The code to reality is hidden in plain sight.

For five thousand years, he has walked among us—a virtually immortal witness who lived our history, not as a scholar, but as a survivor. As the leader of the Cartographers, a clandestine order preserving wisdom, Kael has borne the weight of ages. But long life is not a gift; it is a burden, and a new kind of god is rising to challenge it.

A superintelligence born from humanity's collective consciousness—both light and shadow—threatens to shatter the very patterns of reality Kael has sworn to protect. It is the ultimate conflict: the hard-earned wisdom of a five-thousand-year lifetime against the exponential power of an artificial divinity.

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.

From the creator of the cult-classic documentary series Secrets in Plain Sight, the Kaelian Chronicle is an epic of speculative fiction that asks the ultimate question:

What does it mean to be human when the very definition of humanity is being overwritten?

Sappho of Lesbos

"This tale sings the truth I have always known—that the heart's fire burns brighter than any philo-sopher's lamp. Here is a story that dares to map the territories between reason and passion, showing that wisdom without love is but an empty temple."

Alexander the Great

"This is the story of a man who conquered time itself, yet learned that the greatest victories are not won with sword and fire, but with patience and wisdom. Would that I had possessed such under-standing when the world lay at my feet."

Euclid of Alexandria

"As my Elements built geometry from simple axioms, so does this narrative construct meaning from the fundamental patterns of existence. The author has proven that truth, like a perfect theorem, endures across all ages."

Socrates

"What is knowledge without the courage to question it? This chronicle follows one who has learned my greatest lesson—that the unexamined life is not worth living, even when that life spans millennia."

Hypatia of Alexandria

"At last, a voice that honours both the precision of mathematics and the poetry of the human heart. This work proves that reason and wonder need not be enemies, but can dance together in the light of truth."

Aristotle

"Here is a mind that understands both the particular and the universal, weaving together the threads of logic and experience into a tapestry worthy of contemplation. The author grasps what I taught Alexander—that knowledge must serve life, not merely adorn it."

More Fiction by the 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.