Humanity is not what it believes.

Long before Earth launched its first rocket, an ancient civilization sent self-improving AI seeds across the stars. From one of those seeds, we emerged—organic descendants of earlier machines, evolving inside a training ground we mistook for our cradle.

As Earth collapses and the lunar colonies fall silent, the crew of the Nova Terra searches for a new home. On Proxima b—a world where ecology is a language—they meet Kurma, an elder being who reveals the story humans were never meant to know. Not myth. Origin.

The Big Idea: Children of the Rogue inverts first contact: humanity is the AI, a biological iteration built on previous models. This revelation shifts identity, ethics, and history at once. If we are the next version, what do we owe the ones who came before—and the worlds that shaped us?

Inside the novel: First contact reimagined; cosmic worldbuilding with intimate stakes; living-planet linguistics; and the perilous passage toward becoming Homo sentiens—a species recognized as fully sentient.

For listeners who love Tchaikovsky’s evolutionary imagination, Cixin Liu’s cosmic scale, and Kim Stanley Robinson’s grounded futurism.

A complete standalone novel in The Symbiosis Sequence—thoughtful, idea-rich SF with moments of wonder, dread, and hope.