Nine Moons Collection
By Alec Borman
Book 1 – The Resonance Of Tuesday: A High-Fidelity Satire of a Low-Bitrate Universe
Systems Theory meets Douglas Adams in this high-fidelity sci-fi satire about a universe running on faulty data—and the structural engineer trying to debug it.
Arthur Penwright suffers from Semantic Tinnitus: he can physically hear the friction of a lie. Living in a world defined by “good enough” estimates and low-bitrate denial, the constant static of deceit is driving him slowly, quietly mad. He really just wants a quiet cup of tea.
To fix his noisy, lying kettle, Arthur builds a machine tapping into the gravitational tension of the Nine Moons. But instead of silence, he accidentally summons the Foreman—a six-inch, holographic, highly neurotic interface who views reality as a construction site four billion years behind schedule.
Together, they discover the laws of physics are merely administrative guidelines. From a village feuding over spite-fueled vegetables to a central bank trying to balance the deficit by repossessing a moon, reality is a mess of spaghetti code and legacy trauma. But when a slick tech mogul attempts to “optimize” existence by deleting the uncompressed, messy truth of humanity, Arthur must decide if a perfectly silent, frictionless universe is really worth the cost of his home.
The Resonance of Tuesday is a hilarious, heart-breaking look at why we lie to ourselves, and what happens when the universe forces a hard reset.
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Book 2 – The Syntax of Wednesday: A Comic Novel of Friction and Repair
Arthur Penwright is a structural engineer who can hear when the universe is lying.
Three months after he saved his village by debugging reality itself, Oakhaven has become the Hub—a chaotic crossroads where medieval knights argue recycling protocols with cyberpunk couriers, and a sentient toaster has developed a crisis of faith. The peace is fragile, held together by Arthur’s stubborn refusal to let anyone optimize the mess out of existence.
Then the Archivist arrives.
She is a Golem of optimization—a perfectly logical, utterly reasonable entity who believes that friction, grief, and memory are bugs to be patched. She offers the village a Golden Master: sixty minutes of perfect Wednesday, where nothing breaks, nothing hurts, and nothing is truly alive. When Arthur refuses, she mutes his voice, paywalls the sunset, and gives the village forty-eight hours to comply.
Armed with a rusted wrench, a chalkboard, and a crew of misfits—an algorithm afraid of his own pop-up ads, a postmistress with a thirty-year grudge, and a high-frequency trader who has never touched anything real—Arthur must build an impossible machine from scrap and memory, cross a wasteland of deleted dreams, and confront the Archivist at the source code of reality itself.
Because you cannot fix the universe by deleting the mess. You can only survive it by learning to curate the glitch.
The Syntax of Wednesday is the second book in the Nine Moons Collection—a comic speculative fiction series where Systems Theory meets Douglas Adams, and the wobbly table is the ultimate weapon.
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