Dark Passage
The Standing Wave · Book OneAt a dead star, two enemies make a ceasefire. What holds it is not trust, and not fear — and whether it lasts is the whole of the book. With a companion album, The Black Star Passes.
View book & album →Science fiction at the scale of deep time — from a private, contemplative author.
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Seren V. Wald writes science fiction at the scale of deep time — the author of The Standing Wave trilogy and its companion Vel, and of the Silicon Serpents cycle. Wald's subject is coherence: what holds — across centuries, across species, across the gap between one mind and another — when everything is free to come apart.
The prose is spare, giving nothing away until the single moment it must give everything at once. Wald is a private, contemplative author — heard and read, but not seen, content to let the work do the speaking.
What Holds is an upcoming audio show accompanying the series, beginning with Dark Passage.
A trilogy and its companion — one continuous question across deep time.
At a dead star, two enemies make a ceasefire. What holds it is not trust, and not fear — and whether it lasts is the whole of the book. With a companion album, The Black Star Passes.
View book & album →
The gap, and what crosses it — and what is lost in the lag.
What coherence costs, when everything is free to come apart.
The ground before thought — the one answer that can only be received.