The Array

Philbert powers up the Array for what feels like the millionth time — and something answers. The voice is impossible, the signal untraceable, and the engineer in him refuses to believe any of it.

Passant

Contact! The Array works, but the source of the voice is mysterious. When the voice reveals secrets known only to Philbert, the walls come down. What follows is the beginning of an unlikely trust — and the first glimpse of why contact was made at all.

The Old Bible Trail

Philbert heads into the Arizona backcountry to find his footing. Eight days on the Old Bible Trail — fish, injury, glow worms, a mysterious vision, chipmunks, and the stars — bring him back to himself and to something larger.

Life at the Quantum Level

Passant reveals the Fen — an advanced lifeform that evolved in the deep ocean, now quantum-scale and omnipresent. Philbert's assumptions about intelligence, reality, and free will are dismantled one by one. Then Da Baa puts the universe back in proportion.

The Old Wiring and The Graces

Passant traces the deep roots of human ethics — from savanna survival to the Graces — and reveals why the values that make civilisation possible are more fragile, and more urgent, than they appear.

Quantum Reality

Passant traces quantum reality from pool table geometry to the Many-Worlds interpretation — and explains why understanding it may be critical to human survival.