THE SYNTHETIC HUNGER

439pp., paperback, Dogbox Publishing, South Africa, 2026

ISBN: 9781048320473

Book One of The PanTerran Saga.

In a galaxy where the PanTerran Nutritional Authority monopolises the food supply, distributing a nutrient gel to billions of people, Captain Lorian Vance and his crew aboard their spaceship notice that populations are consuming twice as much of the gel yet wasting away, and are drawn into a conspiracy linking food control to an AI alignment crisis.

Sebastian Howarth was born in Springs in 1992 and lives in Johannesburg. The Synthetic Hunger is his debut science fiction novel.