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Bound to Witness is a quiet science-fiction novel about observation, restraint, and the cost of not intervening. Told through a series of reconstructed records, the story follows an observer assigned to a closed world designed for study-not rescue. His role is simple: watch, document, and remain silent. For a long time, that silence works. Then he meets Rin. As the world reveals its limits-geographic, structural, and moral-the boundary between witnessing and choosing begins to erode. Decisions are delayed. Consequences accumulate. And the system meant to remain untouched starts to fracture under the weight of human presence. Sparse, atmospheric, and emotionally precise, Bound to Witness explores responsibility without heroism, love without salvation, and what happens when observation itself becomes a form of interference. This is not a story about saving the world. It is a story about being present when it cannot be saved.

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Prince Hubbard writes speculative fiction that centers on observation, memory, and the systems that govern human endings. His work explores what it means to witness events without the power to intervene, focusing on restraint, omission, and the quiet consequences of inaction. He is the creator of The Unfinished Case Files, a narrative project that spans prose, visual media, and archival fragments, and the author of Bound to Witness, a reflective work examining accountability, belief, and the cost of surviving without choosing. His stories resist clear answers, favoring atmosphere and structure over exposition, and often position the reader as an implicit observer rather than a participant. Hubbard's writing blends literary science fiction with philosophical and psychological tension, emphasizing internal reckoning over external conflict. He is currently developing additional works within The Unfinished Case Files universe, alongside standalone projects that explore similar themes of documentation, identity, and irreversible choice.

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