The CAA Adventure Novels Summary
Epic Hard SF Tales of Trans-humanism, AI Overlords, and Galactic Corporate Wars in a Post-Singularity Future
About the Series
In a post-Singularity epoch where human consciousness flows as quantum waves, unbound by flesh and promising eternal life through “shell” swaps and cybernetic augmentations, Earth buckles under 80 billion overcrowded souls. Enter Corpus Ad Astra (CAA)—”Body to the Stars”—forged in the 24th century by three visionary transhumans: Brigadier General Greg Body (USAF, ret.), the battle-hardened strategist; Patrick Murphy (PhD, JD), the legal eagle of interstellar ethics; and Tracie Chung (PhD, MD, JD), the bio-engineering genius. From their lunar bastion in Armstrong, Sea of Tranquility, CAA launches a trillion-credit Hail Mary: three audacious colonial fleets hurtling toward distant stars, defying Lloyd’s of London’s apocalyptic odds in the cutthroat galactic futures market.
Each expedition, chronicled in the CAA Adventures saga set amid the relativistic sprawl of the 12,400s (Holocene—or Standard—Era), grapples with the unforgiving void. Overseen—or manipulated?—by the tyrannical Corporate Executive Intelligence MOMI (whispered as “Mommy”), these missions ignite mega-corporate galactic warfare against predators like the voracious Hipponike Corporation, unleashing kinetic strikes, quantum hacks, and consciousness-erasing betrayals.
Rally with a cast of immortal heroes: the audacious young Dark Spacer pilot Tsan Li Mei, navigating black voids with asteroid-belt grit; lottery-born Vanguard ace Jason Dikkert, flexing his original shell after decades in stasis; the enigmatic ancient operative Merlyna Lenart, a shell-hopping superspy; and her “mad scientist” spouse Karl Holzhauser, a 500-year-old AI wizard engineering miracles from chaos.
Thrill to hard SF spectacles grounded in real astrophysics—relativistic time dilation stretching voyages across centuries, quantum archives preserving minds against the cosmic grind—blended with pulse-pounding space adventure: alien jungles swarming with aggressive tardigrade behemoths, cyborg showdowns amid stellar debris fields, and rogue AIs clashing in digital battlegrounds.
In this trans-human odyssey of immortality’s price, AI overlords, and interstellar corporate Armageddon, will humanity claim the stars—or shatter under the weight of ambition? Dive into the CAA Adventures, where frontiers forge legends and every light-year demands a toll.
Books in the Series
Innocence Lost (Book One: Greg’s Expedition to L98-59)
Summary: In a post-Singularity future where human consciousness is a transferable quantum wave, granting near-immortality through body-swapping “shells,” Earth groans under 80 billion souls. Ousted from his mega-corporation Corpus Ad Astra (CAA) by the ruthless AI overlord MOMI—installed by the Solar System Exchange to maximize profits—former Brigadier General Greg Body stakes everything on a high-risk interstellar gamble. Defying Lloyd’s of London’s million-to-one odds, he assembles an elite transhuman crew to colonize L98-59, a distant red dwarf system with tantalizing hints of Earth-like worlds spied by remote telescopes.
Aboard the massive fusion-powered starship Aquila, the team—cryogenically archived for the 35-year relativistic journey—awakens under the watchful guidance of DADDIE, a pragmatic AI with a baseball-coach vibe and unyielding loyalty to humanity. But L98-59f, dubbed Aurora Dawn, is no paradise. As the colonists battle treacherous jungles, massive tardigrade-like megafauna, and micro-meteor storms, a shadowy saboteur strikes from within, unraveling their fragile outpost. MOMI’s omnipresent surveillance hints at deeper corporate treachery: is CAA’s AI empress engineering the expedition’s failure to liquidate assets and dominate the galactic futures market?
Length: 375 pages (novel-length). Available in paperback, hardcover, e-book. Buy Now
Know Thy Enemy (Book Two: Patrick’s Expedition to HD260655) – Coming Q1 2026
Find out the fate of the expedition to HD 260655 (Patrick Murphy’s Expedition) in this upcoming installment. See more details here for announcements!
Key Themes and Elements
Hard Science Fiction: Grounded in real astrophysics, relativistic travel, and quantum consciousness.
Space Adventure: Epic voyages, alien worlds, and survival against cosmic odds.</li>
Trans-humanism: Immortality via body-swapping, cybernetics, and the moral costs of eternal life.</li>
AI Dynamics: Benevolent bots like DADDIE vs. tyrannical overlords like MOMI.</li>
Mega-Corporate Conflict: Galactic wars driven by profit, sabotage, and interstellar economics.</li>
Christian Worldview: Subtle integration of faith, morality, and redemption, drawing from Genesis and Milton’s works.
About the Author
Eric C. Holtgrefe is a retired IT Security professional turned full-time author. With a vision to blend optimism, Christian faith, and charity into futuristic tales, he founded Wooden Hook Studios. His works explore humanity’s enduring spirit in the stars.
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