To Crystal and Jason, I truly appreciate you! Thanks for allowing me to join the Own It! family.

Immense gratitude to FlyLo for gifting me such an awesome title. And many thanks to Michael Salu for your beautiful cover design.

Thanks to the Society of Authors foundation and the Taner Baybars award, along with Arts Council England for their generous support.

FOOTNOTES

NOCTURNE

1 Central Hibernation Board

2 Automated Mothership Array

THE SANKOFA PRINCIPLE

1 Wormhole-induced Subatomic Particle

2 Euro-Asian Space Network

3 Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

4 Astronomical Unit

5 Thermal Protection System

6 Global Responsive Intersolar Defence System

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