This is Inner Horizon, a substack about the development of the first novel Inner Horizon in my forthcoming sci fi trilogy.

No plans to make this a paid substack — it’s for building an audience. Hopefully the random notes and writing practice will entice you to read the book when it comes out.

It’ll include some of the world building and background — some short stories about the history prior to the opening of Inner Horizon, some discussion of the sci fi technology, some stuff that I’ve cut from the book, and some talk about my influences.

Speaking of influences, the one line pop culture reference would be Star Trek meets The Three Body Problem meets Dune with a dash of the physics of holographic cosmology and information told like my remembrances of the Dragonlance series — a kind of “deep trash” compiled from decades of experiences.

I am a physicist who works on information theory, signal processing, and machine learning in aerospace — my background was in nuclear and particle physics. The book will have a lot of “hard” sci fi components (more on that later) but is primarily a thought experiment: what does a universe look like if species in it reach the infinite limit of computation?