The protagonist's journey of James Wilkes is a process of alienation from "human" to "non-human". He represents the insignificance, struggle, and destruction of human beings in the face of cold cosmic forces that are far beyond their own understanding, as well as the unpredictable variables that are unexpectedly born in the destruction. His stories are tragic at their core, exploring questions of identity, consciousness, the survival of free will in the face of absolute power, and the dramatic impact that errors and flaws can have in sophisticated systems.
