My Work Compare to Other Philosophical Science-Fiction Authors.

While science-fiction has long served as a canvas for examining humanity, each major author approaches this exploration differently. Agron Shehu’s Humans in SpaceTime… What a Shock and PostHumans continue this tradition while diverging in important, original ways.

Isaac Asimov — Rational Systems vs. Human Behavior

Asimov’s Focus:

• The logic of robots

• Psychohistory (statistical prediction)

• Civilization as a mathematical system

Asimov dissects social behavior through external structures: institutions, predictive models, robotic laws.

My work divergence: Instead of examining systems, Shehu examines the internal conflict within the human psyche — the contest between mind and emotion — across evolutionary time. Where Asimov asks “What rules should govern society?”, Shehu asks “Which internal force has governed the human being throughout history — and why?”

Arthur C. Clarke — Transcendence Through Technology

Clarke’s Focus:

• Cosmic wonder

• Evolution through alien intervention

• Mystical technological uplift (e.g., Childhood’s End, 2001)

Clarke views humanity’s evolution as triggered by external, often incomprehensible cosmic forces.

My work divergence: I keep evolution internal, grounded in human psychological dynamics: intellect, sentiment, tribal emotion, and energy availability. Instead of monoliths transforming us, Shehu argues we transform as emotional dominance yields to cognitive maturity.

Stanislaw Lem — The Failure of Communication

Lem’s Focus:

• The impossibility of understanding the aliens

• Satirical deconstruction of science’s limits

• Cognitive humility (Solaris, His Master’s Voice)

Lem highlights epistemological barriers: we can’t know the unknowable.

My work divergence: In my work the aliens (Protonians, mindwaves) are not barriers — they are mirrors. They reveal how humans fail to understand themselves. Instead of cognitive humility, I emphasize cognitive accountability: the responsibility to evolve emotionally and rationally.

Philip K. Dick — Reality vs. Perception

Dick’s Focus:

• Paranoia

• Identity instability

• Subjective realities

Dick fractures consciousness to reveal its fragility.

My Divergence: I stabilize consciousness and fractures feeling. The divide between Higgs (mind) and Hitt (emotion) dramatizes how civilization oscillates between rational progress and emotional regression — not through hallucination, but through history.

Carl Sagan — Cosmic Context and Awe

Sagan’s Focus:

• Perspective: Earth as a pale blue dot

• Scientific humility

• Cosmic connection

Sagan inspires awe through scale and empathy.

My Divergence: I inspire awe through psychological archaeology — traveling backward in time, dissecting emotional epochs (war, ritual, superstition) and comparing them to future intellectual civilizations (Proton’s mental entanglement, artificial suns).

Liu Cixin — Civilization Under Pressure

Liu’s Focus:

• Game theory

• Technological arms races

• Cold rationality vs. survival

Liu’s universe is hostile, and rationality is often ruthless.

My Divergence: I imagine universes where entangled minds evolve beyond physical constraints. Pressure does not simply create panic; it creates opportunities for emotional transcendence or collapse. Conflict is psychological, not merely strategic.

Frank Herbert — Ecology, Power, Religion

Herbert’s Focus:

• Myth as manipulation

• Ecology’s influence on culture (Dune)

• Prophetic psychology

Herbert analyzes how environments sculpt belief and control.

My Divergence: I analyze how energy sources sculpt cognition. Fire, horses, hydrocarbons, electricity, and fusion are not background technologies — they are psychological engines determining whether mind or emotion dominates in each epoch.

This is a unique civilizational lens.

What Makes My Voice Original

1. Psychological Bifurcation of Humanity

By splitting mind (Higgs) and emotion (Hitt - Hitler) into characters, I dramatize internal evolution externally — a technique closer to philosophical allegory than conventional sci-fi tropes.

2. Reverse-Time Historical Journey

The narrative moves backwards through history, forcing readers to re-interpret past events with future knowledge — a rare structural device.

3. Energy-Psychology Correlation

Most sci-fi treats energy sources as technology. I treat them as drivers of human emotional or rational dominance — an original anthropological thesis.

4. Extraterrestrials as Cognitive Benchmarks

Protonians are not conquerors or saviors. They are examples of what humans might become — or fail to become — based on internal psychological evolution.

5. Philosophical Tone Without Academic Sterility

I maintain:

• emotional tragedy,

• dramatic dialogue,

• character intimacy, while tackling abstract philosophical questions — something few authors balance well.

The Result

My work stands at a junction where:

• Asimov’s logic,

• Clarke’s cosmic scale,

• Lem’s philosophical inquiry,

• Herbert’s cultural insight,

are refracted inward — not outward.

Where others ask:

“What will technology make of us?”

I ask:

“What will we make of ourselves once emotion and mind reconcile — or collide?”

A Distinct Contribution to Philosophical Science-Fiction

I propose that:

• Human history is a psychological experiment shaped by energy access.

• Civilizational progress is the shifting dominance between intellect and emotion.

• The future depends on mastering internal energies — not only external ones.

This integration of:

• psychological allegory,

• evolutionary anthropology,

• cosmological context,

• energy theory,

forms a narrative perspective not commonly explored in the canon.