Uneasy Realism / Corporate Cosmic Horror
Sun Machines
A senior consultant discovers that climate change is not human stupidity at scale — it’s alien terraforming, executed through the very institutions she helped build.
The Premise
Our political and institutional systems — worldwide — are structurally incapable of responding to crisis at planetary scale. The alien intervention didn't create this dysfunction. It cultivated it. The corruption isn't bribery or mind control — it's ensuring that the systems designed to respond stay exactly as broken as they already are.
The system's most elegant defence isn't suppression — it's scheduling.
Set in Zürich, Geneva, and the Swiss Alps. A novella told through the eyes of Lena Halter, a medieval historian turned regulatory consultant who discovers that the data she's modelling isn't a projection. It's telemetry.