If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

– Stephen Hawking

Sideways in Hyperspace is serial science fiction by Shiloh Miyazaki. It is the story of mankind’s first steps onto a vast galactic stage.

Arc I: First Contact

Chapter 1: Kicking Starward

Chapter 2: Spacetime

Chapter 3: The Ones Who Came Before

Chapter 4: A Moth in a Hurricane

Chapter 5: Ripples in a Cosmic See

Chapter 6: Hyperbolic

Chapter 7: Radioactive

Chapter 8: Wanderlust

Chapter 9: Drive

Chapter 10: Arrivals

Chapter 11: Dark Harvest

Chapter 12: A Prayer for Brighter Days

Interlude α: Martians

Arc II: Conflux Problems

Chapter 13: Humans in Funny Suits

Chapter 14: The Devils of our Better Natures

Chapter 15: Poor Coordination Polka

Chapter 16: That Other, Slightly Better World

Chapter 17: Stranger in a Strange Land

Chapter 18: Wreckage on the Sea of Time

Chapter 19: Correspondence Bias

Chapter 20: Clockwork Physics

Chapter 21: Butterfly Effects

Chapter 22: The Lightspeed Generation

Chapter 23: Very Much Like Us

Chapter 24: On the Shores of the Cosmic Ocean

Interlude β: Immortals

Arc III: Drake Equations

Chapter 25: Zugzwang

Chapter 26: Posthuman

Chapter 27: Availability Heuristics

Chapter 28: Depth of Field

Chapter 29: Pity for the Devil

Chapter 30: Missed Connections

Chapter 31: Particle Tracks

Chapter 32: Parallel Graves

Chapter 33: Pushing Salvation

Chapter 34: Integral

Chapter 35: The Idea That Kills Worlds

Chapter 36: Perverse Instantiation

Interlude γ: Gravity War

Intermission 01: The Transmission

Arc IV: Maginot Games

Chapter 37: Oscar Charlie Papa

Chapter 38: The Island of Misfit Toys

Chapter 39: The Internet of Hyperspace Things

Chapter 40: What’s a Little Excession Among Friends?

Chapter 41: Where Angels Fear to Tread

Chapter 42: Born to a World That Wasn’t

Chapter 43: Trolley Problems

Chapter 44: Rain Dances

Additional Material

Vessel Specifications

Timeline

Soundtrack

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