Character-led
Relationships are the engine. Tension lives in proximity, trust is earned slowly, and the crew forms by accumulation rather than declaration.
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A ship that won’t quit.
A captain outrunning her past.
A crew forming in the quiet.
Vox Humana is character-led science fiction: drift, survival, dry humor, and the slow, uncomfortable work of letting people exist in your orbit.
- Vibe
- Slow-burn tension, dry humor, quiet pressure
- Focus
- Character first, world as pressure
- Format
- Twice-monthly core chapters + interstitial releases
What this is
Vox Humana is a story about what happens after the noise stops— when survival becomes routine, and connection becomes the harder work.
Fringe survival
Broken infrastructure, quiet debts, small jobs, and a ship kept alive through habit, maintenance, and refusal to quit.
Serialized by design
Twice-monthly core chapters. Optional interstitial releases land between drops— additive, not a replacement for story progress.
Before you begin
Vox Humana starts quiet on purpose. This isn’t an excerpt from Chapter One—just a short tone note so you know what kind of story you’re stepping into: pressure in the small moments, meaning in the pauses, and momentum that builds by accumulation.
The ship doesn’t rush.
It keeps moving because it has to.
Out here, survival isn’t spectacle.
It’s maintenance. Habit. The choice to keep systems online when no one’s watching.
Drift isn’t failure.
It’s what happens when you keep going without applause.
Read it like that.
Slow. Deliberate. Layer by layer.
How it releases
Short drops, deliberate momentum—each chapter adds weight instead of resetting the board.
Cadence
Every 14 days for core chapters, with optional interstitial releases between drops.
What you get
Character-first sci-fi: drift, survival, dry humor, and a crew forming one small shift at a time.
Start point
Begin at Book One. No prior reading required. Clean chapter navigation on launch.
Book One release calendar
Core chapters drop every two weeks. Between drops, you’ll get optional interstitial releases (artifacts, cast notes, short extras) that deepen the crew without replacing story progress.
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Get launch updates
One email when we go live, then only when new chapters drop.