In 463 BC, the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras believed the universe was made up of an infinite number of seeds which, upon reaching Earth, gave rise to life. He introduced the idea of Panspermia to the world. Thousands of years later, his philosophy has become science: Directed Panspermia, the theory that microorganisms could be transported between habitable planets to seed life across the cosmos. Scientific theory and experiment affirm that it is our only possible means of extra-solar travel. No spaceships. No light-speed. No cryo-pods. Just bacteria and A.I. in a probe the size of a pencil. And an Ark at the edge of the universe with one purpose - stay alive.
Arks, Arks Proximan and Arks Helices follow this new species of human - Homo evolutis, the Arks - as they struggle to bring the light of consciousness to the stars. Across these storylines, we follow them from their first catastrophic attempts to pollinate and terraform exoplanets, to their strange and terrifying fate: hiding in the gravity of a corpse star at the end of time.
Because while each of their worlds is different, their stories are the same. Each Ark is being hunted by the same light that bore them. Each Ark is being hunted by Earth.
Born from real science, imagined and crafted by real people, Arks is groundbreaking, prophetic science fiction for a dangerous century.