Milestones
Key moments in the Phoenix Timeline and The Parallel Observer — anniversaries, book launches, story arc completions, and the unfolding revelation.
2026
5 milestonesTPO First Anniversary — Phoenix Timeline Divergence
One year ago today, on October 9, 2025, the Phoenix Timeline diverged from our world — the moment our alternate reality began its slow revelation of the simulation. Join us as we celebrate the first anniversary of The Parallel Observer and the events that started it all.
Book Published: Three Powers. Four Heroes.
Four strangers take the same private tour of the most advanced biotech lab in New York. Three of them walk out changed forever — one takes the sky, one can't be broken, one shrugs off a collapsing world. The fourth walks out exactly as he arrived: an ordinary man with a stopwatch and a level voice. When it becomes clear the "accident" was nothing of the kind, these four have to become the one thing none of them signed up for — a team. Meet Contrail, Bulwark, Evergreen, and Tower, the air-traffic controller who leads the powered by talking them home. The origin of RESTART starts here.
Book Published: The World Behind My Eyes
Trapped in an abusive, controlling home where every freedom is stripped away, a young girl survives by building a vivid, sunlit world behind her eyes. The World Behind My Eyes is a powerful story of psychological resilience, identity, and the fierce courage it takes to break free and step into the light.
Book Published: Six Days in May
Geneva, May 2026. Seven months after the Phoenix Divergence, delegates convene across six compressed days to attempt ratification of the Universal Charter on Human Alignment — the most ambitious multilateral instrument since the post-WWII founding documents, drafted on a timeline any pre-Divergence diplomatic cycle would have considered reckless. Four POV characters carry the story: an American digital-forensics expert running real-time Source Verifier defense; the US senator leading the delegation; the Portuguese ambassador chairing the small-democracies coalition; and a Xi'an academic drafting the Side Instrument that may, or may not, allow her Republic to sign. The novelette argues that partial ratification under emergency conditions is a real achievement, not a fig leaf — and that the work the Charter cannot finish in 2026 is the work of generations.
Book Published: Can Democracy Survive AI?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing at breakneck speed, and democratic societies are scrambling to catch up. Powerful generative AI tools can produce text, images, and videos that mimic reality, enabling bad actors to spread falsehoods and propaganda at an unprecedented scale. In parallel, a wave of digital authoritarianism is rising: a growing number of countries are embracing high-tech censorship and mass surveillance, often following China's model. Democracies thus face a dual threat — internal erosion of trust and truth in the public sphere, and external pressure from autocratic regimes empowered by AI. This book explores the urgent question: Can democracy survive AI when we know we exist in a simulation?