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Robby Joshi, AIA, is a futurist storyteller, urban designer, planner, and NCARB-certified licensed architect whose work bridges visionary imagination and real-world execution. With more than twenty-five years of professional experience leading projects from concept design through construction, he has built a career around transforming ambitious ideas into tangible realities. His portfolio spans new townships, commercial centers, high-rises, healthcare facilities, hospitality destinations, technology campuses, data centers, convention venues, and theme parks, large-scale environments that demand both systems thinking and creative foresight.

Over the course of his career, Joshi became known for cultivating long-term client relationships and delivering multidisciplinary design leadership across a range of complex project types. In the years following the 2008 recession, he expanded his practice internationally into Southeast Asia, rebranding as ARCHENICS and providing global design and engineering services to multinational clients. Earlier in his career, he worked with major architecture and engineering firms, including Jacobs Facilities, HOK, and The Austin Company, experiences that helped shape the technical rigor and global perspective that now inform both his design work and his fiction.

That same instinct for envisioning what does not yet exist led Joshi beyond architecture and into speculative storytelling. He became increasingly drawn to a larger question: if a building, a city, or an entire built environment can first exist as an idea and then be brought into physical reality, what might happen when that same discipline of imagination is applied to humanity’s future? That line of inquiry became the foundation of Eleven Elements, an ambitious seven-book science fiction series that blends time travel, philosophy, politics, spirituality, and speculative social design into a sweeping narrative about civilizational survival.

In Joshi’s fiction, world-building is not simply decorative; it is structural, ideological, and deeply human. His stories explore how manuscripts, ideas, systems, and moral choices can alter the fate of entire societies. Drawing from decades of experience in planning, architecture, and global development, he writes with the conviction that the future is not something humanity passively inherits, but something it actively designs. This rare combination of professional authority and imaginative reach gives his work a distinctive voice, cinematic in scale, intellectually provocative, and grounded in plausible frameworks for social and environmental transformation.

Based in Florida, Robby Joshi continues to balance professional design practice with long-form storytelling, building worlds in both physical and fictional form. His work will appeal to readers and industry professionals interested in high-concept speculative fiction that pairs thriller momentum with big-idea ambition, stories that ask not only where humanity is headed, but what kind of future it still has time to create.

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SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY

ELEVEN ELEMENTS

BY ROBBY JOSHI • POSTED ON Jan. 20, 2026

Time-traveling agents from the 26th century materialize in 21st-century Florida on a mission to ensure the survival of a manifesto that will save the Earth.

In Joshi’s SF debut, a time-traveling squad from 2532 voyages back five centuries to central Florida on an urgent task. But their rematerialization goes awry, leaving some agents gruesomely disintegrated. The hasty mop-up alerts local authorities that something uncanny is afoot. Veteran time-travel mission commander Maxilon Renner suffers partial amnesia, only belatedly recalling their quarry: Joshua DeWine, aka Jaiswal Diwanji, an Indian American architect who’s also a biological prodigy/mystic/messiah. (He’s “like the human system booting into its most optimal version.”) His unpublished The Manifesto of Eleven Elements is destined to convert greedy humankind into responsible planetary stewards, but a spreading zone of darkness across the years ahead indicates that this crucial manuscript doesn’t survive. The team must ensure that DeWine’s sustainability blueprint circulates despite a possible traitor among Renner’s ranks, the interference of rival time travelers, and the likely involvement of rogue sentient AIs called “uBots.” The narrative includes much sermonizing about the violations of Mother Earth (the 2532 folk, hailing from a utopian culture, can barely tolerate 2025). As the plot unfolds, themes from the DeWine manuscript begin to dominate; characters are transformed by the manifesto and become conduits for the message. Appendices outline new forms of government, economy, and so on; the clever author has anticipated that critics will complain that a crackerjack SF thriller has been lost in the shuffle. Variant spellings and disguised versions of real people (including a Donald Trump whose crazy policies might actually be a brilliant bulwark against a sinister Chinese conspiracy) suggest that all of this happens in a parallel reality—one in which fictional news outlets blurb this book. Fans of similar what-ifs (Salman Rushdie’s 1999 novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet comes to mind) will most likely be transfixed, but with several more books promised in the series, it’s an open question as to whether the indoctri-tainment will hold up as well as it does here.

Plans for a better Earth packaged as a time-travel SF thriller (or maybe the other way around).

Pub Date: Jan. 20, 2026

ISBN: 9798993308500

Page count: 435pp

Review Posted Online: March 3, 2026

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 15, 2026

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