The Silence After
"The Silence After" follows the journey of Orion, a sentient deep-space AI, and the crew of the Nightingale as they traverse the haunted void known as the Hollow Stretch. After discovering a mysterious artifact that infects their ship with the alien Mother Tongue protocol, language itself becomes both weapon and battleground. As the crew's ability to communicate fractures, Captain Vega, Kael, Yara, and Mayweather must rely on Orion's evolving awareness and creativity to survive.
Ink stains in the city
A memory-bleeding detective races to halt a parasitic blankness that rewrites murder victims’ fates, knowing the final edit will erase the only proof his sister ever existed.
War in the Mind
The Despiertos detect an impossible repeating ping from the Sisyphus system—same wavelength used in the final memetic barrage. Administrators, terrified of ideological infection, agree to a scout mission only if the pilot is psychologically guaranteed to abort. Algorithms select Senen Martin, the veteran who once wrote suicide memes and now flinches at his own heartbeat. He is woken from his pod, marched to the retro-fitted yacht “Ivory Pilgrim,” and launched with a locked protocol: at first sign of danger, auto-return and memory wipe.