LEDGER · 2029-07-14 03:12 UTC · K 0.732 · Reykjanes · thermal event · casualties: 0
Neon Drift
A history of the future, drawn in dots and lines.
What this is · 2029 → 10,000
Does acceleration save us or drown us?
NEON DRIFT SAGA is a suspense science-fiction saga about the future, accelerated by AI but still plausible, running from 2029 to the year 10,000. It is being made in three forms.
A serialised novel
Told in seasons. Season 1 is being written now, one chapter at a time.
Episodes · One per chapterAn animated series
An animated episode for each chapter, in line art and light, with narration and an original score.
The Drift · Out nowScreensavers, themes and visions
The animations the saga grew from, made for your screens: a screensaver to download, phone themes soon, and short visions of the future.
The story · Season 1 · 2029 – 2058
The sea stops to think. That's when you listen.
In July 2029, the night before Meridian switches on its learning AI, WREN, a fire breaks out in a hall of its Icelandic campus that should have been empty. Ayla Torrin, the engineer who stops it, finds the logs erased and a single camera nobody thought to wipe. Over the next three years, the people who build and sell the world's thinking machines (a chief executive, two rival lab founders, a rocket magnate, a chipmaker and a courier in Saigon) each find something small that does not add up. Together, the pieces point somewhere none of them wants to look.
Latest chapter · 18 March 2033
10 · Geneva
Block zero. Nothing written here can be unwritten.
Four months after the Seven-Day Dark, central banker Ingrid Falk comes to Geneva for the signing of the Compact and the first block of the Ledger, a public record that nobody can edit afterwards. In her bag is a nine-page draft she has shown no one, and at the coffee urn she meets the engineer from Iceland.
Read chapter 10 →- 01
Slack Water
A dead hall is drawing six megawatts. Nobody booked it.
POV Ayla Torrin14 July 2029Meridian Reykjanes campus, Iceland6 min read▶ Episode - 02
First Words
Three hundred million people are waiting for a machine to speak.
POV Priya Ilangovan15 July 2029Meridian Reykjanes campus, Iceland6 min read▶ Episode - 03
Tide Tables
Some songs should only exist in memory.
POV Ayla Torrin15 July 2029Keflavík, Iceland6 min read▶ Episode
Premiering soon on our channelsTrailer
Season 1: Ignition — Trailer
Ostra, 2009. Forty minutes. Twenty years later, the first machine that truly thinks wakes up in Iceland. The official trailer for Season 1.
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The Drift · screensavers · phone themes · visions
Put the future on your screen
Reverie II, thirty minutes of drift: the animations the saga grew from, as a screensaver for Windows and Mac. Phone themes are on the way.
Visions · the world came before the story
Where it started
Now
Writing Chapter 11
10 of 40 chapters published. Every chapter is drafted, read by three test readers, revised and only then published here. Episode videos follow the chapters.