J. Kepler Arden
Author of The Lantern Edge
Hard-science space opera where measurement has consequences, certainty carries costs, and human connection is the only force that persists when reality begins to edit itself.
The Lantern Edge Series
The Map That Blinked
Book 1
A star catalog begins rewriting itself. Navigator Maya Kepler must learn that some truths are dangerous to know.
Rogue Planet, Warm Heart
Book 2
A habitable rogue planet offers refuge—but its warmth is sustained by a mechanism that trades in memory and attachment.
Anatomy of an Echo
Book 3
Reality begins pruning unstable patterns. To stabilize the universe, someone must be erased from those who love them most.
The Name That Stayed
Book 4 — Series Finale
To retrieve the erased, the crew must remember gently—because forcing recognition risks restarting cosmic instability.
About the Author
J. Kepler Arden writes character-driven hard science fiction grounded in real physics and human ethics.
The Lantern Edge explores what happens when the universe treats observation as interaction—and when love becomes the most dangerous variable of all.