As development continues on The Computational Universe: Arrival, and as so many ideas once confined to science fiction become reality through AI—seriously, AI has been evolving at an astonishing pace in 2026—I’ve decided to revise the timeline of The Computational Universe.
The revised main series will consist of twelve full-length novels, and I’ve set myself a goal: to finish writing all twelve within the next ten years.
The first story will be The Computational Universe: Arrival. Then comes The Computational Universe: Expedition, a seven-book saga reworked from the original eight-book Computational Universe series to reflect the latest developments in AI. After that will come The Computational Universe: Crisis, a trilogy that will take the entire series to its ultimate peak. And finally, The Computational Universe: Wandering.
Twelve books in total. Together, they will form the core of The Computational Universe. Whether there will be any additional books depends on whether I still have new ideas after completing these twelve.
During the first five years of creating The Computational Universe, I hadn’t fully committed myself to this undertaking. I was frequently distracted by other pursuits. There was another problem, too: when I first wrote the outline for The Computational Universe, ChatGPT didn’t even exist. The new generation of AI had yet to be developed. All I could do was imagine what it might look like.
And now, those imaginings have turned into magical realism.
This is what happens when you take too long to write near-future science fiction. Your science fiction turns into alternate-history science fiction, because the future has already arrived.
Today, I’ve come to realize just how wrong my predictions about the development of AI and AGI were. And those miscalculations have become a problem I can no longer ignore in my work.
Of course, there are plenty of other things I want to change. I want the stories to be less preachy, more tightly structured, richer in substance, and denser with interesting ideas. I also want to cut the parts that I no longer find compelling.
So, yes, The Computational Universe: Expedition is getting rewritten. Again.
But this time, once the rewrite is complete, I’ll immediately translate it into English and release it alongside the novel version of The Computational Universe: Arrival.
I’m not waiting anymore.
If I wait any longer, the future will become reality all over again.
This is the predicament of the modern science fiction writer. The future has become almost impossible to predict, and the near future itself has become utterly science-fictional.
The biggest difference between who I am today and who I was five years ago is that I’ve now devoted myself entirely to developing The Computational Universe. I’ve also begun producing the first work in the series officially intended for an audience of readers and players.
I’ve poured everything I’ve learned throughout my life—and my soul—into The Computational Universe: Arrival. It’s a story filled with dramatic tension, and I’m genuinely satisfied with its narrative.
I’ve loved writing for twenty years, and I think I’ll continue loving it until I retire.
Life passes quickly. Decades disappear in the blink of an eye. But I’m certainly not the same person I was five years ago.
I’ve developed a new understanding of the kind of work I want to create. And this time, I know I’m ready to face my readers.
Even though the publishing industry is in decline, I still believe there’s a place in this world for good stories.
Writing near-future science fiction is, in a sense, destined to fail. We simply cannot predict the precise path of technological development.
This isn’t a game of Civilization, where you can just click your way through a technology tree.
We don’t even know whether we’re currently following the main branch of that tree.
So the only thing I can do is write faster.
I can’t possibly write at the pace of authors who produce serialized web fiction, especially since my writing process is entirely manual. But I have to spend several hours writing every single day, without exception. Otherwise, there’s simply no way I’ll finish the core Computational Universe series within ten years.
Someone once asked me why I write science fiction.
I told them that, for me, there doesn’t seem to be much else I could write about.
I used to be a programmer. Technology isn’t something I’ve merely observed from the outside. It’s something I’ve personally participated in creating.
And I love building worlds.
Unlike Tolkien, who believed that creating imaginary worlds was a way of imitating God’s creation and thereby glorifying God, I don’t approach world-building from a religious perspective.
I simply believe that creating worlds is the most joyful part of writing.
Today, I’ve become a multidisciplinary creator, and I’ve fulfilled my ambition of becoming a polymath.
But writing remains my primary pursuit.
I’m confident enough in my writing to believe that I can certainly write better than any AI currently available.
That’s why I’m not worried that advances in AI will somehow prevent me from continuing to write.
Quite the opposite.
I talk to AI. I exchange ideas with it. I let it inspire me and spark my imagination.
But when it comes to actually putting words on the page, I still do everything by hand.
So, stay tuned for The Computational Universe.
A new chapter is beginning for this science fiction universe.
Old stories are being reorganized. New stories are on their way.
It will be a science fiction experience unlike any other.
And it will be something truly special.
