David Moss

David Moss writes science fiction about faith, sacrifice, artificial intelligence, and the lives history erases. He is the author of The City Beyond Forever, complete and free to read now, and The Bootstrap Paradox, arriving in the fourth quarter of 2026.

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The City
Beyond Forever

Edith Keeler lives. The Federation holds. And Kirk pays for it by vanishing from history.

One captain saved the future by staying in the past. Now his first officer must choose: bring him home and let another captain burn, or leave him there and face the future without him. A novel about alternate timelines, memory, identity, and the people quietly canceled whenever the past is put back the way it was.

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Cover art for The City Beyond Forever: Kirk and an older Kirk turned from one another inside the Guardian of Forever, Edith Keeler watching above them

The City Beyond Forever

A Star Trek fan novel · David Moss

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The Bootstrap Paradox, arriving Q4 2026

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The books

Two novels asking the same question
from opposite ends of history.

Fan novelComplete · Free

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The City Beyond Forever

A Star Trek fan novel · David Moss

The City Beyond Forever

Novel · Three parts · 51 chapters · Free

Inspired by The City on the Edge of Forever, and unwilling to take the easy way out of it. Rather than simply reversing the original episode's tragedy, the novel asks what follows if Edith Keeler lives, the Federation holds, and James T. Kirk pays for it by vanishing from the record. What remains is a story about alternate timelines, memory, identity, moral responsibility, and the lives quietly canceled whenever history is restored.

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Original novelFourth quarter 2026

Cover of The Bootstrap Paradox: an ancient temple at sunset seen through a gold observation reticle, three crosses on the hill behind it Q4 2026

The Bootstrap Paradox

Novel · 99,000 words · Literary science fiction

A trauma surgeon, a Jesuit priest, and an evolving artificial intelligence travel two thousand light years from Earth to meet the ancient light still carrying the crucifixion and the resurrection, and to watch both happen in real time. The mission is meant to be observation. It becomes something harder.

Some truths cannot merely be observed. They must be entered.

  • Novel
  • Audio musical
  • Television pilot
  • Series bible
  • Interactive experience

About

David Moss

David Moss

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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 an audio 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 writes science fiction about the moment knowledge stops being a comfort.

He is the author of The City Beyond Forever, a free, noncommercial Star Trek fan novel about the lives history erases when it is put back the way it was, and of The Bootstrap Paradox, an original literary science fiction novel arriving in the fourth quarter of 2026 and developed alongside an audio musical, a television pilot, a series bible, and an interactive narrative experience.

His fiction explores faith, sacrifice, artificial intelligence, memory, destiny, and the moral consequences of history. He came to it from sound, after more than four decades in broadcasting and media as an on-air personality, producer, entrepreneur, consultant, and media executive. He is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Thasis Radio Network, and he lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

HomeFort Lauderdale, Florida
BackgroundFour decades in broadcasting
AlsoFounder and CEO, Thasis Radio Network
The workTwo novels, one question

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Recurring themes

FaithBelief tested by evidence
SacrificeWhat love is willing to pay
Artificial intelligenceA mind learning to want
MemoryWho remembers the erased
DestinyLoops with no first cause
ConsequenceThe moral weight of history

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