the Arrivals’ Seminar on Love & Sex: Book Five of Andromeda Saga

At a hotel overlooking the North Sea, a group of unconventional thinkers gathers for a seminar unlike any other. Their subjects are love, sexual desire, morality, loneliness, artificial intelligence-and the future of humanity itself. The participants examine questions that societies often avoid. What is love, and does it deepen sexual experience? Why are erotic desire and pleasure still associated with shame? Can sexual behaviour be evaluated through consent, honesty, and actual harm rather than inherited prohibitions? And what will happen to human intimacy in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence? It asks whether many of humanity's deepest problems are rooted not in human nature itself, but in the patriarchal, fear-driven, and often hypocritical ways our societies have been organized for centuries. As discussions unfold, abstract ideas are tested through personal stories, unexpected encounters, and experiments in emotional presence. The seminar gradually becomes part of a much larger inquiry: can humanity create a social order based on freedom, responsibility, psychological knowledge, and a more honest understanding of love and sexuality? Part philosophical science-fiction novel, part exploration of human relationships, The Arrivals' Seminar on Love & Sex is the fifth book in the Andromeda Saga. It can also be read as an independent story. Provocative, sensual, and intellectually adventurous, the novel invites readers to consider whether love, emotional intelligence, and the courage to speak honestly about desire may be essential not only to individual happiness, but also to humanity's future.