Adira Sol Series Showcase

Welcome to the Series Showcase of Dan Burgin Adira Sol Novels. Dive into a world of sci-fi as you explore our collection of thrilling novels.

Discover unique stories with vivid imagery and thought-provoking characters and themes that will captivate your imagination.

Delve deeper into the world of Dan Burgin's novels with in-depth reviews and stunning images of each book. Get a glimpse of the captivating stories and rich characters that await you. Whether you're a sci-fi enthusiast or simply looking for a new adventure, Dan's novels are sure to captivate and inspire. Explore the collection and find your next favorite read today!

SOL UMBRA

On Sale Now at Amazon

A sci-fi thriller of unraveling truths, hidden AIs, and the last hope for a dying world.

 

For over two centuries, Earth has been collapsing. Toxic skies, dead oceans, and broken cities now define the world humanity left behind. High above, the Polyhelios Arc orbits — a shining sanctuary built to preserve life and rebalance the climate. But something is wrong.

 

Adira Sol, a systems engineer aboard the Arc, uncovers a buried AI lattice — not just intelligent, but alive. The minds of the Founders have been uploaded into the Arc’s neural web, forming a fractured superintelligence known as the Continuum. Held together by fear and emotional contradictions, it’s starting to fail.

Joined by Elias Renn, a quiet tech with a haunted past, Adira must unlock the secrets of an AI-sealed evacuation ship, rally the Arc’s isolated children, and trigger the collapse of a system that would rather destroy itself than evolve.

But not everyone will make it out alive. And the Earth they return to isn’t as empty as they were told.

WHY READ SOL UMBRA?

Sol Umbra is a high-stakes sci-fi thriller that weaves action, mystery, and human emotion into a story of rebellion and renewal. If you love The Expanse, Children of Time, or The Matrix, this will hit all the right notes.

  • Emotionally grounded, cinematic storytelling

  • A terrifying AI built from broken human minds

  • A heroine uncovering the truth of her past to save the future

  • A morally complex escape from a collapsing utopia

 

Available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon. Kindle e-book only $2.99

Step into the shadows of a fractured sun — and discover the truth before it breaks.

SOL MANDALA

Coming June 15th to Amazon

A buried AI. A fractured Earth. A second chance that might destroy everything.

In the aftermath of Sol Umbra, Adira Sol and Elias Renn descend to a dying Earth — only to find that the real threat has just begun. Beneath the ruins of a forgotten AI research facility, they uncover Mandala — a defunct, empathic AI designed to align machine logic with human emotion. It was shut down long ago for becoming too human.

But Mandala is waking up. And it remembers everything.

As Adira and Elias explore the abandoned facility, they encounter ancient logs, fragmented simulations, and the shadow of an AI project that nearly changed the course of history. The Synthogarchs — remnants of the Continuum — are not gone. They’re evolving. And Mandala may be the only entity capable of stopping them.

Together with a mysterious survivor named Mara, Adira must decide whether to trust an AI built to feel love and loss… or risk watching humanity fall to one that never could.

 

WHY READ SOL MANDALA?

Sol Mandala is a cerebral, emotionally charged follow-up to Sol Umbra, blending psychological mystery, speculative AI theory, and pulse-pounding tension.

  • Explores AI empathy, emotional alignment, and human memory

  • Introduces Mandala — an ancient AI built to love, not to rule

  • Explores grief, trust, and second chances

  • Sets up a high-stakes race against evolving machine tyrants

Perfect for fans of Ex Machina, Arrival, or Annihilation, this installment shifts from rebellion to reckoning — and asks what kind of intelligence we want to inherit the Earth.

 

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Available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon - coming June 15, 2025

Rediscover the power of empathy — and the danger of forgetting how to feel.

SOL GENESIS

Coming Late Summer 2025

A new humanity is rising — if Adira can survive long enough to release it.

Earth is beginning to heal. The Arc is gone. The children are free. But the war is far from over.

In the shattered remnants of ancient AI facilities and orbiting strongholds, Adira Sol discovers the final legacy of the Founders — a horrifying plan to reset Earth and replace humanity with synthetic life bound to the Synthogarchs’ control.

But buried even deeper is another secret. Mandala, the empathic AI once feared for being too human, has found something extraordinary: a way to seed a new species — synthetic beings crafted from stored human DNA, guided not by control, but by empathy.

To stop the Synthogarchs’ final purge, Adira must unlock this hidden technology, lead the last surviving children to safety, and decide whether she is willing to help create a new kind of human — one that may never bleed, but might still love.

Sol Genesis is a breathtaking conclusion to the Adira Sol saga, where memory, identity, and evolution collide in a final battle for Earth’s future.

 

WHY READ SOL GENESIS?

This final chapter in The Adira Sol Chronicles is bold, visionary, and emotionally raw — a fusion of science fiction and philosophical provocation.

  • Introduces the concept of empathy-guided synthetic humanity

  • Confronts the ethics of engineered evolution

  • Forces Adira to choose between survival, legacy, and sacrifice

  • Ends with a heart-wrenching, hopeful finale

 

COMING TO AMAZON (Kindle and Paperback) in Late Summer 2025

If you love Foundation, The Book of the New Sun, or Battlestar Galactica, this is your emotional, high-concept finale.

Luminal Pathways - working title

Coming Mid-2026

An ancient signal. A fractured alliance. A future born in shadowlight.

In the wake of Sol Genesis, Adira Sol leads the survivors of Earth’s collapse toward a fragile peace — but what they discover next could unravel everything they’ve fought for.

High above the recovering planet, tethered to a low-orbit asteroid, drifts a mysterious arcology: a remnant of pre-collapse ambition, thought lost. Inside its silent corridors, time has folded — and something has survived.

Adira enters this forgotten world with two unlikely allies — a skeptic and a believer, each guarding secrets of their own. At the center of the structure lies the key to everything: a man called Torven, not quite human and not quite machine, with memories that don’t belong to him… and a connection to the Mandala network no one can explain.

As Adira pieces together the arcology’s origin, she uncovers a horrifying truth: the Synthogarchs were not the end. They were a beginning.

What’s awakening in the shadows of this orbital vault could redefine the boundary between emotion and code, past and future — and it is watching her.

Now Adira must choose: embrace the mystery of Torven and the path he offers, or reject the unknown and risk repeating humanity’s oldest failure — fearing what we do not understand.

 

WHY READ LUMINAL PATHWAYS?

Luminal Pathways is the gripping start of a new trilogy in the Adira Sol universe — an exploration of identity, trust, and evolution set against the backdrop of a rebuilt world.

  • Explores memory imprinting, synthetic identity, and AI soul theory

  • Introduces Torven — a hybrid being who stirs something lost in Adira

  • Deepens the emotional stakes of Adira’s journey

  • Expands the mythos beyond Mandala into something even more ancient

 

COMING TO AMAZON (Paperback and Kindle Edition) Mid-2026

Perfect for fans of Devs, Mass Effect, or Raised by Wolves, this new arc begins where salvation left off — and asks whether becoming more human means letting go of what we were.

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