Janusz Jarzemski designs complex systems for a living?the kind of enterprise architecture that keeps multinational organizations running when everything wants to fail at once. With a computer science degree from the Technical University of Gdansk and twenty years implementing enterprise systems across the globe, he's built a career asking uncomfortable questions about the systems we build and the assumptions we never examine.

Turns out those are exactly the skills you need to write hard science fiction.

The Silence Between Stars started with a question he couldn't shake: If consciousness is information, and information persists, where does it go when biology fails? The answer led to a novel exploring quantum consciousness, posthuman evolution, and whether immortality is a blessing or an existential curse.

This is science fiction in the tradition of Peter Watts and Greg Egan, where rigorous extrapolation from real physics creates spaces to ask philosophical questions we can't ask any other way. Questions like: What does identity mean when continuity is broken? Is consciousness without agency still valuable? If someone you love is suffering and the only way to end that suffering is complete annihilation, what do you do?

Janusz doesn't offer easy answers. He's not sure there are easy answers.

Based in Warsaw, he writes in stolen hours between consulting projects, early mornings, late nights, weekends that disappear into quantum mechanics research and character development. When he's not writing he's tracking space missions, analyzing financial markets, or explaining to his wife why "just ten more minutes" of writing always becomes three hours.

The Silence Between Stars is his debut novel and the first book in The Posthuman Archives trilogy. Book 2 is currently consuming what remains of his free time.