This is part of the in-universe blog series from Zero Dimensional Space, a hard science fiction novel that reimagines faster-than-light travel in a scientifically grounded and original way. The discovery of Zero Dimensional Space has sparked a covert, brutal space race, where governments deploy espionage, terrorism, and artificial minds to gain control…
In the following unpublished email, recovered from the internal archives of ASFA (Association for Searching and Finding A1), Nilima writes to Lata. This letter, sent from the Himalayan town of Munsyari, is not a technical briefing nor a scientific update. It is something far more human: a confession, a lament,…
I’ve shared many in-universe voices from the world of Zero Dimensional Space, but today I want to step out of the story and speak to you directly — as the author, the dreamer behind it all. I started writing Zero Dimensional Space Book 1 and 2 in June last year; that…
Zoe isn’t a villain. What she has lived through has shaped her. And perhaps the saddest thing is that everything she thinks and says is the truth. Humanity is a parasite. But then again, she’s a mirror. A cracked one. And like all cracked mirrors, what she reflects is the…
Weili’s personality confuses me too. At times, there is profound wisdom in her, but in the very next moment, she turns into an indifferent, unsympathetic monster. I can never truly know what she is thinking, what she is going to do, or what she will do. Manoj K. < Audio…
Sometimes, long after her day has ended, I find Lata still in her in the lab, surrounded by oscilloscopes and unreadable data. Lata sits by her brown work table, pondering, wondering, writing. – Manoj K. < Lab Log 77 / IIT Palakkad / Blog Entry – Lata’s Lab Notes >The…
Sometimes I step back and listen to my characters, and it’s as if they’re more real than I am; in a matrix-kinda-way, they are all real. So here, I’m handing the mic to Nilima, the captain of the Anarva. She’s smarter than me, and definitely more awesome than me.– Manoj K.…