On a ride-share service in Spain, I watched through my window as the mountains transformed from dry to lush. “That’s how you know you’ve moved out of Murcia and into Valencia,” the driver told me. I had failed to convince him I didn’t speak Spanish. I grunted along with the conversation and watched the landscape change, and for four hours witnessed desert become wetlands, high hills become flat, flat become dotted with wind turbines.

I imagined what it would be like to see giants walking among those turbines, lifting one up like we would lift up a turnip, not knowing why it can suddenly see these turbines and how quite to interact with one. Then I thought about why that giant was suddenly visible, because I already knew the giant was always there. I knew then that this world - my world - was changing,

This trip, and this daydream, is what eventually led to A Light in the Void, and the story is much bigger than I had originally imagined. A good part of the story will revolve around a road trip, but the focus will be on Bryce, and his journey to discover the limits of the human mind: what the mind can perceive, what it can understand, and how the mind decides, and only the mind, what is in the world he sees. On this journey Bryce will encounter some of the stranger parts of the universe.

Through all this, through Bryce’s eyes, I get to write the book I’ve always wanted to read. I hope you like it.