WILDFLOWER
The Inverter Cycle: Book One
By
Kristopher Richards
Convergence Press
Guildford, UK
First Edition
Copyright © 2026 by Kristopher Richards
All rights reserved.
Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Richards, Kristopher Wildflower : The Inverter Cycle, Book One / by Kristopher Richards. — First edition. pages cm ISBN [TO BE ASSIGNED] (e-book)
- Science fiction. 2. Quantum biology—Fiction. 3. Consciousness—Fiction. I. Title.
This is a work of fiction.
2026
DEDICATION
For Helena, who saw the pattern.
EPIGRAPH
“What does the plant see?”
— Helena Voss, 1987
PREFACE
This book was written alongside its screenplay, not after it. For years, I moved between the two forms—writing scenes in the morning as dialogue and action, expanding them in the evening as interiority and reflection. Neither is primary. Both document the same world.
The science in these pages is real, or as real as I could make it. The quantum coherence in photosynthesis is being measured in laboratories right now.
If you recognize yourself in these pages—if you have wondered whether your intensity was pathology or gift—please know that this book was written for you.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I acknowledge the Yawuru people’s ongoing custodianship of country, culture, and law. My gratitude to the scientific community: Greg Engel, Alexandra Olaya-Castro, Peter Hore, Stuart Hameroff, and Johnjoe McFadden.
The pattern continues.