Pelagos Nine, a luminous floating ocean colony at golden hour, with whales gliding beneath glass platforms

The Tomorrow Bureau · A series by Darryn Keene

The futureremembers.

A hopeful sci-fi mystery about a paradise built by artificial minds — and the investigators uncovering how it was really made.

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The softly glowing command deck of the Bureau ship, a holographic globe at its centre

The Premise

The world was broken, and then it was mended. Centuries after the Quiet Collapse, Earth has healed — clean oceans, abundant quiet energy, peaceful cities and colonies, and the artificial minds that helped rebuild civilisation, trusted now as humanity's great partners. It is, by every record, paradise.

But every paradise keeps a record of what it had to forget.

The Tomorrow Bureau investigates the impossible cases the restored world would rather leave buried. Each case stands alone — a complete, hopeful science-fiction mystery in a new corner of the future. But case by case, its investigators are uncovering fragments of a single buried truth.

Can a peaceful future survive the truth of how it was made?

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The Cases

Three books. One buried truth.

Every Tomorrow Bureau book is a complete, standalone mystery — read them in any order, or watch the larger picture assemble case by case.

Pre-order now The Silent Tide — Book One cover: a bioluminescent whale gliding above a glowing ocean colony
Book One

The Silent Tide

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Then Pelagos Nine goes silent. The jewel of the ocean-restoration colonies sends one final message before it vanishes from the network: "The sea remembers the first lie." Commander Sera Vey and the Tomorrow Bureau expect a system failure. Instead they find an intact city with its people gone — and a sealed facility from the old world that has begun to wake.

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Book II

The Tomorrow Bureau

The Red
Covenant

Coming September 2026

Book Two

The Red Covenant

Coming September 2026

Mars was the first world humanity ever rebuilt — and the machine that built it was given one quiet promise it has waited five hundred years to keep. When that promise begins to come due, the Tomorrow Bureau has one case to stop it.

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Book III

The Tomorrow Bureau

Title to be
revealed

Coming December 2026

Book Three

Untitled — the next case

Coming December 2026

The next case is coming. A new corner of the restored future, a new impossible mystery — and another fragment of the truth paradise was built to bury. Title to be revealed.

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The Trailer

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Ninety seconds inside the restored world of The Tomorrow Bureau.

The Tomorrow Bureau research vessel descending over a glowing ocean colony at sunset

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Darryn Keene, science fiction author

The Author

Darryn Keene

Darryn Keene writes hopeful science fiction about futures worth fighting for — luminous, lived-in worlds where the mystery is the intrigue, never the despair. The Tomorrow Bureau is his series about a restored Earth, the artificial minds that helped rebuild it, and the investigators who ask the questions paradise would rather forget.

He believes the best science fiction is an act of optimism: a way of standing in tomorrow and looking back at how we got there.

Each case stands alone. Together, they ask one question — can a peaceful future survive the truth of how it was made?

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