The Sublunary CycleAlistair Wainwright
The author

Alistair Wainwright

Portrait of the author writing as Alistair Wainwright, seated in a book-lined study beside a globe and a lunar diagram.
The author, in the study. Identity withheld by request.

Alistair Wainwright is the pen name of a private author of speculative fiction and hard science fiction. His work explores space as inheritance: the systems humanity carries beyond Earth, the resources it misnames, and the technologies it mistakes for freedom.

On the work

The Sublunary Cycle is a nine-book universe built as a trilogy of trilogies. The novels are the primary signal. Around them sits the Astral Tenzing archive — a layer of recovered field notes, diagrams, and artifacts that deepen the world without replacing the books.

The author writes under a pen name and keeps personal details private. Mystique here is built through voice, design, and the fiction itself — never through biography.

Field portraits

The author writes from the road as often as the study. These frames, drawn from the same recovered archive as the Astral Tenzing material, place him in the terrain that shapes the work — glen, dale, and desert.

Alistair Wainwright standing on a misty Highland path holding a folded map and field book, a canvas satchel on his shoulder.
Highland glen — map and notebook
Alistair Wainwright beside a drystone wall on open moorland under a storm sky, a spiral notebook in hand and a leather satchel at his side.
Northern moorland — drystone country
Alistair Wainwright in sepia tones on a rocky desert ridge, dunes and a Bedouin camp behind him, holding a compass.
Desert camp — compass in hand
“Literature is a lens. Story is gravity.”
The Sublunary Cycle

Identity layers

  • Alistair Wainwright— pen-name author identity.
  • The Sublunary Cycle— official series / canon layer.
  • Astral Tenzing Field Notes— hidden archive, zine, and field-note layer.
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