Author's Log
I.S.C. Date: 66.13.15

The Andromeda Hypothesis is a weird book. Why do I say that? I think it's a weird book because it's the first book I'm writing that isn't a metanovel about authorship itself. Granted, I've only written one novel, so perhaps it's just an irrational feeling that has no place in sagacious judgements. That's very likely.

What is The Andromeda Hypothesis about, you may ask? It's about a lot of things - philosophy, mathematics, physics, imagination, technology, and the very fabric of reality itself. It's motivated by my curiosity about the universe, and also by my peculiar impulse to imbue as many stories as possible with prolific amounts of poorly conceived dick jokes.

I initially set out wanting to write an anthology of short stories that would have been called The Post-Human Time. You see, I'm an avid transhumanist, and so I figured I might want to explore my own transhumanist thinking through writing. One of the ideas I invented was called "The Bridge to Andromeda", about a journey by a group of posthumans to the adventure-inviting Andromeda Galaxy. But I ended up scrapping that idea, because I had devised an entirely new idea - the one which I today have begun articulating.

So what's it really about, then? The book? You presented quite a few concepts that you've imbued within your outline, but who are the characters? What's the premise? It's fortuitous that you asked; I was feeling trepidatious that nobody would want to ascertain the answers to those questions.

The Andromeda Hypothesis is centred around a collision between three starships that opens an exoversal rift in the spacetime continuum, reigniting an ancient war between two diametrically opposed factions, the Imagination Lords and the Sentinels. Also, there's a mathematician attempting to formulate a framework to unify and describe all of the universe's fundamental abstractions, a time-travelling con artist, and a Matrioshka brain that is rather infelicitous in its spiteful paroxysms.

It ought to be an interesting read; it will certainly be interesting to write. I intend for it to be erudite, incorporating a wide variety of conceptual knowledge from my own brain and from the multifarious Wikipedia articles I have opened in Google Chrome now (they will likely remain there for some time). Let's hope I don't turn out to be a half-witted cretin or something.

Don't forget to scrub the schlargenflork,
Volarion H. Wendsar