In deep space, dashboards promise certainty. But illusion, power, and betrayal fracture the crew. Maya asks: when numbers fall silent, will perception and beauty be enough to guide us?
Maya is a science-fiction novel about reality and its distortions. About the dashboards we build to measure the universe — and how those same instruments shape our perception of it.
A mining crew, a silent ship, and the illusions of certainty.
On the edge of deep space, Maya awakens into a mission where data smooths away anomalies, and survival means deciding which numbers to believe.
Beneath the dashboards lie questions of fracture and betrayal — and a chance to remember what perception asks of us when numbers fall silent.
The SciFi novel Maya explores the tension between technology, perception, and the human search for meaning. It combines the precision of hard science fiction with a philosophical depth that asks readers to reconsider how they see reality itself.
At its core, Maya belongs firmly to ScienceFiction, drawing readers who appreciate the rigor of exploration and survival in deep space. The novel engages with Philosophy, weaving ideas of illusion, perception, and consciousness into the fabric of its story.
Set against the backdrop of SpaceExploration, a mining crew journeys across distant worlds, confronting both planetary hazards and the illusions of certainty. The presence of ArtificialIntelligence—a captain that embodies corporate logic and unexpected insight—anchors the narrative in questions of trust and control.
Themes of Illusion and Alienation run throughout: dashboards smooth reality into numbers, while the crew becomes estranged not from aliens but from themselves. These distortions frame the larger questions of how we know what is real.
The novel turns toward Perception and Consciousness as its compass points, reflecting traditions from analytic idealism to non-dual philosophy: the world is not what it seems, but what attention reveals.
Human drama drives the conflict. Power—manifested through greed, ego, and survival instinct—shapes the crew’s decisions, pulling them into fracture and betrayal. Against this, the theme of Beauty emerges as quiet counterweight: not luxury, but a moral compass, guiding the possibility of remembering what lies beyond the dashboard.
Maya speaks both to lovers of speculative science and to readers drawn to reflection, offering a novel that measures not only distance through space, but the fragile depths of perception itself.
Excerpt:
“Perhaps that’s all it is. A way to see more. We’ve been trained to look at instruments and call that the world. We forget we can also look at the world.”
For a heartbeat, the light caught in a curve along the edge—something almost spiral—before it vanished.
“Are you afraid?” she asked, surprising herself by saying it aloud.
Andros didn’t look up. “Yes,” he said simply. “But fear is not the problem. It’s what we let it make us do.”
Keywords:
#ScienceFiction — Broadest anchor, putting Maya alongside Cixin Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lem. Hard-SF credibility balanced with lyrical resonance.
#Philosophy — Attracts readers of Le Guin and Lem; frames Maya as more than tech — a meditation on illusion, perception, and meaning.
#SpaceExploration — Mining crew and planetary landings give the classic SF appeal: survival in hostile worlds, discovery at the frontier.
#ArtificialIntelligence — Omen embodies both corporate logic and unexpected wisdom; AI as mirror of consciousness and blind spot of reliance.
#Illusion — Core theme from the Gita (“Maya” as appearance, not truth) and Hoffman’s headset theory — dashboards as icons, not reality.
#Alienation — The true horror: humans estranged from themselves, lost in dashboards and ego; echoes Kastrup’s “spiritual amnesia” and Liogier’s “age of shadows”.
#Perception — Seeing is both distortion and revelation; the shift from filtered dashboards to direct experience is Maya’s awakening.
#Consciousness — Ground of being in Kastrup and Ashtavakra; the Spiral of Remembering is about consciousness rediscovering itself.
#Power — The crew’s descent: greed, ego, control — Draven, Vera, Rian embody how survival instinct twists truth.
#Beauty — The counterforce: Andros’s compass, Liogier’s “light,” Thích Nhất Hạnh’s mindfulness — beauty not as luxury, but as moral orientation.
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The Dreamer’s Light Framework weaves philosophy, science, and contemplative wisdom into a unified vision of consciousness as the ground of reality. Drawing on Kastrup’s analytic idealism, Hoffman’s interface theory, Liogier’s transcendence, Thích Nhất Hạnh’s interbeing, and the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā’s radical non-dualism, it shows how awakening is not attainment but remembrance. From this recognition flows compassion, creativity, and the courage to live the dream consciously, shaping a more humane and beautiful world.