The Three Reflectors of Consensual Reality

While the starship Symbiosis is on its twenty-year voyage to Alpha Centauri, crew members Lupita Esperanza (human) and Connoisseur (AI) use their shipboard time to discover the origins of consciousness--both human and machine.

First Contact: as the Symbiosis arrives at Rigil Kentaurus, the human/AI crew must find a way to decipher how the consciousness of the alien Myriads works, or perish

All this in sight of their holy grail: a Mars-sized moon in the main star habitable zone . . .

—The most ambitious science fiction novel about consciousness ever written;

(Part 1 of the Consensual Reality trilogy.)