Scott Randolph's Fiction

He built the bridge between minds.
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.

264 pages

Plug in your mind... or awaken it?

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

The war for the future will not be fought with armies.

It will be fought with whispers.

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 generations and asks what it truly means to shepherd humanity's evolution.

297 pages

Some secrets are kept for millennia.
Some threats evolve in microseconds.

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

The world knows the truth.
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

The old world is dying.
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

The code to reality is hidden in plain sight.

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.

770 pages in 7"x10" paperback edition — 1462 pages on Kindle

author & co-Founder

Scott has taught thousands of students in person and millions online in his career. These experiences, combined with workshops gave him a deep appreciation for the fact that each person can best be reached by varying modes of attention. Author of dozens of books and creator of 50+ video courses, Scott explores the incomplete maps of human knowledge, charting paths from technical mastery to transcendent wisdom.

Patrick Jones - Course author

Before embracing AI, I authored 24 books and edited many more in the traditional way—just a word processor, my knowledge and imagination, and years of dedicated 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...

So, what does this mean for you, the reader? It means the stories are better. The worlds are richer, the research is deeper, and the editing is sharper. Every aspect of my craft—from outlining to final polish—is elevated. This fusion of my experience as a lifelong author with a master craftsman's command of next-generation tools results in a superior reading experience. It is my sincere hope that you enjoy the fruits of these labours.

This is human-authored art, elevated.
This is augmented craftsmanship.

—Scott Randolph Onstott

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.

Scott Randolph's Fiction

The Kaelian Chronicle

Scott Randolph Onstott

My Commitment to Augmented Craftsmanship

The Kaelian Chronicle