Writing
A four-book quartet and feature screenplay. The same question the research asks — whether the attempt matters even without a guarantee of outcome — asked through character, physical danger, and ten thousand years of waiting stone.
The Quartet
Four books asking four questions that cannot be collapsed into three. Books One, Two, and Three are complete manuscripts. Book Four — The Attending — is in active development with four chapters drafted and a complete 24-chapter roadmap.
"For ten thousand years the knowledge waited. It has been in the world for one day. What happens next is not written in stone."
Book One
Complete~97,000 words
Submitted — Novel Prize, Fitzcarraldo Editions, April 2026
The question: Whether the attempt is worth making without a guarantee of outcome.
A climber-scholar discovers evidence of a pre-flood global civilisation deliberately hidden from history. She has three days and three ancient sites to prove a man wrong — not by force, but by naming the grief he has spent twenty years calling mercy.
Book Two
Complete111,232 words
111,232 words · 34 chapters
The question: What happens to a world that receives the knowledge and nearly fails under its weight.
The knowledge is in the world. Reality is losing coherence. The shimmer-sickness spreads. Leo and Sarah hold the sync-camps together while Kael follows the relay architecture surfacing everywhere around her.
Book Three
Complete177,744 words
177,744 words · 24 chapters
The question: What the architects understood about their own failure that changes everything.
The Confluence. The Messenger. The seventeen presences at the margin of awareness. Kael in the attending-register, asking the questions the trilogy has been building toward. "Stay for dinner." "Yes." "Good."
Book Four
In DevelopmentIn progress
4 chapters drafted · Complete 24-chapter roadmap
The question: What it costs to have been the person who carried the question, when the answer arrives and is not relief.
Aftermath. The relay has outgrown Kael's architecture. The attending was always the act. The book's recognition is not transcendence. It is precision. It ends in ordinary life, not adjudication.
Feature Screenplay
He has the power to end civilisation. He believes that is the kindest thing left to do. She has three days and three ancient sites to prove him wrong — not by force, but by naming the grief he has spent twenty years calling mercy.
Format
Feature Film
Pages
99 pages
Runtime
99–112 minutes
Budget Tier
$90–105M
Genre
Prestige Action-Adventure
Status
Final Draft — April 2026
The adaptation of Book One. A global quest, physical danger, a ticking clock, a formidable antagonist, a climax at the top of one of the oldest structures on earth. What makes this different: the antagonist is not wrong about the danger. He is wrong about who gets to make the decision. The film's climax is an argument, not a fight. The broadcast at the end is not salvation — it is the release of a choice that belongs to humanity and not to either of the people fighting over it.
Comparable films: Arrival (2016) · Spotlight (2015) · Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)