Sol0, Part 1: Belonging. Enoch arrived on Mars expecting solitude. Instead, he found a community of human descendants thriving in structures grown from the red soil, speaking a language of gestures and falling cadences, living by rhythms he didn't understand. As he learns to splice conduits from plant fibers, tend gardens in lamplight, and listen to stories told by firelight, Enoch discovers that belonging isn't something you choose—it's something that happens when you stop measuring time and start measuring presence. A meditation on connection, identity, and what it means to come home to a place you've never been.
Neil McArdle is a science fiction author and narrator from Northern Ireland. He writes and narrates his own speculative fiction. His debut novel, Sol0, explores consciousness, presence, and the nature of time through an engineer who departs Earth expecting isolation and discovers instead a hidden Martian settlement, cosmic connection, and an encounter with the eternal. McArdle's work draws on theological inquiry and embodied epistemology, asking what it means to truly belong and how finite beings inhabit infinite presence within daily work, survival and growth.View all by Neil McArdle
