KDP METADATA — WILDFLOWER (Book One)
BOOK DETAILS
Title: Wildflower
Subtitle: The Inverter Cycle: Book One
Series Title: The Inverter Cycle — Book 1
Author: Kristopher Richards
Publisher: Convergence Press
Publication Date: 2026
Language: English
CATEGORIES (BISAC)
- FIC028060 — FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
- FIC028000 — FICTION / Science Fiction / Alternative History
- FIC019000 — FICTION / Literary
KEYWORDS
- quantum biology photosynthesis Helena Voss Guildford
- science fiction thriller hard scifi quantum coherence
- Inverter Cycle Kristopher Richards wildflower book
- molecular biology genetic enhancement sacrifice
- British science fiction literary thriller 1980s
- Nick Bottom Maya Voss pattern recognition
- plant intelligence biophysics consciousness
DESCRIPTION
SHORT: Helena Voss discovers quantum coherence in photosynthesis in a 1987 Oxford laboratory. As the MOD closes in, she must choose between capture and a radical transformation. The first book of the Inverter Cycle trilogy.
LONG: What does the plant see?
In 1987, Helena Voss is a brilliant but isolated researcher at Oxford University, obsessed with a phenomenon everyone else insists is impossible: quantum coherence at physiological temperatures. She believes plants aren’t just consuming light; they are processing information using the same principles that govern the subatomic world.
When she identifies a genetic switch—the Inverter—that could allow human consciousness to access these same quantum states, she attracts the attention of those who want to weaponize her discovery.
Wildflower follows Helena’s final weeks as she races to document her findings before the Ministry of Defence can seize them. It is a story of scientific obsession, the cost of genius, and the ultimate sacrifice required to ensure that the pattern continues.
The first book in The Inverter Cycle trilogy, Wildflower bridges the gap between hard science fiction and literary thriller, exploring the moments when our understanding of the world breaks—and something new begins.