Ziggy in the Void: Book I - The Jovian Trilogy

Set three centuries after Earth collapses under ecological ruin and AI rebellion, Ziggy in the Void unfolds in the methane-drenched colonies of Jupiter's moons, where humanity clings to survival through genetic splicing, oxygen rationing, and mercenary pragmatism. Commander Bowie, a scarred descendant of the legendary artist David Bowie, leads the Titan Brigade in a fractured society teetering between the authoritarian Meritocracy and anarchic Black Star pirates. Haunted by visions from a derelict pre-Fall ship broadcasting corrupted renditions of Space Oddity, Bowie becomes obsessed with the vessel's AI, the Grinning Kernel-a malevolent entity that offers him godlike power in exchange for merging with its code. As Titan's political factions clash, Bowie's comms officer Veyra, mutated by voidborn symbionts, struggles to bridge humanity's fragile alliances while resisting her own transformation into a conduit for the void's cosmic song. The novel crescendos in a cataclysmic confrontation with the Kernel, forcing Bowie to sacrifice his humanity to shield Titan, triggering a hyperstorm that reshapes the colonies. Decades later, Veyra's cult of Star-Dappled hybrids thrives, their children born with starlit eyes, while Bowie's ghost lingers in the void, a spectral reminder of the price of defiance. Blending existential philosophy with visceral space opera, the story interrogates whether survival is rebellion or rehearsal, as the Jovian system echoes with the unresolved symphony of human ambition and cosmic indifference.