Allan Walker is an ordinary inhabitant of a future world where the past can be experienced through remarkably lifelike holograms. But on one such journey, something happens that isn't supposed to happen.
What follows begins playfully, with an unlikely companion and increasingly curious departures from the possible. But the journey eventually opens onto a larger question: what if the world we accept as reality is only one version of what a world—and humanity—might have become?
Blending evolutionary imagination, humor, fantasy, and philosophical speculation, this story follows the main character beyond the boundaries of ordinary reality and toward another possibility for human existence.
Sometimes the impossible is not an escape from reality. Sometimes it asks us to reconsider what reality could be.
Michael A. Susko is an author whose work ranges across fiction, evolutionary thought, history, archaeology, cosmology, and symbolic anthropology. With degrees in philosophy and psychology, he has long been drawn to the meeting place between scientific inquiry and the imaginative life. His fiction often explores alternative worlds and realities, using fantasy, humor, and speculative ideas to reconsider what it means to be human. In Planet Segundo, evolutionary imagery and philosophical speculation come together in a playful fable about possibility, transformation, and second chances.