The Inspiration Tree
Discovery

First Contact

A human silhouette dissolves into a brilliant beam of light traveling from Earth across deep space toward a distant world.
Fiction

And Then There Was Light

September 7, 2026 By

Humanity sends a digitized consciousness 124 light-years across the cosmos, carrying Earth’s knowlege and a desperate plea for salvation. But what David Harden finds at journey’s end transforms the meaning of his mission.

An alien visitor warns the President about artificial intelligence on the White House lawn as an alien spacecraft hovers overhead.
Fiction

A Friendly Caution

August 21, 2026 By

Aliens arrive with a polite warning: artificial intelligence will slowly erode humanity’s ability to think and decide independently. A university counselor dismisses their concern, until she begins noticing something unsettling in her students and herself.