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Continue to Archive →Twenty-two original compositions in the tradition of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. Over two hours of music and narration. Each major character narrates their own arc. Written, composed, engineered, and produced by David Moss.
Alcubierre fold drives. Temporal observation arrays. Quantum decoherence. Bootstrap paradoxes. The science is plausible, the technology is grounded, and the consequences are real.
What happens when the mechanism of the miracle is visible? Does divinity survive the discovery? Faith and science share the same table — and neither gets to leave early.
A mother and daughter. A grandmother and granddaughter. How much would you sacrifice for your family — and for humanity? At its core, this is about what love costs when the answer is everything.
The Bootstrap Paradox begins with an observation mission that becomes a crisis of civilization. A deep-space crew catches ancient light from Jerusalem, 33 CE, and watches the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ revealed not as myth, but as an intervention carried out by unidentified humans using advanced technology.
That discovery does not answer the central question. It explodes it. The footage fractures governments, faith communities, families, and the crew itself. An atheist surgeon, a Jesuit priest, and a sentient AI are forced to navigate the fallout while institutions choose between truth and suppression, and the line between miracle and mechanism collapses in real time. If it happened, does the mechanism change the faith? Or does faith begin in what the event required of the people who made it possible?
What begins as observation becomes obligation. The deeper the crew pulls on the thread, the clearer it becomes that history was not only witnessed, but engineered — and that one of them will eventually have to cross into the past and become part of the pattern they uncovered. The engine of the series is not a mystery to solve, but a cost that keeps escalating: what truth demands, what love can survive, and what human beings become when they discover that divinity may be nothing more, and nothing less, than intervention, sacrifice, and care.
Each format is complete, standalone, and represents finished work. They are designed to launch in concert as a single prestige property, with each format reinforcing the others. We are seeking an agent or agency that can shepherd the full slate.
Complete, fully edited, and formatted. The original work from which every other format extends. Read the first fifty pages or the full manuscript.
An audio-musical adaptation in the tradition of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. Twenty-two original compositions, narrated and sung by the principal characters. A complete dramatic work that stands on its own and can release alongside the novel.
An immersive companion site that lets readers and viewers live inside the world of the novel — presented as the public-facing archive of a fictional research institution. Designed to bridge the gap between reader, viewer, and inhabitant of the universe.
A one-hour prestige drama. The pilot script is complete. The five-season series bible is complete, with character arcs, episode breakdowns, and full thematic architecture. Designed for streaming-tier production.
“The most humanely rendered AI in contemporary fiction.”
— Early reader
“One of the only books I’ve read that treats science and faith with equal respect throughout.”
— Early reader
“I haven’t stopped thinking about this book in three weeks. It broke something in me — and then rebuilt it.”
— Early reader
“The rare novel that treats faith with the same rigor it gives quantum mechanics — and doesn’t flinch from either.”
— Early reader
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“For All Mankind” meets “The Leftovers” — hard science fiction grounded in real physics and real theology.
David Moss brings four decades of experience in storytelling, broadcasting, music production, and audience-building to The Bootstrap Paradox. He is the founder of both Personata Studios and the Thasis Radio Network and has written, composed, engineered, and produced all twenty-two tracks of the audio-musical adaptation.
Finished core materials and companion assets are available for review.