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Stellar IV: The Agents of Zierlux
Four strangers. One Dome. Every choice rewrites the future.
Memory wiped and chosen against their will, four agents awaken beneath a colossal Dome.
Drax, the prodigy son of a powerful legacy.
Lennox, an attorney from a nation where time itself is currency.
Varro, an engineer carrying grief that bends reality.
Sia, a radiant fighter hiding a dangerous mission of her own.
Together they are the Stellar IV — forced to represent rival nations inside a system where observation itself changes outcomes and love is the most dangerous weapon of all.
What to Expect
This is a slow burn before chaos. I wrote the opening to keep readers as disoriented as the characters themselves — because they wake up in a blur, and so do you. Then the frame sharpens, the stakes hit, and the pace doesn’t let up.
Stellar IV: The Agents of Zierlux isn’t built for casual readers. It’s bold, layered, and cinematic — designed for sci-fi fans who love mystery that builds before the explosion.
For readers who crave the scale of space opera, the tension of a psychological thriller, and the ambition of Pierce Brown, N.K. Jemisin, or Blake Crouch — this one is for you.
Memory wiped and chosen against their will, four agents awaken beneath a colossal Dome.
Drax, the prodigy son of a powerful legacy.
Lennox, an attorney from a nation where time itself is currency.
Varro, an engineer carrying grief that bends reality.
Sia, a radiant fighter hiding a dangerous mission of her own.
Together they are the Stellar IV — forced to represent rival nations inside a system where observation itself changes outcomes and love is the most dangerous weapon of all.
What to Expect
This is a slow burn before chaos. I wrote the opening to keep readers as disoriented as the characters themselves — because they wake up in a blur, and so do you. Then the frame sharpens, the stakes hit, and the pace doesn’t let up.
Stellar IV: The Agents of Zierlux isn’t built for casual readers. It’s bold, layered, and cinematic — designed for sci-fi fans who love mystery that builds before the explosion.
For readers who crave the scale of space opera, the tension of a psychological thriller, and the ambition of Pierce Brown, N.K. Jemisin, or Blake Crouch — this one is for you.
300 pages, Paperback
Published October 7, 2025
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About the author
T.W. Alexander
2 books6 followersAbout T.W. Alexander
Storyteller at heart. Strategist by design.
T.W. Alexander writes like the sky just cracked open and whispered a secret.
For over a decade, Alexander has been blending worldbuilding with soul work—crafting stories that don’t just entertain, they awaken. His debut novel, Stellar IV: The Agents of Zierlux, is a genre-bending sci-fi fantasy that explores memory, identity, and the price of power when the world is on the edge of collapse. Told with cinematic tension and spiritual undertones, the novel is part cosmic odyssey, part psychological reckoning.
Alexander is also the author of Ivan the Investor Kid: The ABCs of How Money Works, a vibrant children’s book teaching financial literacy through playful analogies and everyday empowerment—proving he can speak to the future in every age group.
When he’s not writing, you’ll find him decoding energy patterns, building immersive apps, and consulting purpose-driven brands on messaging that actually moves people. He believes clarity is luxury, and silence isn’t absence—it’s strategy.
T.W. is not here to fill space on your shelf.
He’s here to live in your head. Rent-free.
And maybe... change the way you see the world.
Storyteller at heart. Strategist by design.
T.W. Alexander writes like the sky just cracked open and whispered a secret.
For over a decade, Alexander has been blending worldbuilding with soul work—crafting stories that don’t just entertain, they awaken. His debut novel, Stellar IV: The Agents of Zierlux, is a genre-bending sci-fi fantasy that explores memory, identity, and the price of power when the world is on the edge of collapse. Told with cinematic tension and spiritual undertones, the novel is part cosmic odyssey, part psychological reckoning.
Alexander is also the author of Ivan the Investor Kid: The ABCs of How Money Works, a vibrant children’s book teaching financial literacy through playful analogies and everyday empowerment—proving he can speak to the future in every age group.
When he’s not writing, you’ll find him decoding energy patterns, building immersive apps, and consulting purpose-driven brands on messaging that actually moves people. He believes clarity is luxury, and silence isn’t absence—it’s strategy.
T.W. is not here to fill space on your shelf.
He’s here to live in your head. Rent-free.
And maybe... change the way you see the world.
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September 9, 2025
I had the privilege of reading this story with an advanced reader copy. This is a compelling debut to what I'm sure will be an adventurous series! The setting of the dome is futuristic and makes me think of other fantasy books I've read. It has mystical powers, like when they described the warm metal telescope remembering more than it saw.
At first I got Hunger Games vibes with the introduction of the main characters—Drax, Lennox, Sai, and Varro. They seemed like sacrificial delegates representing their unique groups. It made me want to learn more about: why them, what special powers did each have, how were they going to get along, and why were there people watching them from what seemed like a control room?
The fact that the dome seems to be able to read minds, and, through some implementation of mist, jerk the person out of their reverie, made me feel for them that they aren't able to daydream or breathe. They are under constant observation. The idea of bleeding time was interesting. Their minds have been wiped like Jason Bourne, but slowly, the memories creep back in, reminding them of who they used to be. I loved how we dropped right into the action and got to know the characters through flashbacks, exposing their wounds and motivations along the way.
Varro was a good example: "No one had ever spoken to him like this, like it mattered" clearly indicates a lack of support in his youth. There was also a recollection of quotes, like Lennox being told to "be the sharpest mind in the room or don't bother coming in," which is clearly a piercing expectation placed upon her as a youth. We get to relive her pain through her own eyes.
All of the characters seem to experience some anxiety about measuring before being measured, which is a principle of quantum entanglement.
Around page 50, everything starts to click when Chancellor Vinclap drops the real mission. Apparently these characters need to work together because their chips create "2 souls, one signal," (love this concept) and they screwed up so badly last time they eradicated part of the planet. The voice says that they are going to be with him for 6 months, establishing a time constraint and goal.
The idea that consciousness and soul and thoughts could be small enough to adhere to the properties of quantum entanglement is delightfully similar to some other books I've read and drafted. I love authors who aren't afraid to question the laws of physics like that and imagine what could be.
The author has an incredible gift for small details that stick with you or punctuate a scene, like coffee steam wafting through a woman's fingers... "a secret not yet told," or strip lights pulsing in time with footsteps.
While there's humor and narrative buzz like inside jokes about 'leg day,' there are also deeper messages woven throughout the book. Some of my favorite quotes or lines were:
“Opportunity… rises where the limit lies.”
"The wealth you carry... Is kinetic power in motion."
"...smile flickered... Like static skipping through silk."
I loved the unexpected twists at the end, and that the characters seem connected through parallel worlds, with hints of knowing each other from some former life. I love what we learned in the end about each of the worlds representing the different dimensions of financial, social, time, and spiritual wealth.
In the final scene, I imagined myself having these moments of déjà vu in midday when it feels like an uncontrollable dream state has taken over, giving flashbacks to something I experienced in my subconscious. It made me wonder if we are, indeed, living in a multiverse and experiencing parallel realities without knowing it.
In the next book, please build out the story around the Toti Tree!! I want to know more!
At first I got Hunger Games vibes with the introduction of the main characters—Drax, Lennox, Sai, and Varro. They seemed like sacrificial delegates representing their unique groups. It made me want to learn more about: why them, what special powers did each have, how were they going to get along, and why were there people watching them from what seemed like a control room?
The fact that the dome seems to be able to read minds, and, through some implementation of mist, jerk the person out of their reverie, made me feel for them that they aren't able to daydream or breathe. They are under constant observation. The idea of bleeding time was interesting. Their minds have been wiped like Jason Bourne, but slowly, the memories creep back in, reminding them of who they used to be. I loved how we dropped right into the action and got to know the characters through flashbacks, exposing their wounds and motivations along the way.
Varro was a good example: "No one had ever spoken to him like this, like it mattered" clearly indicates a lack of support in his youth. There was also a recollection of quotes, like Lennox being told to "be the sharpest mind in the room or don't bother coming in," which is clearly a piercing expectation placed upon her as a youth. We get to relive her pain through her own eyes.
All of the characters seem to experience some anxiety about measuring before being measured, which is a principle of quantum entanglement.
Around page 50, everything starts to click when Chancellor Vinclap drops the real mission. Apparently these characters need to work together because their chips create "2 souls, one signal," (love this concept) and they screwed up so badly last time they eradicated part of the planet. The voice says that they are going to be with him for 6 months, establishing a time constraint and goal.
The idea that consciousness and soul and thoughts could be small enough to adhere to the properties of quantum entanglement is delightfully similar to some other books I've read and drafted. I love authors who aren't afraid to question the laws of physics like that and imagine what could be.
The author has an incredible gift for small details that stick with you or punctuate a scene, like coffee steam wafting through a woman's fingers... "a secret not yet told," or strip lights pulsing in time with footsteps.
While there's humor and narrative buzz like inside jokes about 'leg day,' there are also deeper messages woven throughout the book. Some of my favorite quotes or lines were:
“Opportunity… rises where the limit lies.”
"The wealth you carry... Is kinetic power in motion."
"...smile flickered... Like static skipping through silk."
I loved the unexpected twists at the end, and that the characters seem connected through parallel worlds, with hints of knowing each other from some former life. I love what we learned in the end about each of the worlds representing the different dimensions of financial, social, time, and spiritual wealth.
In the final scene, I imagined myself having these moments of déjà vu in midday when it feels like an uncontrollable dream state has taken over, giving flashbacks to something I experienced in my subconscious. It made me wonder if we are, indeed, living in a multiverse and experiencing parallel realities without knowing it.
In the next book, please build out the story around the Toti Tree!! I want to know more!
November 4, 2025
T.W. Alexander’s “Stellar IV: The Agents of Zierlux” follows the adventures of four strangers – each a representative of the four remaining nations on planet Zierlux. The four are abducted, and after their memories are erased to facilitate emotional calmness, they are sent to an international space center - S4UC, the Stellar IV Universe Center.
The four strangers - Sia, Drax, Lennox, and Varro, are very different people who must learn to use their individual and collective strengths to carry out their duties and assignments. The fate of their nations and planet depend on their success.
“Stellar IV” is an interesting novel, but one that may take uninitiated readers a while to understand because the book’s first few chapters are admixtures of commands from, and separate actions by, an initially unidentified entity. This could potentially leave readers lost in space until later chapters when identities, actions, and the premise of the story become clearer.
Once that happens, the character and plot developments gradually unfold. What follows is a play-by-play account of a contest pitting human resourcefulness against internal and external conflicts.
T.W. Alexander has given readers a book that is imaginative, interesting, and the basis for a franchise of future novels. One can only wonder if the addition of an introduction or glossary at the beginning of the book might give readers a head start to understanding the characters, entities, and situations that are to follow.
As is, “Stellar IV” should find avid readership in the sci-fi community. What’s more, the book is sure to be enthusiastically read by that sub-set of the community that enjoys stories about travels through outer space, the exploration of mysterious planets, and the facing of unknown challenges.
The four strangers - Sia, Drax, Lennox, and Varro, are very different people who must learn to use their individual and collective strengths to carry out their duties and assignments. The fate of their nations and planet depend on their success.
“Stellar IV” is an interesting novel, but one that may take uninitiated readers a while to understand because the book’s first few chapters are admixtures of commands from, and separate actions by, an initially unidentified entity. This could potentially leave readers lost in space until later chapters when identities, actions, and the premise of the story become clearer.
Once that happens, the character and plot developments gradually unfold. What follows is a play-by-play account of a contest pitting human resourcefulness against internal and external conflicts.
T.W. Alexander has given readers a book that is imaginative, interesting, and the basis for a franchise of future novels. One can only wonder if the addition of an introduction or glossary at the beginning of the book might give readers a head start to understanding the characters, entities, and situations that are to follow.
As is, “Stellar IV” should find avid readership in the sci-fi community. What’s more, the book is sure to be enthusiastically read by that sub-set of the community that enjoys stories about travels through outer space, the exploration of mysterious planets, and the facing of unknown challenges.
November 9, 2025
I stumbled upon "Stellar IV: The Agents of Zierlux" while browsing for new sci-fi series on Kindle, and boy, am I glad I did! As someone who's devoured the previous books in the Stellar series, this one ramps up the tension in all the right ways. T.W. Alexander has crafted a world on Zierlux that's rich and immersive, with four nations teetering on the edge of peace or war. The story follows these four unlikely agents—Sia, Drax, Lennox, and Varro—who get thrown together at this massive space center. Each comes from totally different backgrounds, and watching them clash and eventually bond is one of the highlights.
What I loved most is how the book balances high-octane space adventures with deeper themes like loyalty, temptation, and uncovering hidden truths about their planet. The moral dilemmas feel real and had me second-guessing what I'd do in their shoes. The pacing is spot-on; it starts a bit slow to build the world and characters, but once the missions kick in, I couldn't put it down. At over 500 pages, it might seem daunting, but the writing flows so well that it reads quicker than you'd think. No major spoilers, but the way secrets unfold kept me hooked till the end.
If I had one tiny nitpick, it's that some of the technical space jargon got a tad overwhelming at times, but it adds to the authenticity without bogging things down. Overall, this is a fantastic addition to the series—full of bravery, a touch of romance, and epic unity against the odds. If you're into stories like "The Expanse" or "Dune" with a team dynamic twist, grab this now. Can't wait for whatever comes next from Alexander! Highly recommended.
What I loved most is how the book balances high-octane space adventures with deeper themes like loyalty, temptation, and uncovering hidden truths about their planet. The moral dilemmas feel real and had me second-guessing what I'd do in their shoes. The pacing is spot-on; it starts a bit slow to build the world and characters, but once the missions kick in, I couldn't put it down. At over 500 pages, it might seem daunting, but the writing flows so well that it reads quicker than you'd think. No major spoilers, but the way secrets unfold kept me hooked till the end.
If I had one tiny nitpick, it's that some of the technical space jargon got a tad overwhelming at times, but it adds to the authenticity without bogging things down. Overall, this is a fantastic addition to the series—full of bravery, a touch of romance, and epic unity against the odds. If you're into stories like "The Expanse" or "Dune" with a team dynamic twist, grab this now. Can't wait for whatever comes next from Alexander! Highly recommended.
October 21, 2025
Let me start by saying this isn’t my usual type of read. I don’t typically gravitate too much outside of romance but I love fantasy and I’ve read my fair share of sci-fi, but I’m glad I gave this one a try. Despite the page count, it’s an easy book to get through. If it were formatted a little differently, I’d estimate it would come out to around 300 pages.
I’ll admit, I’m not a big fan of third-person narration, and at first I was a little confused about what was happening. I even went back to make sure it wasn’t a sequel I’d missed! But as the story progressed, everything started coming together beautifully. TW Alexander did a really nice job weaving the plot and characters, and I ended up enjoying it much more than I expected. I’d definitely be open to reading more from this author in the future.
I’ll admit, I’m not a big fan of third-person narration, and at first I was a little confused about what was happening. I even went back to make sure it wasn’t a sequel I’d missed! But as the story progressed, everything started coming together beautifully. TW Alexander did a really nice job weaving the plot and characters, and I ended up enjoying it much more than I expected. I’d definitely be open to reading more from this author in the future.
November 14, 2025
This is an intriguing story featuring four main characters: Dax, Lennon, Varro, and Sia. They face challenges that are both life-defining and threatening as they embark on a mission to save their planet. The author skillfully blends elements of science fiction with explorations of how the laws of quantum physics relate to our deepest connections with one another. Through the characters' growing understanding of themselves and each other, new and mysterious possibilities begin to unfold.
I particularly enjoyed the poetic descriptions that vividly portrayed the characters’ personalities, cultures, and the exotic locations they visited. Numerous delightful metaphors provided insights into the characters and their evolving dilemmas. This is a read to savor slowly and with care.
I particularly enjoyed the poetic descriptions that vividly portrayed the characters’ personalities, cultures, and the exotic locations they visited. Numerous delightful metaphors provided insights into the characters and their evolving dilemmas. This is a read to savor slowly and with care.
October 21, 2025
It was a mind blowing read. So perfect for sci-fi lovers. The story is about how 4 individuals from humble and very different background are bought together for a space program, Stellar IV with the aim to save the only remaining 4 countries, each represented by them. The author has very beautifully represented how each one has to navigate through their own conflicts and dilemmas to be able to deal external threats and complete the mission.
Loved the book so much.
Loved the book so much.
October 22, 2025
This reads like a mash-up of sci-fi adventure and moral drama. Sometimes a bit heavy on detail, but the story and characters carry it. Really enjoyed the teamwork dynamic.
November 18, 2025
A richly imaginative and character-driven sci-fi adventure that starts intriguing, grows gripping, and ultimately delivers a beautifully woven, unforgettable story.
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