published novelsLatest: The Quiet Array, September 18, 2026
The Ground Truth SeriesFour of four novels available now
The Unfinished SkyFour of four novels available now
All novels
Thrillers, speculative fiction and one literary romance. Every title available as an ebook, newest first.
The Unfinished Sky, Book 2
The Missing Hemisphere
Literary science-fiction mystery
Her father left behind a ruined reputation, and observations she cannot explain.
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The Unfinished Sky, Book 3
The Second Inventory
Science-fiction mystery
The museum had cataloged the stone. It had never explained what was inside.
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The Unfinished Sky, Book 4
The Recovery Window
Near-future science thriller
The sample came back from space. Its paper trail did not come back clean.
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The Ground Truth Series, Book 4
The Last Whole Stone
Science thriller
To prove what it is, they must decide what it can survive.
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The Ground Truth Series, Book 3
The Control Reach
Literary suspense
Every law here governs water. The thing doing the damage isn't water.
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The Ground Truth Series, Book 2
Sunklands
Environmental thriller
Every map draws the line in the same place. The line moves.
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The Ground Truth Series, Book 1
The Coastal Correction
Technothriller
Nobody is lying. Nobody is corrupt. Nineteen hundred families may still be left to the sea.
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Hold Pressure
Survival thriller
Nineteen sailed that morning. Fourteen went into the water. Nobody wrote down which fourteen.
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Witness Mark
Hard science-fiction thriller
A dead lander recorded the Moon ringing for forty-one minutes. One note in that recording should not exist.
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The Audubon Protocol
Science-fiction horror and conspiracy thriller
Something beneath Atlanta remembers everything that happened there.
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The Fifth Pit
Science thriller
Four radioactive waste pits. One poisoned quarry. And a fifth site erased from history.
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A Record of the Evening
Literary M/M romantic suspense
At seventy-four, Julian Essex can arrange anything for anyone. Except his own life.
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The 24-Hour Ping
Hard science-fiction thriller
Ten words. One mistake. The light does not come back.
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Series
The Ground Truth Series
Four Ground Truth novels, each beginning with a different real scientific anomaly and reaching its own conclusion. Each book stands on its own.
Series
The Unfinished Sky
Four Unfinished Sky novels. Each is a complete story that can be read independently.
The author
Gene Roth
I write thrillers from Atlanta, Georgia, about measurement, evidence, custody of records, and the moment a description of the world stops matching the world. Before this, and still alongside it, I spent fifteen years inside federal regulatory systems.
It is not really a separate interest. Both start with a record, a measurement, and the point at which the two stop agreeing.