Is the ALIEN AUTHOR a HIGHLY-EVOLVED QU? (All Tomorrows Theory) 

He could very well be a Qu descendant and as penance for his ancestors sins he tries to research and chronicle the histories of their victims so that they aren’t forgotten. Never thought of that.

Something I can't help but wonder is if the author's species is a highly evolved descendant of one of the non-sentient species that inhabited one of the planets within the second galactic empire, either as a native species or as livestock for the post humans, that was able to evolve sentience after humanity's extinction. The reasons I think this is because 1) it would explain how the author had such access to all the resources with which to study humanity, something that would have been difficult if he had come from somewhere far out in the cosmos, and 2) with the race having developed on a planet covered in post-human fossils and ruins, the author's fascination with humanity would have been cultural, similar to humanity with dinosaurs, and would explain the immense effort put into their study. This is possibly my most tinfoil hat theory for this book but I love to imagine it

I think that looking at The Author as a completely alien species really seals the deal on the entire idea of the book and that last line especially: “Love today, and seize All Tomorrows”. There is going to be something else after you, but it won’t be you, so take everyday and make the most of it. I do like the idea of The Author just being really into the history and evolution of humanity like people today (myself included) being really into the history and evolution of dinosaurs and other prehistoric life.

I think the Alien Author is a new species who showed up long after sub-species of Humanity vanished from the Universe. Their interest in Humanity probably piqued due to the ruins and derelict Asteromorph Worldships found drifting in the void.

It's definetely possible considering that the Qu are the only species that the Author has outright expressed any kind of negative comments towards to (calling them monsters for example) instead of looking at them purely on an academic way or trying to give us their POV when it comes to why they did what they did (like they did with the Gravitals). If that is the case, it's likely that the Author's species still harbors shame/hatred towards their ancestors due to everything they have done to the past.

I've never given much thought into this subject. To me alien author is just alien author. Just like European archeologist researching foreign and unknown culture of ancient Egypt or mesopotamia, fascinated by what the previous civilisations achieved, and how they lived their lives. Only on much, much grander scale

I wouldn't be surprised if the author was a Qu and that humanities final revenge was living happily without them and leaving the Qu with a mystery that they'll obsess about for ages. However, humanity engaging with other galaxies kinda gives me the impression that humanity surpassed the Qu.

In the book tangent worlds, there are very slow moving, animal like organisms that are shaped like plants. as if something modified earth animals to be like that. in their future there are sketches of the "ultimate beings" one of them looking exactly like the author. this species also has the ability to take a glimpse of the past.

Since the author is holding a modern human skull he must have been able to find Earth which means he either is as advanced as Astramorphs or he was able to find their records

I think it's very possible that the Asteromorphs, the Qu remnants who were sympathetic to the galactic struggles, and possibly also the Amphicephali created new beings that would have outsurvived them. Some collaborative, some exclusive.

I only know that the Author said that Lopsiders lived in flattened houses like pancakes, so in conclusion: 1 billion years in the future the pancakes still exist and the Author knows them... Yeah, this is kinda useless data .3.

I like the idea they're a new species who evolved naturally unrelated to Qu or Humans, but it is possible that the Author is a descendant of hybrids between Qu and Humans. Maybe after the Qu were driven to defeat the Asteromorphs decided to make a new race, much like the Star People.

For the author to have had a human skull, they must have had to inhabit Earth, or come across it some how. Perhaps whatever alien species had access to galactic history also had a small record keeping of "Human" history. Maybe human history was a niche subject in the universe's history, the same way someone stumbles across an indie band they like. Curiosity caused the alien to go out and seek Earth, and find any remains or footprints of an extinct race. Also, I feel like the asteromorphs could find a way to leave behind their history written and recorded somewhere. A pod or capsule, waiting to be found drifting in space. IDK, just my splurge and thoughts of this wicked story. Also, I find it funny that the Alien probably doesn't even know that they are holding the human skull upside down. No idea what the early human couldve looked like.

My burning question, though, is how the author obtained a skull of the ORIGINAL Homo sapiens, dating to either a billion years ago or two billion (depending on whether or not I’m misreading the passage of time)

The Gravital VS. The Asteromorphs kind of sounds like The Daleks VS. The Timelords to me.

My 2 cents is the Author is a descendant of the copper boned aliens found on the planet where the Earth-dinosaur-esque animal was found. Gives the story a loop back to the beginning of colonisation and gives those animals kind off a story too

I've always assumed he was completely alien to all the forms of life All Tomorrows previously introduces us to. His narration is one of a third party--an outsider looking back much the same way we do with other extinct species here on Earth.

I have a spurious itching theory that the Author is an alien species that is extremely far away, and disconnected from the Star People and Qu and everything we currently know in All Tomorrows. I have a feeling that he's from another dimension, if he's not from a super distant galaxy, studying the remnants of what we'd seen in the book. An ancient archiver from a far-flung world, treading the soil of our long-dead world...

I'd say it is an alien who's civilization has discovered Human, Qu, post-human empire and Gravital ruins and like any archeologist who has found a long lost civilization is trying to peice together what had happened. As a speculative evolution, all of this relatively speaking is long past events that have been uncovered and are trying to peice together. Like other C.M. Kosemen books, they could be mistaken and all of this is educated guesses as the languages are probably not even comprehensive to them and likely none if it is to us. It is only written in english by the actual author for our convenience. If the in-universe author wrote this book, it would be in a completely otherworldly language.

He could a descendant of the race that attacked the bug facers

The author knows so much about humans and he doesnt seem bais he should pick up on whether or not hes human as well.

The alien author reminds me, about the anthropologist and archeologists found the remains of Lucy in Ethiopia and how humans evolution branched from her.

Awesome video. A really out there idea I had was that the Author was descended from one of the copper boned alien species that evolved along with the panderavis. The only thing I really had to go on though was strange tentacle like appendage both the Author and Copper bone species possess. As well as the tail of the CBS being similar to the protrusions on the Authors head. Like I said, pretty out there with not much connection but a fun idea.

I think it makes the most thematic sense for them to be a new species that emerged long after these conflicts of old could've ever possibly affected them.

My theory is what if the Author's species actually is a human (perhaps a species of the many freed Subjects), however his kind had existed, changed, and evolved for so long that him and his species don't even recognize themselves as human anymore?

it's alien author's PhD dissertation project on the history of humanity

Your timing is perfect, I was just rewatching some of your videos this morning so have had all tommrows in my head all day lol. Iv always thought the author was a highly evolved posthuman and its been a billion years so its become unrecognisable i know this doesn't really make any sense cos there apparently all extinct but it's still possible. It could just as easily like you say be an evolved Qu or an evolved post-qu or mybe a descendant of their creations or perhaps it is just an alien. I don't mean to rush you but keep it up man your channel is growing so fast, its good to see it.

I don't think even Kosemen thought far enough to give the Author a backstory but if i had to guess from the information given, it's either something related to the Panderavis (due to their proximity to Earth)or the New Machines. (still technically not 'related' to humans) Either way even if it's not either of those i hope they would be given an interesting background story, something we wouldn't really expect, something containing a nice plot twist. One version of the Chinese character ku (which someone on Reddit pointed out to look similar to the Qu)apparently means skeleton so the skull might hint at the Qu theory's validity.

I think he's just a random alien whose species evolved after the Asteromorphs, Amphicephali, and Qu were long gone from the galaxy.

This is a good question

The author is in my guess a totally alien being ..with as you’ve stated a xenobioligist . With a curiosity as to how nearly a bunch of god like races have all disappeared..and that should concern all . Are they dead, are existing on a different plane of reality..and most disturbing of all …are they coming back 😳 Great video 🍻

Reminds me of a thought for a short story idea I had about the Asteromorph and the Qu reconciling and accepting one another into their respective Empires, rather than the Asteromorph destroying/remaking the Qu out of revenge. I feel like humanity exacting some form of revenge upon to Qu kinda takes away from the message of the book.

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Isn’t the author (in-universe alien author) named (or at least called) Nemo Ramjet? Or is that just a pen name that the IRL author (C.M. Cozseman) uses for other projects of his? (And as for the Alien Author’s motive for his study, he’s probably just really interested in Xenoarcheology and the like.) (There also is one thought that pops into my head every time I see that picture of the alien author with the Billion year old Human skull: How is it in such good condition for a fossil THAT old? And how is he able to uncover photographs of post-humans like the Pterosapien if film and hard drives are susceptible to deterioration over long periods of time?) (Does he have access to some form of Chronovision?)

First Theory: by looking at the image you can see than the alien author is holding a modern human skull what its very rare since the humans become the star people and they skulls were alot larger than a human one, my theory is than when the qu met with the star people there where also the humans (not star people) living on earth witch also were killed by the qu and modify by them into another bizzare things one of them being the alien author that may explain why the alien author have a human skull in his hand since maybe after the qu killed all humans they body were fossilized and discovered by this alien author and the book of all tomorrows is based in the evidence than the alien author found after the rediscovery of earth since by looking the image of the earth in the book we can see than it still have life on it and it could have complex form of life in his surface witch ones after the extinction of the Asteromorphs one of this ones evolved into a intelligent species this being the author one. Second Theory: the alien author is one of the subjects than the asteromorphs created and leave them on earth before they extition where the alien autor discovered the human history Third Theory: for some reason unknown maybe the Asteromorphs reached all thing they could have and knew they knew everything and they were bored there wasnt anything new and any thing to be discover they reached to multiple galaxys and saw all the universe, they were gods but this gods were bored bored of they own known so maybe they were so bored than wanted a clean restart, they wanted to rediscover all the things than they discovered so to do so they needed a planet a single one to start all over again this could be the cradle of mankind it self so they did it they genetically modified them self to be in a planet with gravity they leave alittle of they history in the earth so the new alien race knew the errors than the mankind did in the past. The astromorphs destroyed themselfs because they were bored wiping all of they civilization across the universe everyone of the species made by the asteromorphs were killed and with a universe with no danger this new species could grow without any alien intervention Foruth Theory: The alien author is just that a alien than came to earth a billion years after the extinction of the asteromorphs and discorvered the earth, traveling across many worlds to look for more history about the humans Note: The alien author is very simillar to a asteromorphs also we cant think than they would look very similar since we dont know how many years this new species has been around but the eyes the arms and the head look very similar to the asteromorphs.

I think he is just a random alien. The whole point of the book is that nothing lasts forever

Video #30 that I've commented on to help this amazing channel with the algorithm

This is my opinion. I don't really consider any of the post humans from all tomorrows as humans. Here's why. Lets talk about the snake people. People love to say that any alien who was descended from star people are "humans" But this doesn't make too much sense to me. I know they are post star people but snake people have completely different bodies and new species. Lets talk about the asteromorphs. I gotta talk about this one. I really don't consider them as humans in any way here's why: Lets say humans. We don't consider ourselves as apes or primates. We just think of ourselves as well "humans.. " Saying any new alien star people descend species are humans is like saying humans are still their fish ancestors yes humans were fish before, Then became lizard like then squirrel like then evolved into a monkey like animal then the monkeys evolved into apes then evolved into homosapiens. If an asteromorph was real and you said to them "You are a human" If they had a sense of humor they would probably laugh. Or if not they would call humans fish who thinks humans are still fish. If our ancestors were sapient and they spoke to you humans saying "You are us" You would say no. We are not you. We are humans. We don't consider ourselves as fish or squirrels we are just humans to us. Same would go for the asteromorphs.

The asteromorphs might've not been extinct, they might've just "ascended" so much that they just straight up left, leaving a handful of history about their past, but not share much of the more recent things, like the Qu wars or anything after

ive never clicked so fast

He is a highly evolved astaromorph, his species for get their past some much, that they didn't know their human.

I think the author is one of two things 1. The author could be a lopsider. I know this sounds unlikely but due to the singular long protruding arm the he has, is only similar to the lopsiders. 2. The author could be another form of star people(s) that escaped similar to the spacers way back when. That could explain why he is curious of the past of the human species, and why he has an ancient homosapien skull. He has all the knowledge on the way of life all the post homosapiens lived so my guess is that he discovered the planets with a team of other like minded scientists and discovered fossils of the post humans. The finding of these planets would not be a big deal in universe as hundreds of millions of planets are already habituated or abandoned, so it's no shocker that he could have access to a human skull. This also supports that he knows about the war that happened between humans and Martians, as he could have found remnants of the war and logs of the star people post war.

I hope this mystery is solved in Koseman's new All Tomorrows book! 🤞

love your channel, keep it up bro!

what i f the auther is a decendent of one of those copper bone aliens from the early warning chapter. since those creatures had 3 limbs its possible that the arm of the auther is that 3rd limb

In my opinion, the only issue with the Author being descended from the Subjects is that they're still, technically, human. As such, it stands to reason that they're long dead.

My theory is that the author is a Snaiad Alien that evolved sentence (if you don’t know what a Snaiad alien is then check out the project Snaiad) because if you look at what looks like the eye may actually be the genital sheets and the tentacle may actually be the exposed throat that Snaiad aliens have so I think that the author evolved from a nocturnal species from Snaiad

He is just like our human kids obsessed with dinosaurs

The author is an alien species and an archaeologist among the countless and countless of intelligences in the universe.

Good content!

my theory is that there was one human dressed as mr krabs at the time of the qu's invasion and the qu decided to merge him with his mr krabs costume and then he evolved into that because for some reason the author reminds me of mr krabs

Why does the author kinda look like the modular people?

1 billion years = twice the time that has passed since the later Cambrian period. The Author could be anything.

Bugfacers being the progenitor is the first thing I thought seeing the illustration.

Or maybe the qu modified themselves in the end maybe this is why he calls them monsters because he's an evolved version of the qu and they not only experimented on humanity but in the end on themselves as well to be able to preserve themselves and make sure they can adapt and carry on threw history in different forms

Now i realize: what happen to star peoples on Earth and Mars when Qu arrive?

What if the author was an experiment but a hybrid of an Astro Morph & Qu?

"The Author's species, along with the Qu, Amphicephali, and the unnamed invaders of the Bug Facers, are the only truly alien beings (as in not having human ancestors) in All Tomorrows." So the Author couldnt descent from any posthuman, i would say that the Author is rather a Qu descendent or it is its own alien kind not originating from any of them.

Have you considered doing a reading of Man after Man?

what if the qu once altered a species to document them and their achievements and the alien author is just a decendant of that species documenting their downfall. that would also explain why after billions of years he still knows about the star people and the skeleton they found and also why he knows about every species the qu created from humans and why

Also whats up with that absolutely enormously large cylinder right behind him?

I was just thinking "what is the author?" and this appears in my feed, get out of my walls or pay rent.

I like that the real life author leaves some things vague. It makes me think of the Horus Heresy from Warhammer 40,000. It use to be this period of myth in which humans weren't sure what exactly happened, leaving us fans with a lingering interest. Then they fleshed it out completely, which it was nice to know what happened, but it killed the mystery of it.

I don't think the author is a descended from the Qu asteromorph or any post human. I don't think the author is descended from the qu because as you said in the asteromorph video, Revenge is very immature for godlike beings and only a lower being could want something to do with revenge. I highly agree with your "what did the asteromorphs did with the qu" video because what you said about revenge is a petty lower being thing and gods should not do such immature tip for tap is very true. Also nice video! I think the author is a alien who found dead aliens who died years ago and now he is interested to find out what happened. But i don't think he would be writing or knowing about that all alone. Maybe their could be more who was researching for what happened to the deceased alien [post humans] and worked together to make a story of the book like more scientist and researchers.

Looks like a combination of the Qu and the asteromophs.

I have a theory that the author is descendant of the Snaiad vertebrates phylum because of some points... That "arm" of their's could easily be descendant of the Snaiad vertebrates second head, you can even observe that opening they have on the beginning of the arm. Another fact is that they doesn't have a "first head" mouth, and it could have happened because of their evolution in ways to eat food, where they easily could have developed some more efficient way to break the food before eat it and then, by the course of millions of years, their first head mouth disappeared

Just gonna through it out there he could be a highly evolved amphicefilie

I do not think the Writer is a human descendant because we as a species have the tendency of archirving hour history, so the information about the latter part of the story would be a Lot more clear and they would (maybe) still have some time of archive

I've a excellent question about the author; a fictional character in the all tomorrows, why is the book it decided to write down be in English, sent a billion years back in time to Earth in the 21st century and just so happens to do some undefined things that lead it to be published somehow assuming the book is actually extremely accurate about the future.

The author is kosemen, but as an alien doing research into the speculative biology of humanity, so I doubt it's a Qu.

so those two other entities beside the main "Qu" aren't Qu as well? every video i've seen has made every conclusion on the middle entity is the only way they look, if those are Qu as well then the Qu are a breed of different shapes and sizes. I felt like this would matter but Idk if it does anymore, but saying there are similarities in the way they look can't be a factor in the theory if the Qu are different shapes and sizes like depicted in the picture of the three of them. maybe i haven't watched enough to know what those two entities are.

Maybe the author is the Real Authors skinshaper and that skullface was the authors(human)skulface

I, too, have concluded that the author's species is most likely that of extraterrestrial origin.

He's what's left after all this nightmare.

Remember those snake guys that were also effected by the QU? Maybe one of their species is what ended up with the author.

i think that the author is coming from another galaxy because life can’t just re-evolve in 1 billion years, or maybe he’s a distant descendant of the qu or Asteromorphs because if rats can turn into every type of mammal in only like 60 million years, the qu and asteromorphs could easily evolve into the author in a billion years, but hey that’s just my theory.

I think seeing the author as a spinoff of humanity is possible but unlikely, with the same being said for the author as a spinoff of the Qu. Instead, I think the intent of the book was for the author to be so far detached from humanity that he could fanboy over them and have this kinda cringey level of adoration for humanity so long after they've died off, like how the actual author said it was inspired by the rise and fall of the Roman empire. Making the author a completely new species rather than a centuries-later descendant like we see to books on ancient Rome is only applying the same hyperbolic lens that we see in the story of the human race; millions of years instead of hundreds; species instead of races.

Besides qu, i believe there are alien species that completely unrelated to humans in all tomorrows universe (even there is still a controversy that the qu is actually asteromorphs time traveling). The bug facers survived alien invasion before the gravitals and its not the qu who did it. So i just like to think the author is completely unrelated to any creatures he chronicled, simply a new and different alien species that discovers earth

What if the author is a descendant of interbreeding between the Asteromorphs and the Qu? In the same way that when homo sapiens encountered neanderthals we wiped out most of them but interbreeded with some, maybe some Qu surrendered to the Asteromorphs willingly in their war and eventually were allowed to interbreed (either through "normal" means or by gene splicing between the two species). I think this could make sense as a final outcome of the war between the Asteromorphs and the Qu since I feel the Asteromorphs would have been too evolved to simply wipe the Qu out or enslave them and may have considered genetic unity as a way to gain a lasting peace.

It looks like it has the eyes of a flower mantis

Maybe he is an extraterrestrial librarian sent out Eons ago to study a specific part of the universe and report back of what he finds. Or maybe his race is so advanced traveling lightyears with ease is as common as cars, and mortality is a joke or maybe it just some historian, one of many trying to fund life in the universe much like us either way.

Highly unlikely, the dude's probably a member off the younger races newly evolved, learning the history of the universe theough xenoarcheology... which fits the C. M. interest in sepeculative paleontology.

If the Qu were so amazing, why hadn't they discovered us when we were slumming it up on Earth? I feel that species that advanced would have leveled us earlier, we wouldn't even reach star child state.

The story of the astaromorph is that they become more alien and inhuman, so the author race became even more alien and less astaromorph. The story of the spacers is to become less of themselves. So The author's race became, what astaromorph were not. A specie's will become so different, that they forget their past, the author want to find his ancestors yesterdays. He saw a ancient billion year old skull, he thought it's a different species, he didn't realise that skull belonged to his ancestors. CM kösman rot the past of dinosaurs, the alien author root the past of humanity. All tomorrow's is a documentary about us human will become in human.

I strongly believe the Asteromorph/Qu hybrid theory. Just look at it. It has a single appendage (like the Qu) but with fingers and even a thumb like a human. It has two eyes that have merged into one ( if you look closely you can see the pupils are two ). Now look it's head. Almost the same as the Asteromorph. But it has two circular things that look like they are atrophied Qu eyes (but i am not sure about that)

This is highly unlikely but I wonder is it possible that the author is from a speice that are descendants of one of the genetically modified star people who evolve their sentient long after the first and second galactic empire and the memory of them being the star people has long forgotten.

I've been wanting to read the book myself for quite some time now digital or otherwise.

Why does he look like one of the modular people. Maybe he is an highly evolved human. Maybe the astromorphs have left some human races that did not know they were human. They just thought that they are another whole race

The author could be a a fusion of both the qu and the astromorphs.

We know there are aliens in the book aside from the Qu, like the both-side heads and the unnamed aliens who attacked the bug-facers. I think the author is just an alien.

I thought it was a heavily derived snaiad...

one thing about the astromorths- we are talking about deep time here. We are also talking about evolution. It is entirely likely that one branch of the astromorphs evolved to live on land. It would probably happen thousands of times if not millions of times on the scale of deep time. I think this is one of the weak points of this series, given enough time many if not all of these species could come about using evolution alone and enough isolated environments. This is a truly frightening aspect of the idea of human spreading out into the universe. By the time we colonise all of the milky way there will no longer exist humans as we recognize. Even with faster than light technology the distances are just to great and the isolated groups will branch into distinct species. if faster than light technology is impossible then the isolated islands of life will diversify even faster. We will evolve to be amazing and caring creatures, and we will evolve to be monsters more ruthless and horrifying than any in fiction. This will all happen over and over again a million times. Again we are talking about periods of time that are all but unfantable to us. This is all assuming we don't kill each other off before we can start to spread to other stars.

His cartoonish eyes looks like cgi…

Do you remember the species that attacked the bug faces?

i am the alien author and this is my time and space sensitive RU-vid account, thank you

To be hones, I will take a deep interest on loong forgotten civilisations, no matter if I'm somo how connected to them or not like the alien autor, and, keeping on mind that the human history was some how preserved over mor than a billion years it was a chanse that most certainly he would never have agane

I wonder like Gravitals vs Qu?

I made a drawing of author in a qu looking style on reddit

Didn't the Asteromorphs wipe out the Qu?

the alien auther is the qu + the astromorphs but after generations lost its qu limb i guess