Alidala
Alidala pits men, aliens, and gods against each other in a battle beyond the confines of time and space.
Stay
with me.
The Forerunner, once a powerful figure, is now a dying fugitive, a living corpse drifting in deep space, desperate to reunite with his wife and escape mankind's judgment. But humanity's finest, aided by a collective of formidable AIs, is hot on his trail. The pursuers are also racing through the stars to confront a new and ominous threat — an alien force that can manipulate the very fabric of reality.
These faceless, menacing figures could reshape the universe and trigger extinction-level events. But can you stop those who command the pillars of time and space? Those who reveal nothing of their soul?
For fans of the Vice Versa universe. Alidala synthesizes every thread the series introduced — first contact, AI consciousness, East African geopolitics, love across timelines — into a single, universe-scale confrontation.
A tightly constructed novella and the third and final entry in the Vice Versa series. Every character introduced across The Forerunner and C1 converges here, on a foreign world, for a conclusion that earns every page that came before it. Precise in length, universe in scope.
The Vice Versa series spans The Forerunner, C1, and Alidala. Three interconnected novellas building a shared universe of East African geopolitics, extraterrestrial pathfinders, sentient AIs, and gods who answer to no one.
Dune
meets
His Dark Materials
in East Africa.
Herbert's desert world, political mythology, and civilizational war scaled to the breadth of a universe. Pullman's gods who are neither fully good nor fully knowable, operating through humans who cannot see the full picture. Both rebuilt from an African lens, with the emotional stakes of a love story that began on a crashing spacecraft and ends on the sands of Hemos.
Gods
The one of 1001 names does not explain himself. He creates conditions, asks questions, and watches. The divine here is neither benevolent nor cruel. It is simply operating on a timeline the other characters cannot read.
Love & Grief
Alidala is the name of the Forerunner's partner. The book named after her is ultimately about what it costs to love someone across universes — and what the absence of that person does to the person left behind.
Exodus & Biblical Journey
The final act is structured like an exodus. A small group, a hostile world, an impossible destination, and a countdown no one can stop. The biblical undertones are not decoration — they are the architecture.
Sacrifice
Jeremiah Carter. C4. Alidala herself. The series has always asked who you are willing to become for the people you love. Alidala answers the question definitively, and the cost is real.
The journey
begins here.
Alidala is the conclusion. If you arrived here first, the universe is waiting. Three interconnected novellas. One shared world. A story that earns everything it costs.