About the Book: Kartik’s journey through space begins as an adventure but slowly becomes a quiet challenge to everything he believes about intelligence, emotion, and life. As he encounters alien worlds and unfamiliar minds, he is forced to rethink his deeply human way of seeing the universe. Guided by curiosity as much as confusion, Kartik moves through strange planets, unexpected friendships, and encounters that are at once funny, unsettling, and deeply humane. Science runs through the stories like a living thread, shaping a future that feels imaginative yet strangely possible.