The Bootstrap
Paradox

David Moss writes science fiction about the moment knowledge stops being a comfort.

His work keeps circling the same questions from different directions. What does belief do when the evidence finally arrives. What is love actually willing to pay. Who remembers the people history quietly erases. Whether a mind assembled out of code can come to want something for itself. His characters tend to be handed a truth they never asked for, and then made to decide what it obligates them to do.

The City Beyond Forever is a free, noncommercial Star Trek fan novel inspired by The City on the Edge of Forever, and it refuses the easy inversion. Rather than simply undoing the original episode's tragedy, it asks what follows if Edith Keeler lives, the Federation holds, and James T. Kirk pays for it by disappearing from history. What remains is a story about alternate timelines, memory, identity, moral responsibility, and the lives quietly canceled whenever history is put back the way it was.

The Bootstrap Paradox, his debut original novel, arrives in the fourth quarter of 2026. A trauma surgeon, a Jesuit priest, and an evolving artificial intelligence travel two thousand light years from Earth to receive the ancient light still carrying the crucifixion and the resurrection, and to watch both unfold in real time. What begins as a scientific mission becomes a confrontation with faith, history, and sacrifice, and with the possibility that some truths cannot merely be observed. They must be entered.

The novel was built to live in more than one form. Alongside it sit a 22-song musical, a television pilot, a series bible, a pitch presentation, and an interactive narrative experience, which reflects a long interest in stories that change shape depending on how you meet them.

He came to fiction from sound. More than four decades in broadcasting and media, on air and behind it, trained an ear for dialogue that has to be spoken aloud, scenes that have to hold an audience in real time, and the emotional architecture that keeps people listening. That career has included work as an on-air personality, producer, entrepreneur, consultant, and media executive, and continues as founder and Chief Executive Officer of Thasis Radio Network, an independent streaming radio network programmed by veteran broadcasters.

Across original and transformative fiction alike, the conviction underneath the work is the same. The most powerful science fiction is not finally about technology. It is about what human beings choose when knowledge offers no simple answer and every available future carries a cost.

David lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he writes, produces, composes, and develops original stories for publishing, audio, television, and other media.

David Moss came to fiction through sound.

More than four decades in technology, broadcasting, and media shaped his ear for dialogue, pacing, and stories that must hold an audience in real time. He is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Thasis Radio Network, and he lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

His debut original novel, The Bootstrap Paradox, arrives in the fourth quarter of 2026, developed alongside a 22-song musical, television development materials, and an interactive narrative experience. His complete, noncommercial Star Trek fan novel, The City Beyond Forever, is free to read now.

His fiction keeps returning to the same territory: faith tested by evidence, what love is willing to pay, minds learning to want, and the lives history erases.