The Neuro-Letter #3

I admit I’ve become extremely fascinated by the Fermi paradox—the discrepancy between the apparently high likelihood for extraterrestrial life and the historical lack of evidence for it. I’ve been looking into it further ever since I put pen to paper on the first book in my series. It seems many interesting conjectures have been put forward to explain the silence of the cosmos: the dark forest hypothesis; the Berserker hypothesis; the zoo hypothesis; and several others.

It has the gotten to the point that, whenever I’m developing my characters and storylines for future entries, there is a little voice in the back of my head that reminds me to consider how everything fits into a larger scheme or progression. A universal chronology. Deep down I feel that there is some truth to many of these conjectures, and if my series is to ever stand out from others, it is in conceiving an overarching plot that connects the major proposals in some way. And so, readers can expect to find variations of such hypotheses embedded in my books.

What lies at the end of Book 5 is unknown, even to me, but I get the sense that I’ll end up with a novel explanation for the Fermi paradox. That is the secondary objective of my series. The first is, and will always be, a focus on the growth and struggles of my characters, since they and their descendants shall be the ones holding up that uncertain future.

Book 2 of the CON of First Contact series, Shadow and the Apocrypha of First Contact, is now available for purchase on Amazon.

See you again soon.