
Book I · The awakening
My Journey to Planet Erra
A physicist follows an impossible signal from Utrecht to a civilization beneath two suns—and returns with a truth large enough to fracture reality.
The story behind the story
Writing at the boundary between personal experience and a reality larger than the one we are used to acknowledging.
Dutch author · explorer of ideas
Egbert Halderman writes novels about contact, consciousness and the boundary between the known and the unknown. His work brings science, spirituality, technology and human experience into the same room—and lets them question one another.
The beginning
Between Two Suns began with an image that would not leave: a woman, a map of Switzerland, an equation that no longer added up and a mountain calling to her.
Nachtegaalstraat—the street where Elsa lives—is personally familiar to Egbert. He once delivered mail there by electric scooter, passing the same façades, pavements and front doors that later gave the story its physical address.
That meeting of the ordinary and the impossible became the trilogy’s signature: cosmic questions experienced through a recognisably human body, family and place.
The enduring questions
Who are we? Where do we come from? What is our place in the universe?
Egbert has written across creativity, artificial intelligence, personal development, spirituality and fiction. Connecting that work is an interest in emerging technology, music and the continuing search for knowledge, insight and wonder.
The trilogy can be read as adult science fiction, an inner journey, an allegory or an invitation to see reality differently. It asks for no single interpretation—only that the reader stay curious a little longer.
The novels

Book I · The awakening
A physicist follows an impossible signal from Utrecht to a civilization beneath two suns—and returns with a truth large enough to fracture reality.

Book II · The aftershock
Elsa is home. Her story is spreading. And the truth moves through science, power and fear like a wave no institution can contain.

Book III · The reckoning
A new signal is changing human bodies across the world. Contact is no longer Elsa’s alone—and neither is the choice it demands.