Death is Collapsing

The universe is not what it seems. And one mortal is about to find out why.

The universe was supposed to be infinite. But when humanity set out to the great beyond, they encountered a boundary: the Edge of the Reachable Universe. And in the vastness of the cosmos, one tiny human is about to find out why.

Starlight Empires: Death is Collapsing starts the reader on a journey of nihilistic optimism. At its heart is Simon, just a short maintenance engineer stationed on a remote outpost orbiting a nondescript asteroid, grappling with isolation and a crumbling relationship back on Earth. Just as the corporate conglomerate named the CEC announces first contact with an alien species, a malfunctioning AI delivers Simon a cryptic message—“NOT WHAT THEY SEEM”.

Eager to reconnect with his old life, Simon embarks on a journey home. But upon waking, his life is turned upside down when he wakes up to a universe that has moved on without him. As he struggles to adjust to this new reality, where the line between human and AI is not as clear as it once seemed and alien technology is indistinguishable from magic itself, he finds himself questioning whether he can ever truly belong again. And when he finds himself tangled in the plans of a tired God, he just may have to make a deal with Death itself to survive this strange new world.