Book cover titled 'Second Chance' by J. Michael Thomas, featuring a dark background with stylized illustrations of an alien and a blackened earth.

The only way to save the human race is to destroy everything and start over.

In the future, Earth lies in ruin after decades of war. Humanity is dying, and no one knows why people can’t reproduce.
The remnants of the human race evacuate to the moon, guarded by a sentient machine named Alexandria. To restore life, they launch Operation Second Chance, an experimental weapon designed to destroy their technological enemy on Earth, and reseed life for humankind’s return.
As they wait for their world to heal, Captain Brewer believes the fight is finally over. But an alien counterattack shortly after the operation cuts his peacetime short. In the battle, Brewer pursues an alien craft through a time portal and crashes onto pre-war Earth. There he uncovers a hidden truth buried within one of history’s greatest cover-ups.
While Brewer escapes to a new, peaceful life in the past, he learns that the fate of both timelines depends on the choices he makes. Now he must decide what future he will create, whether to live the quiet life he’s always wanted or risk everything and return to his timeline to save humanity’s future.
Silhouette of a young boy sitting against a tree at sunset, reading a book.

Download chapter one free

I’m working hard to get the novel ready to publish later this year but, until then, I want to offer you the opportunity to read chapter one, called Darkness, now.

The first chapter lays out the bleak state of Earth’s future and introduces two of our main characters, Captain Brewer and Lieutenant Sullivan.

download chapter one free

Will I like second chance ?

Second Chance is for fans of dystopian sci-fi, time travel, time loop paradoxes, unexpected twists, aliens, sentient machines, and more, all written with no smut and no AI, ever.

Here’s a video of a brief discussion with Mookie Spitz about Second Chance.

Brief video describing Second Chance.