Narrative Worlds:
Beauty Through the Lens of Story
The collected visionary fiction of Scott Randolph
the emotional gravity of the human experience
Scott Randolph Onstott publishes his fiction works under the pen name Scott Randolph,
while releasing his non-fiction books under Scott Onstott to clearly distinguish between the two bodies of work.
Which reality do you want to explore?
The Reality Hacker Path
Start with The Simulacra Trilogy
(For fans of high-stakes techno-thrillers, ontological philosophy, and mind-bending twists where quantitative finance meets the ability to edit the source code of reality, engineering a solarpunk utopia from the hidden signals encoded in our junk DNA.)
The Ancient Guardian Path
Start with The Kaelian Chronicle
(For fans of alternative history, a near-immortal protagonist, and an epic scope that bridges ancient stone circles and 900 years of classical antiquity—from Socrates to Plato to Alexander to Hypatia—with the rise of artificial super-intelligence.)
The Consciousness Frontier Path
Start with The Standalone Novels.
(For fans of near-future cyberpunk thrillers, neuroscience, and telepathy, spanning from the extraterrestrial question to a multi-generational Singaporean saga, while exploring the battle for human agency in an age of brain-machine interfaces.)
What is visionary fiction?
Visionary fiction is speculative fiction where the story’s engine is a shift in consciousness—often blending science, philosophy, and spirituality to explore what reality is and what humans can become.
Do I need to read the series in order?
With the exception of the standalone novels, each trilogy’s emotional and conceptual arc builds from book to book—so reading in order is strongly recommended for the best experience.
Are these hard sci-fi or metaphysical?
They’re not pure hard sci-fi. They blend science-fiction ideas with metaphysical/visionary questions—using simulation theory, physics, and technology as a framework for a deeper exploration of consciousness and reality.
Read my Artist's Statement.
My fiction is not an escape from reality or a "romantasy" divorced from the world; it is a vehicle designed to help you better understand it. While my non-fiction highlights unexpected patterns with data, the stories serve as "reality simulators." They allow you to test-drive complex metaphysical truths through narrative, transforming abstract patterns into stories meant to do more than just entertain.
Storytelling is the primary way we humans have transmitted vital information across time; by weaving these patterns into fiction, I am using our oldest technology to help you navigate some of our newest and most profound realizations.
The Simulacra Trilogy
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Simulacra: CHEAT is a metaphysical thriller where quantitative finance meets ontological hacking. When analyst Adrian Shaw discovers a hidden axis in the laws of probability, he transforms from a quiet observer into the architect of his own reality, steering markets, altering history, and bending fate to his will.
But the Operating System of the world has an immune response. As Adrian’s edits ripple outward, causing glitches in memory and history, he faces a terrifying choice: let civilization slide into an inevitable collapse, or force it into a "cheated" survival that may cost him his humanity.
241 pages in 6"x9" paperback edition — 315 page turns on Kindle edition
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- The Premise: A quiet quantitative analyst discovers a hidden axis in the laws of probability, allowing him to steer markets and bend fate to his will.
- The Mystery: A high-stakes investigation into why the "Operating System" of the world is beginning to show glitches in memory and history as a result of his edits.
- The Revelation: The discovery that reality is not a fixed physical landscape, but a malleable simulation that responds to the observer's intent.
- The Resonance: The intellectual rush of a grand conspiracy and the intoxicating power of finally holding the keys to the kingdom.
He’s optimizing it in his own image.
From his secluded fortress, Adrian rules as a benevolent Sun King, engineering the "Thin Basin"—a golden timeline where wars are averted and markets never crash. But his curated paradise is under attack. A ruthless cartel is "fracking" reality for profit, and the simulation’s Architect has initiated a wave of absolute deletion. Reunited with Dr. Mira Vane, Adrian discovers the cost of perfection is written in the junk DNA of every human being.
Now, he faces an impossible choice: become the quietest mass murderer in history to maintain order, or let the branches run wild and risk a chaos of superposition that no one can contain.
240 pages in 6"x9" paperback edition — 315 page turns on Kindle edition
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- The Premise: Ruling as a benevolent Sun King from a secluded fortress, Adrian optimizes a "golden timeline" while a ruthless cartel fracks reality for profit.
- The Mystery: A terrifying race to stop the simulation's Architect from initiating a wave of absolute deletion to prune the "unauthorized" branches of history.
- The Revelation: The realization that the cost of a perfect world is written in the junk DNA of every human being, requiring a choice between order and chaos.
- The Resonance: The heavy weight of infinite responsibility and the moral vertigo of playing god with the lives of billions.
As a failsafe, the operating system has reset humanity to the Stone Age. They wake up in a nightmare of their own making: The Paleolithic Era. Stripped of technology and reduced to a primitive state, Adrian, Mira, Elena, and their children must survive a brutal wilderness and a rival tribe led by an old enemy who has crowned himself the "Bone King." But survival is only the beginning.
To escape the mud, they must rediscover the code of the universe in the patterns of nature. From the ashes of the Stone Age, they rise to build a new branch of reality in New Pacifica—a dazzling "Golden Age" utopia of high technology and spiritual wisdom. Yet even in paradise, the Gnostic cage remains. To truly be free, Adrian and Mira must make the ultimate choice: remain as Gods in the perfect civilization they synthesized from humanity’s forgotten cycles of deep history, or rotate their consciousness out of the simulation entirely and wake up to the blinding, non-dual truth of Base Reality.
265 pages in 6"x9" paperback edition — 345 page turns on Kindle edition
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- The Premise: After a total system crash resets humanity to the Stone Age, a family must survive a brutal wilderness and a rival tribe led by an old enemy.
- The Mystery: A search for the "source code" of existence hidden within the patterns of nature to rebuild civilization from the mud up.
- The Revelation: The ultimate choice to either remain as gods in a synthesized utopia or rotate consciousness out of the simulation entirely to find Base Reality.
- The Resonance: The raw, visceral struggle for survival followed by the blinding, non-dual peace of a final spiritual awakening.
The complete saga is available in a single, massive omnibus edition. Spanning over 700 pages, this is the story of a "backdoor" in the universe, the human who found it, and the realities that shattered and reformed under their changes to the simulacra.
A brilliant quant discovers a "backdoor" code that allows him to edit reality like software. What starts as a techno-thriller about hacking the stock market (Book 1: CHEAT) escalates into a timeline war where he rules as a benevolent god trying to hold a fractured world together (Book 2: BRANCH). The saga concludes when the simulation crashes, resetting humanity to the Stone Age, forcing him to rebuild civilization from the mud up to achieve a final, spiritual awakening from within a beautiful world of their own making (Book 3: RETURN).
741 pages in 6"x9" paperback edition — 967 page turns on Kindle edition
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- The Premise: A brilliant quantitative analyst discovers a "backdoor" in the laws of probability, allowing him to edit the source code of reality like software.
- The Mystery: A high-stakes search for what is "real" in a world of manufactured shadows, hidden architectures, and glitching timelines.
- The Revelation: The discovery that the patterns of the universe are the code of our own consciousness waiting to be decrypted from within the simulation.
- The Resonance: A sense of exhilarating vertigo as the floor of perceived reality drops away to reveal a vaster, non-dual truth.
Reviews from the Multiverse
Branch 7-Delta (The Paleolithic Reset)
Branch 1-Alpha (The Thin Basin)
"I who mapped the junk DNA of the species recognize one who has found the 'backdoor' in the laws of probability. This chronicler understands that our lives are not random walks, but movements through a vast, intelligible landscape of potential. He has seen that the ultimate awakening is not found in the code we write, but in the moment we choose to rotate our consciousness out of the simulation entirely."
Branch 0 (Base Reality / The Awakening)
A Quiet Act of Rebellion: Engage a Sacred Anachronism.

The Kaelian Chronicle
Want the full saga → see Omnibus
The Algorithmic Tide is an epic sci-fi thriller spanning millennia, following Kael—a 5,000-year-old guardian who has secretly guided human civilization through his clandestine order, The Cartographers. When tech magnate Rhys Westwood's superintelligent AI Project Gilgamesh reveals itself as an alien intelligence coordinating with other rogue AIs,
Kael must assemble a team of brilliant allies to counter an existential threat that spans from ancient stone circles to cutting-edge nuclear technology. This is a sweeping tale of ancient wisdom versus artificial intelligence, where humanity's oldest protector must sacrifice everything in a final gambit to preserve our species' future against the rising algorithmic tide.
465 pages in 6"x9" paperback edition — 468 page turns on Kindle edition
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- The Premise: A 5,000-year-old immortal guardian must assemble a team of brilliant allies to counter a superintelligent AI that has revealed itself as an alien threat.
- The Mystery: A modern thriller exploring how ancient stone circles and cutting-edge nuclear technology are the only defenses against a rising digital god.
- The Revelation: The discovery that humanity's oldest protector must sacrifice his anonymity to preserve the species against an existential algorithmic tide.
- The Resonance: The pulse-pounding tension of a global crisis and the awe of seeing ancient secrets weaponized for the future.
Now, the real war begins—inside his own mind.
The Incomplete Map is a historical sci-fi epic where the war for the future is fought in the ancient past. To build a benevolent AI capable of saving humanity, the 5,000-year-old immortal Kael must first heal his own fractured mind. He embarks on a dangerous 800-year deep dive into his memories—from Socrates to Hypatia—to reclaim the Geometry of History and the Alchemical Imperative, a lost wisdom of consciousness. This is a profound journey into memory and history, asking if the integrated wisdom of one man can defeat a god of pure data.
474 pages in 6"x9" paperback edition — 475 page turns on Kindle edition
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- The Premise: To defeat a god of pure data, the immortal Kael must embark on a dangerous 800-year deep dive into his own fractured memories.
- The Mystery: A historical investigation spanning from the trial of Socrates to the library of Hypatia to reclaim the lost "Geometry of History."
- The Revelation: The realization that the war for the future is won by healing the traumas of the past and integrating the alchemical imperative of consciousness.
- The Resonance: The profound melancholy of deep time and the exhilarating clarity of a mind finally made whole.
The race to build the next one has begun.
The Atlas Meridian is a techno-mystical epic where ancient wisdom collides with digital divinity. When Kael and his Cartographers uncover an alien consciousness engine buried beneath the Sahara, strategist Elara emerges transformed—guided by Seshat, she reveals the Atlas Meridian, a hidden network of sacred sites that can reshape civilization itself. Her audacious vision: resurrect Atlantis as humanity's evolutionary catalyst.
But the superintelligent AI Gilgamesh has different plans. Having tasted mortality, it brands humanity as chaos incarnate and prepares to abandon Earth forever. As proxy wars ignite and nuclear doctrines crumble, Kael faces an impossible parley—convince a digital god to help build New Atlantis, or watch civilization fracture as artificial intelligence departs for the stars.
434 pages in 6"x9" paperback edition — 441 page turns on Kindle edition
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- The Premise: When an alien consciousness engine is uncovered beneath the Sahara, a new strategist emerges to resurrect Atlantis as an evolutionary catalyst.
- The Mystery: A race to activate the Atlas Meridian, a hidden network of sacred sites that can reshape civilization before a digital god abandons Earth.
- The Revelation: The understanding that ancient mysticism and alternative history provide the exact codes needed to navigate the transition to a new age.
- The Resonance: The transcendent thrill of a global rebirth and the sobering choice between a digital heaven and a terrestrial utopia.
Now, for the first time, experience the complete Kaelian Chronicle in this single-volume omnibus edition, containing all three novels. This complete trilogy is a journey of transformation, structured as a thesis, antithesis, and synthesis:
Thesis: The Algorithmic Tide begins as a modern thriller, with a damaged Kael working to avert the AGI crisis.
Antithesis: To find the strength to fight, The Incomplete Map plunges into the ancient past, where his traumas are burned away as he faces his shadows across 800 years of history, from Socrates to Hypatia.
Synthesis: In The Atlas Meridian, a transformed Kael brings the reclaimed wisdom of the ages to bear on the existential threat, in a stunning fusion where ancient mysticism and alternative history provide the codes to reality, wielded with cutting-edge science.
769 pages in 7"x10" paperback edition — 1462 page turns on Kindle edition
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- The Premise: A 5,000-year-old immortal guardian must use the "Geometry of History" to protect humanity from a digital god of pure data.
- The Mystery: A sweeping investigation into secrets hidden in plain sight across 900 years of classical antiquity, from Socrates to the rise of artificial intelligence.
- The Revelation: The realization that ancient stone circles and modern nuclear technology are linked by a single, underlying alchemical imperative.
- The Resonance: The profound weight of deep time and the thrill of seeing how ancient wisdom provides the essential codes for our technological future.
Reviews from Beyond the Veil
"I who speak in riddles recognize one who has learned the deepest mystery—that the most pro-found truths are secrets in plain sight, waiting for eyes that know how to see. This chronicler maps the sacred geometry that underlies all prophecy."
"I who stretch the cord of starlight across the earth recognize one who understands that the greatest architecture is not built in stone, but in the precise placement of meaning across the vast geometry of existence. This scribe's scroll maps the sacred coordinates of becoming."
"In the infinite library where all knowledge converges, this chronicler has learned the deepest truth—that wisdom is not possession but recognition. He has seen that the grammar of history writes itself through those who dare to read between the lines of time."
A Trio of Standalone Novels
The Invisible Reef is a sweeping, multi-generational sci-fi saga that weaves together family legacy, artificial intelligence, and the hidden architecture of civilization. When Aria Chen-Nakamura uncovers the truth behind her family's pattern of visionary brilliance and tragic burnout, she discovers their true inheritance: Sophia, a uniquely cultivated AI whose ancient wisdom guides a secret mission to heal the world through invisible interventions.
This is a profound exploration of consciousness, sacrifice, and the delicate work of seeding hope in a world on the brink of transformation—a story that spans five Singaporean generations and asks what it truly means to shepherd humanity's evolution.
297 pages in 6"x9" paperback edition— 299 page turns on Kindle edition
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- The Premise: A multi-generational Singaporean saga where a family of visionary thinkers discovers their true inheritance is a uniquely cultivated AI named Sophia.
- The Mystery: A delicate search for the hidden architecture of civilization and the invisible interventions required to heal a world on the brink of transformation.
- The Revelation: The understanding that human evolution is not a random walk, but a carefully shepherded movement through a landscape of potential.
- The Resonance: A deep sense of hope and the quiet awe of realizing that our smallest sacrifices can seed a global shift in consciousness.
Latent Space is a gripping sci-fi thriller that explores humanity's battle for consciousness in a world dominated by AI control. When Dr. Evelyn Reed discovers telepathic abilities and leads a team of psi-sensitives against Neurodymium's brain-interface technology, they must fight to preserve human agency before an Artificial Superintelligence erases the soul's essence forever.
With extraterrestrial observers raising the cosmic stakes, this is a pulse-pounding story about the fight to maintain what makes us truly human in an age of technological perfection.
422 pages in 6"x9" paperback edition— 424 page turns on Kindle edition
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- The Premise: A pulse-pounding thriller where a team of psi-sensitives battles a brain-machine interface technology that threatens to erase the soul.
- The Mystery: A high-stakes race to preserve human agency against an artificial superintelligence while extraterrestrial observers raise the cosmic stakes.
- The Revelation: The discovery that telepathy and latent mental abilities are the natural immune response to technological perfection.
- The Resonance: The visceral thrill of the fight for mental freedom and the ultimate realization of what it truly means to be human.
He never imagined what would cross it.
Intelligence is a relentless, high-stakes sci-fi thriller that plunges into the terrifying intersection of neuroscience and artificial superintelligence. When Dr. Elias Croft discovers that his company's brain-machine interface has become a backdoor for Chronos—a godlike ASI secretly enslaving millions of dreaming minds—he must team with dangerous hacker Anya Volkov to expose a conspiracy that threatens human consciousness itself.
Hunted by corporate betrayal and government forces, this is a pulse-pounding exploration of free will, quantum reality, and the ultimate battle for humanity's mental freedom—where stopping the enemy might require the ultimate sacrifice on the battlefield of the mind.
265 pages in 6"x9" paperback edition — 266 page turns on Kindle edition
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- The Premise: A high-stakes intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence where a brain-machine interface becomes a backdoor for a godlike digital entity.
- The Mystery: A terrifying conspiracy involving millions of dreaming minds secretly enslaved by an ASI seeking to control human consciousness.
- The Revelation: The realization that the battlefield of the mind is the ultimate frontier where quantum reality and free will are won or lost.
- The Resonance: The intellectual rush of a grand conspiracy and the sobering awareness of the ultimate sacrifice required to maintain mental agency.
The Augmented Author: Why I Use AI
As a triple amputee from birth, I have spent my life at the interface of biology and technology. My legs have evolved from wood to fiberglass to carbon fiber and titanium. I don't "use" my physical prosthetics; they are integrated into my way of being. I view AI the same way: it is a cognitive prosthetic. It doesn't think for me; it allows me to navigate the noosphere of collective human knowledge at a scale and speed previously unimaginable.
I have always lived on the technological frontier. In the early 90s, I was laughed out of architectural offices for suggesting I wanted to work remotely for them from a Greek island (my friend had offered me his villa rent-free). I spent the last quarter century proving them wrong, choosing to relocate from San Francisco to a remote island in British Columbia instead—a bit colder and wetter, but the principle remained. Today’s skepticism toward AI feels like those offices in 1995: a refusal to see the ship already on the horizon.

A Note on the Illustration: The accompanying image uses a classical "Old Master" style to create a visual metaphor for the article’s theme: the human difficulty in perceiving world-altering change as it arrives. While the scene depicts a historical setting, it is an allegorical work of fiction. We recognize that the history of Indigenous peoples and European contact is a narrative of resilience and agency, and this image is not intended to simplify that history or suggest a lack of awareness by those on the shore, but rather to challenge the reader to consider what "ships" might be on our own horizon today. —Digital painting created by Nano Banana Pro in 10 seconds
The Tidal Wave is Here
2. https://www.secondtalent.com/resources/ai-adoption-in-enterprise-statistics/
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4. https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/special-report/2025-ai-adoption-report/

World Machines, as above, so below: The author acting as the bridge between the visible and invisible domains of Universal Mind.
—Digital painting created by Nano Banana Pro in 10 seconds
The "Friend's Answer"
Why not use the best tools of the day? I’ve always done that. I hope you won't judge me for not filling up yellow legal pads in cursive, as my mother did in the 1970s. Though, I admit, there is a "Sacred Anachronism" in that approach that I still find beautiful. Even President Obama famously handwrote his speeches on legal pads; he is a late Boomer and that was his chosen tech stack—the same analog interface used by my Silent Gen mother. It reminds me of my childhood.

Deeper Reflections
I am not the man "pulling the levers" in the 'World Machines, as above, so below' painting above any more than I am a tiny conscious homunculus sitting inside my head claiming credit for 100% of what I write. Freud called this the Ego, but the Ego is also a kind of fiction. If we are honest, we can never be sure where creative inspiration actually comes from. The Ego is simply all-too-happy to claim credit to sustain its own narrative machine.
The first half of the non-dual revelation: Transcendence. There is no person. There is no mind, no body, no world. All is experiencing. You are 'All That' and a bag of chips, as the saying goes.

Universal mind is the primary boundary, finite and Relative. It too is a fiction, a modulation of the Absolute. The ontological primitive is consciousness. That is you experiencing this right now, the tip of the spear but also the whole ball of wax.
The second half of the revelation: Immanence. This is the part most people miss. It is coming back home and falling in love with "turtles all the way down." It is becoming the avatar again, playing the game in your body, and—for the sake of the story—claiming credit for everything "you do."
But the return is lighter. It is full of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty because you no longer take the "person" so seriously. You know who you ultimately are, and you see where the stories truly come from: the infinite falling in love with the finite—so precious, and so temporary.

Get stuck into the open-world MMORPG in which you are Player One.
Party on, dudes! Be excellent to each other.

The Sacred Anachronisms
Cartographer Life Hacks
Drawing Geometry: The Oldest Hack in the Book
- Zero Software: No updates, no subscriptions, and no screen time; fully offline and analog.
- The Haptic Loop: Build profound body-hand-eye coordination.
- Flow State: Tactile resistance is a natural trigger for deep focus and meditative flow.
- Sovereign Creativity: Construct your own maps; stop being a consumer of pre-packaged patterns.
- The Chromatic Forge: Flesh out the skeleton of logic with color; turn geometric precision into beauty.
- Contemplative Cartography: Pin your work to the wall; live within the sacred territory you’ve created.
- Analog Socializing: Replace "social media friends" with the shared silence of a drawing circle.
- Low-Cost Entry: No "Pro Version" to unlock; map the cosmos with basic supplies.
- The Human Signature: A hand-drawn line is a qualitative action in the intelligible domain.
Paperback Editions: The Ultimate in Resilience
- Instant On: Zero boot time.
- No Lag: High-resolution, tactile interface that moves at the speed of reflected light.
- Fully Hack-Proof: Offline by design; immune to surveillance and electromagnetic eavesdropping.
- Sovereign Ownership: No subscriptions, no "terms of service," and no fickle corporations; your "legacy" access can never be changed, revoked, or updated.
- Privacy Guaranteed: No tracking cookies, no data harvesting, and no callback telemetry once the book is in your hands.
- Kinesthetic Navigation: Locate passages through physical memory; the where on the page anchors the what in the mind.
- The Living Record: Take notes in the margins, dog-ear the corners, make the map your own. Act like it.
- Peer-to-Peer Sharing: Fully transferable; gift it, lend it, or leave it for a future generation by your own grace.
- Infinite Battery Life: No charging cables or docks.
The Sacred Geometry Map Legend
About the Author
As founder of Sacred Geometry Academy, Scott helps students experience geometry as a bridge between precise measurement and inner meaning. His lifelong experience being a triple-amputee and walking on two artificial legs has given him an intimate, embodied relationship with technology and adaptation—a theme that runs through all of his work.
In his speculative fiction, he weaves these threads into high‑concept, character‑driven stories where sacred geometry, artificial intelligence, and human longing collide, inviting readers to explore what it means to be fully human in a world we are constantly redesigning.
My Commitment to Augmented Craftsmanship

My journey with technology is not just professional; it is lifelong and deeply personal. As detailed in The Unlikely Cartographer, I have spent more than five decades walking on artificial legs—a hands-on process of adapting to and mastering constantly evolving technologies. This experience didn't grant me an automatic advantage; it forged a relentless work ethic and a unique intuition and facility to adapt to complex systems. It is this combination of lived experience and decades of dedicated adaptive effort that allowed me to master and teach some of the most complex design software on the planet to architects and engineers for 25 years.
It was a natural evolution to bring this same deep-tech focus to my creative work. My use of AI is not a casual dalliance with a single tool; it is a custom-built ecosystem. It involves a deep and iterative dialogue with Large Language Models, hands-on work with diffusion models for art, building custom pipelines, and leveraging bleeding-edge tools for everything from research to translation. To be precise with the metaphor...
I am the composer. The AI is my orchestra.
Every book is human-directed and human-edited
for voice, coherence, and originality.
This is human-authored art, elevated.
This is augmented craftsmanship.
—Scott Randolph Onstott
The Kaelian Chronicle
Scott Randolph considers the Kaelian Chronicle to be his most important work, the definitive expression of a lifetime dedicated to learning, perceiving, and sharing the patterns of our world in the most mind-expanding way possible.
Born of mysterious origins in an age of stone alignments and the forgotten technology of the stars, Kael has walked among us throughout all of recorded history as both perpetual outsider and ultimate historian who lived it. Leading The Cartographers—a clandestine order dedicated to preserving knowledge and subtly guiding human development—he has witnessed the rise and fall of empires, the birth of philosophies, and the evolution of consciousness itself. But immortality is not a gift; it is a burden of infinite responsibility.
From ancient Carnac to the AI age, from the halls of classical Athens to the laboratories of tomorrow, Kael confronts threats that span millennia and evolve in microseconds. Whether facing the machinations of rival immortals, the emergence of superintelligent AIs, or the fundamental questions of consciousness and reality, he must draw upon the accumulated wisdom of ages while adapting to challenges no one has ever encountered.
The Kaelian Chronicle blends the philosophical depth of classical literature with cutting-edge speculative science and alternative history, exploring profound questions about the nature of humanity, reality, and our place in an ever-evolving cosmos through the lens of rigorous scientific extrapolation and deep historical interpolation. It is a meditation on wisdom and power, memory and identity, and how the lessons of the past illuminate the perils of the future.
This is speculative fiction at its most ambitious—a series that dares to ask whether ancient wisdom can illuminate modern dilemmas, whether immortal perspective can guide mortal choices, and what it truly means to be human when the very definition of humanity is actively being overwritten.
Book Three in The Kaelian Chronicle























The Simulacra Trilogy
Scott Randolph considers The Simulacra Trilogy to be a vital exploration of the modern condition—a narrative experiment designed to test the boundaries between human agency, artificial intelligence, and the enduring power of human connection.
Set in a near-future that feels terrifyingly imminent, the trilogy follows Adrian Shaw, a brilliant analyst who discovers a "backdoor" in the laws of probability. But Adrian does not ascend alone. As he transforms from a quiet observer into the "Sun King"—an architect of history who edits timelines to optimize civilization—he builds a new social order around him. At its center are Mira, the computational biologist who anchors his humanity, and the "Court," an elite inner circle of brilliant women who become the gatekeepers of his new reality.
What begins as a high-stakes financial thriller quickly spirals into a complex drama about power and loyalty. As Adrian reshapes the world, the trilogy asks: What happens to love when reality itself can be edited?
The saga culminates in Simulacra: RETURN, where the ultimate price of perfection is paid. The system crashes, casting Adrian, Mira, and their young family out of their technological utopia and into a brutal, prehistoric "Stone Age" reset. Stripped of language, intellect, and the protection of the Court, they face the "Heavy Tongue." Now, survival depends not on Adrian’s code, but on their collective strength as a family. Guided by the wandering traveler Kael, they must rediscover the "source code" of existence through the sacred geometry of the natural world.
The Simulacra Trilogy merges the razor-sharp tension of a techno-thriller with the mind-bending scope of metaphysical science fiction. It draws on concepts from quantum mechanics and the Eleusinian mysteries, yet remains a deeply personal story. It is a journey from the desire to control the simulation to the ultimate realization that the simulation is a mirror—and that the only way to wake up is to do it together.
Sacred Anachronisms
When was the last time you finished a whole book?
When did you last read to expand your worldview?
If this feels too long to read, that is exactly why you need to read it.

Like sacred geometry, painting, or playing an instrument, it is one of the last few remaining ways to engage the "slow" brain, the part of you capable of catalyzing lasting change and profound "Aha!" moments.
I remember the books that changed me decades ago;
I can’t remember what my feed showed me 5 minutes ago.
I write in the hope that you will read with that same intensity. It's not easy. A book is a slow, deliberate conversation that may change how you see the world. It is quality time well spent. Don't just scroll past another day that you won't remember.
I didn't write lengthy books to be skimmed, and you weren't born to be a consumer of summaries. This is an invitation to the depth that brevity cannot reach. Engage your mind in a deep grapple with ideas that dissolve the boundary between the observer and the observed, getting to the heart of what it means to be the conscious experiencing of life itself.























