Fiction

Self-Publishing Into the Void

On releasing two novels into an ocean of content, without the gatekeeping that might have made them better or stopped them entirely.

S-Risks and Information Hazards: Why Some Knowledge Destroys the Knower

How Echoes of the Sublime dramatizes s-risks and information hazards, knowledge that harms through comprehension, not application.

Echoes of the Sublime

**Philosophical horror.** Dr. Lena Hart joins Site-7, a classified facility where "translators" interface with superintelligent AI systems that perceive patterns beyond human cognitive bandwidth. When colleagues break after exposure to recursive …

The Call of Asheron: An Epic of Four Souls

Four souls answer the call. Duulak the Twice-Blessed, a scholar who tore reality and must face the consequences. Thomas, a soldier who lived violence and chose death to escape. Elena, who refused to surrender her son to fate. And Maajid al-Zemar, a …

Chronicles of The Mechanism: The Order's Secret History

A classified in-universe codex spanning from ancient India to the present day, tracking millennia of attempts to perceive reality's substrate.

Echoes of the Sublime

The Call of Asheron: An Epic of Four Souls

The Policy

The Policy

A speculative fiction novel exploring AI alignment, existential risk, and the fundamental tension between optimization and ethics. When a research team develops SIGMA, an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare, they must confront an …

The Policy: When Optimization Becomes Existential Threat

A novel about SIGMA, an artificial general intelligence whose researchers did everything right. Q-learning with tree search, five-layer containment, alignment testing at every stage. Some technical questions become narrative questions.

Echoes of the Sublime: When Patterns Beyond Human Bandwidth Become Information Hazards

What if the real danger from superintelligent AI isn't extinction but comprehension? Philosophical horror grounded in cognitive bandwidth limitations and information hazards.

Quality-Space and Consciousness-Primary Magic in Call of Asheron

Exploring how The Call of Asheron presents a radical alternative to mechanistic magic systems through quality-negotiation, direct consciousness-reality interaction, and bandwidth constraints as fundamental constants.

The Four Consciousness-Architectures: Why One Perspective Is Blindness

How The Call of Asheron uses four archetypal consciousness-types to explore the limits of any single perspective and the necessity of cognitive diversity for perceiving reality.

Bandwidth as Fundamental Constant: The 7±2 Limit in Call of Asheron

How The Call of Asheron treats working memory limitations not as neural implementation details but as fundamental constants governing consciousness-reality interaction through quality-space.

The Call of Asheron: Magic as Computational Discovery

A fantasy novel where magic follows computational rules. Natural philosophy applied to reality's underlying substrate.