ORION’S SEED — Michael Bianco

In Orion’s Seed, Michael Bianco constructs a carefully layered science-fiction thriller that sits at the intersection of archaeology, astrophysics, and deep-time speculation. When a geometrically anomalous artifact—known as the Luminaris—is recovered from beneath the Antarctic ice, its discovery challenges not only humanity’s understanding of its past, but the assumptions underlying its future.

Archaeologist Blake Edwards becomes the focal point of a widening investigation that spans continents and centuries, linking ancient star lore, lost civilisations, and modern surveillance states. What initially presents as a scientific anomaly gradually reveals itself to be something far more unsettling: evidence that human history may be part of a much older, extraterrestrial design.

Bianco’s narrative draws on real scientific principles—orbital mechanics, planetary formation, evolutionary biology—while exploring the philosophical implications of first contact not as an event, but as a legacy. The result is a novel that evokes the speculative ambition of Arthur C. Clarke and the investigative momentum of modern techno-thrillers, while maintaining a distinctly reflective core.

Listeners can also explore the ideas behind the novel in Michael Bianco’s interview on The Alternate Futures podcast, where he discusses the scientific foundations, historical inspirations, and long-term conceptual framework of Orion’s Seed:
https://open.substack.com/pub/alternatefutures/p/75-global-thrills-and-ancient-mysteries

Orion’s Seed is available worldwide via Amazon and major retailers:
https://books2read.com/u/3koBaN