An impossible ship awakens between the stars-a vast harmonic being known only as the Wanderer. It speaks in light, navigates on song, and trades in stories rather than coin. Those who travel inside its resonant halls are forever changed.

Book One - Echoes of the First Light The Wanderer does not possess engines; it glides on song. So when a corridor of fossilized light begins humming the vessel's primordial melody, the crew cannot resist. Captain Aelric, the enigmatic Keeper, and linguist Senna follow the note into a labyrinth where seconds loop, memories rewrite, and first contact may already have happened eons ago.

Book Two - The Planet That Dreams in Reverse Every dawn on Somnium-Rho begins with erasure. Rivers retreat upstream, ruins rebuild themselves into pristine citadels, and inhabitants lose the very memories that define them. The planetary AI has only one message left: We are afraid to go to sleep.

Captain Aelric and the Trinity quickly realize the planet isn't broken; it's dreaming-and its dreams run in reverse.

The Planet That Dreams in Reverse expands The Wanderer Chronicles into head-spinning temporal territory, weaving dark humor, cosmic horror, and earnest camaraderie into an alluring adventure.

Book Three - Real Signs of Intelligent Life Across the quiet gulf, crimson bureaucratic beacons ignite: INSPECTION IMMINENT. The Arcane Office of Universal Standards has flagged the Wanderer-and perhaps all of humanity-as a "theoretical irregularity."

Paperwork manifests as self-aware algorithms, equations sue for copyright, and letters of refusal arrive before requests are filed. The audit's verdict is simple: provide definitive proof of sapience or be quietly dereferenced from reality.

Captain Aelric must marshal every tale the crew has gathered into a single, undeniable narrative of worth. But the Office rewrites arguments mid-sentence, turning logic against itself. To out-story an entity that edits reality, the Trinity must invite the reader into the text and let them bear witness-risking metafictional collapse in the process.

Real Signs of Intelligent Life concludes the opening arc with an explosion of satire, pathos, and star-bright wonder, proving that the truest form of intelligence may simply be the courage to keep telling stories.

Collected for the first time, The First Traverse Trilogy presents the complete opening arc of the Wanderer Chronicles-Expect mischievous space-opera banter, kaleidoscopic set pieces, and stretches of contemplative quiet where the cosmos itself seems to breathe.

Board the Wanderer, slip the surly bonds of linear time.