The Data Gardeners Paperback – November 9, 2025

Meet Chanito — traveler, drummer, smartass philosopher, and accidental hero.He’s on assignment to collect 10,000 human stories for a mysterious organization known as the TDG.Simple job.Except time sometimes slows when danger strikes.A purple-eyed woman keeps appearing at the edges of his journey.And his handler, Boo-boo, might know more than he’s saying.From Mumbai’s slums to Manila’s back-alley clubs, every story Chanito gathers leaves a ripple. Every connection alters something unseen. And with each chapter, he edges closer to a truth about grief, legacy, and the quiet ways ordinary people change the world.A soulful, speculative adventure about brothers who never say “I love you,” about fathers and sons, about Latinidad, and about the magic hiding inside human connection.For readers who want science fiction with heart — and a Puerto Rican hero at the center of the universe.Review: "To build a speculative fiction novel like "The Data Gardeners", take 2 cups of “The Midnight Library” by Matt Heig (similar protaganists in a life funk offered chances to explore a “repository of human experiences, 1 cup of “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell (similar themes of interconnected humans stories across time and space that show individual narratives contribute to a larger cosmic flow), 3 tablespoons of the philosophical tone of “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho (similar “quests” and ideas of “energy shifts”, 1 teaspoon of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams (similar bureaucratic yet cosmic nature, both evoking sci-fi satire vibes), and a pinch of “A Man Called One” by Frederik Backman (similar renewed purpose and “ordinary people doing extraordinary things” alignment)." Read more