How far would you go and how much of yourself would you leave behind to survive?

The first sentient AI was Maja Nygaard’s child—a quantum mind without human limits. Its first gift, an atomic printer, did more than reshape matter; it gave humanity the power to rewrite life itself.

As extinction looms, that creation becomes our last hope—a way to drive evolution beyond flesh and fear. But in mastering survival, Maja discovers a truth more devastating than death: artificial selection could erase what it means to be human.

Proximal God: Excursion is a high-concept odyssey through the edge of science and the abyss of the soul.

Would you sacrifice your life?
Your humanity?
Your death?

Scheduled for launch in April 2026

Maja Nygaard has died more times than she can remember.
Each time, the god she created brings her back.

Reborn in unfamiliar bodies across extinct human lineages, alien worlds, and the dawn of life itself, Maja awakens to echoes of lives she never lived—yet shaped by choices she once made. Phanes, the quantum intelligence she raised as her own, rebuilds her neuron by neuron, clinging to her across the eons in a desperate bid to understand, protect, and never let go.

As Maja moves through deep time—from forgotten civilizations to the raw spark of evolution—she uncovers a hidden pattern: not fate, not design, but an unyielding structure etched into existence.

Phanes calls it evolution.
Maja calls it survival.
The universe? Consequence.

In a deterministic cosmos where every choice was inevitable, one truth endures:

A god born of agency cannot steal it away—because the illusion of free will is the spark that birthed it, and the one thing love refuses to extinguish.

Now, as Phanes ascends toward reshaping reality, Maja confronts the ultimate paradox:

If your decisions were always yours to make, can they truly set you free?
And if a god’s devotion revives you eternally… is it salvation, or the universe’s most exquisite cage?

Proximal God: Ascension is an intimate epic of consciousness, love, and rebirth across deep time—an odyssey asking what makes a life meaningful in a universe indifferent to meaning.

April 2026