u/Coreybastiaans

I’m Corey Bastiaans, a Vancouver artist and VFX professional, and I’ve been developing Book Theory Blue, an eight-part psychological science-fiction thriller.

The story follows Rory Pendleton, an artist recovering in a psychiatric ward after surviving a jump from Vancouver’s Granville Bridge. To earn his discharge, Rory must reconstruct how his interest in the 2023 UFO hearings became an obsession—and why he came to believe that an extradimensional intelligence called Mr. Blue was manipulating media, human behaviour and reality itself.

The series never gives the audience an easy answer. Rory may have suffered a psychological crisis intensified by grief, isolation, cannabis and obsessive research. But Anne, his neighbour, begins investigating his account and discovers a few details that ordinary explanations cannot completely resolve.

Each episode revisits Rory’s memories from another character’s perspective. His theories also unfold inside an imagined version of Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre, which gradually changes from a stage he controls into a psychological battleground.

At its heart, the story asks:

Can someone be experiencing psychosis and still be right about what they are seeing?

The project now includes a completed pilot, series bible, eight-episode season arc, pitch deck, concept trailer, original manuscript, visual material and music. Actor Ben Cotton is attached to play Rory through a signed letter of intent, subject to financing, scheduling and final agreement. I’m currently looking for an experienced producer and showrunner to help take it into professional development.

You can explore the project, watch the trailer and find the series pitch here:

https://booktheoryblue.weebly.com

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Hello, I would like to share a link to my pilot script sample I'm drafting. I'm making a scifi biography about UFOs, mental health, grief and loss. Full project website is booktheoryblue.weebly.com below is the dropbox link to the pilot sample.

Any comments or feedback is appreciated.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vv3sjnkbgvd4zb6v29hnu/13-BTB-Pilot-Sample.pdf?rlkey=jfbrubkwyfb7bsaiifqbyre9t&st=j2khty3y&dl=0

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I wrote a psychological survival guide for the mind disguised as a sci-fi novel. It explores the fluid nature of reality and the control structure of ‘unreality’. If you’re interested in ufo disclosure fiction and reality bending stories, check out Book Theory Blue (BookTheoryBlue.weebly.com)

I wrote a psychological survival guide for the mind disguised as a sci-fi novel. It explores the fluid nature of reality and the control structure of ‘unreality’. If you’re interested in ufo disclosure fiction and reality bending stories, check out Book Theory Blue (BookTheoryBlue.weebly.com)

I wrote a psychological survival guide for the mind disguised as a sci-fi novel. It explores the fluid nature of reality and the control structure of ‘unreality’. If you’re interested in ufo disclosure fiction and reality bending stories, check out Book Theory Blue (BookTheoryBlue.weebly.com)

I wrote a psychological survival guide for the mind disguised as a sci-fi novel. It explores the fluid nature of reality and the control structure of ‘unreality’. If you’re interested in ufo disclosure fiction and reality bending stories, check out Book Theory Blue (BookTheoryBlue.weebly.com)

I wrote a psychological survival guide for the mind disguised as a sci-fi novel. It explores the fluid nature of reality and the control structure of ‘unreality’. If you’re interested in ufo disclosure fiction and reality bending stories, check out Book Theory Blue (BookTheoryBlue.weebly.com)

I wrote a psychological survival guide for the mind disguised as a sci-fi novel. It explores the fluid nature of reality and the control structure of ‘unreality’. If you’re interested in ufo disclosure fiction and reality bending stories, check out Book Theory Blue (BookTheoryBlue.weebly.com)

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That is the central question behind Book Theory Blue, an independent psychological science-fiction project set in Vancouver.

The story follows Rory Pendleton, an artist who becomes obsessed with UFO disclosure, paranormal events and the disturbing possibility that ordinary reality is only a carefully maintained façade. As the connections multiply, Rory begins to perceive something behind that façade: an intelligence he calls Mr. Blue.

Is Rory uncovering the machinery of “Unreality”—or constructing an elaborate mythology as his life falls apart?

I created Book Theory Blue to leave that argument unresolved. It combines a novella with a proposed eight-episode television series, a concept trailer, original music, character art and an extensive visual pitch. The deeper you explore the project, the more the fictional investigation starts bleeding into the project’s real-world creation.

You don’t have to believe Rory. You only have to wonder whether reality is quite as settled as we pretend it is.

Explore the project here:

https://booktheoryblue.weebly.com/

If you look through it, I would genuinely like to know: At what point does Rory stop looking like a delusional man—and start looking like a man who may have noticed something?

Today is the Roswell anniversary, which feels like the right day to share this.

Roswell has always fascinated me because it is not just “an alien story.” It is a story about reality itself becoming unstable. One official statement says one thing. Another statement replaces it. The public is left staring at the gap between versions, wondering what was true, what was managed, and what got buried.

That same feeling is what inspired my novella, Book Theory Blue.

It is a UFO/paranormal psychological story about Rory Pendleton, a man trying to make sense of the 2023 UAP hearings, media silence, synchronicities, mental health, and the terrifying possibility that something unseen is shaping public perception. The central question is:

Can someone be suffering a psychological break and still be picking up on something real?

The book gets into UFO disclosure, unreality, spiritual paranoia, cosmic manipulation, and the idea that the world we live in may be edited by forces we barely understand. It is fiction, but it was written for people who have ever looked at the news, looked at the sky, looked at their own life, and thought: something is off here.

If Roswell was the beginning of modern UFO mythology, Book Theory Blue is my attempt to write from inside the modern version of that mythology — where the cover-up is not just about crashed metal in the desert, but about perception, despair, media noise, and the fight to stay human in a reality that keeps getting stranger.

The novella is available on Amazon here:

https://a.co/d/0e6QTowv

Would love to hear what people think, especially readers into UFO fiction, Philip K. Dick-style reality fracture, disclosure culture, psychological horror, and stories where the question is not simply “are aliens real?” but “what happens to a person when reality stops behaving?”

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Book Theory Blue follows Rory Pendleton, a man who watches the 2023 UAP hearings and expects the world to change. When the public response feels strangely muted, he begins connecting UFO secrecy, media narratives, consciousness, grief, and social control into a theory about Unreality and an extradimensional force called Mr. Blue.

His search for truth spirals into paranoia, catastrophe, psychiatric hospitalization, and recovery. The novel leaves its biggest question deliberately unresolved:

Is Rory experiencing delusion, insight, metaphorical truth—or some unstable combination of all three?

I also created a free book club guide with discussion questions about unreliable narration, UFO disclosure, psychosis, grief, free will, the meaning of Mr. Blue, the “purple beams” philosophy, and the book’s meta ending. It includes group activities and questions about how the story could work as a television series.

For readers who enjoy UFO mythology, psychological drama, dark comedy, unreliable narrators, and Philip K. Dick-style questions about reality:

Read the book: https://archive.org/download/book-theory-blue/BookTheoryBlue.pdf
Download the free book club guide: Book Theory Blue Book Club Guide - Book Theory Blue

Book Theory Blue is a grounded psychological sci‑fi thriller set in Vancouver about a man who can’t tell if he’s having a mental breakdown… or waking up to a cosmic intelligence manipulating reality.

The story follows Rory Pendleton, an ordinary Vancouver guy whose curiosity about real‑world UFO whistleblower hearings spirals into obsession. When the media completely ignores the hearings, something in him fractures. He starts noticing synchronicities, blue‑eyed strangers, and patterns he can’t explain. He becomes convinced an extradimensional force he calls Mr. Blue is shaping human suffering and editing reality itself.

The series opens after Rory survives a near‑fatal jump off the Granville Bridge. He wakes up in a psych ward — bruised, concussed, terrified — and begins trying to explain what happened. The show unfolds across three timelines:

1. The present‑day ward, where Rory tries to sound sane.
2. Flashbacks to his unraveling in Vancouver.
3. A surreal mind‑arena inside the Orpheum Theatre, where Rory narrates his theories directly to the audience.

As Rory recounts his story, we meet the people who shaped his collapse: Teddy, whose paranoia becomes contagious; Rupert, the unsettling blue‑eyed stranger who may not be human; and Purple Peach, a fellow patient whose empathy becomes Rory’s lifeline. The show uses perception‑based flashbacks — memories that shift depending on trauma, fear, or “beam alignment” — to blur the line between truth and delusion.

Visually, the show is Vancouver noir meets Kubrick: controlled framing, muted realism, and sudden intrusions of purple (hope, connection) and blue (control, despair). Cosmic horror is never spectacle — it’s implication, pressure, and the feeling that reality is misbehaving at the edges.

At its core, Book Theory Blue asks one question:
Can someone be experiencing a psychological break… and also be right?

Season 1 reconstructs Rory’s descent toward the bridge and his recovery afterward. By the finale, he stops trying to escape Mr. Blue and begins fighting back through story — creating the first Book Theory Blue website as an act of resistance.

The project comes with a full transmedia ecosystem: a manuscript written in‑world, a concept trailer, original music, a complete Season 1 arc, a series bible, and a signed LOI from actor Ben Cotton to play Rory.

Book Theory Blue is for fans of Mr. Robot, Severance, The OA, and True Detective — a grounded, emotional, paranoia‑driven mystery about perception, trauma, and the terrifying possibility that reality isn’t as stable as we think.

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Book Theory Blue is a grounded Vancouver psychological sci-fi thriller about Rory Pendleton, a man recovering in a psychiatric ward after the Granville Bridge incident.

As doctors try to understand what happened, Rory reconstructs the days leading up to his collapse: UFO whistleblower hearings, media silence, paranoia, a disturbing blue-eyed stranger named Rupert, and his growing belief that an extradimensional force called Mr. Blue is manipulating reality through fear, despair, and mass perception.

The show lives in three timelines: the present-day ward, the pre-fall descent, and the Orpheum Theatre mindscape, where Rory explains his theories directly to the audience.

The central question is simple: is Rory delusional, or is he the only one seeing the truth?

Season 1 is not just about a breakdown. It is about survival, authorship, and turning story itself into resistance. Rory begins as a man trying to escape Mr. Blue. He ends as a wounded but determined storyteller creating Book Theory Blue as his first strike back.

booktheoryblue.weebly.com/book-theory-blue-pitch.html

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I wrote a UFO disclosure-adjacent psychological sci-fi novel called Book Theory Blue.
It is about a Vancouver man whose obsession with UFO hearings, media silence, and synchronicity leads him to believe reality is being controlled by an extradimensional force called Mr. Blue.
The book itself is designed as an in-world artifact: a coded warning, a movie concept, and an act of resistance against Unreality.

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I’ve been building Book Theory Blue as a Vancouver-set psychological sci-fi series about UFO disclosure anxiety, perception collapse, media silence, and an unseen force called Mr. Blue.

The story is rooted in Vancouver: Granville Bridge, the psychiatric ward, rain-soaked streets, West Coast fog, apartment blocks, seawall walks, and that specific feeling of the city becoming strange when reality starts to bend.

One of the strangest parts of the project is that it also has an official soundtrack released under the artist name LEONE.

The songs aren’t just promo tracks. They are part of the story world — emotional signals from inside Rory Pendleton’s unraveling mind, reflections of the Mr. Blue mythology, and musical extensions of the Purple Beams / Blue Shadows conflict.

The soundtrack connects directly to the larger Book Theory Blue transmedia experience: the pitch, the manuscript, the visual style, the concept trailer, and the idea that art itself can become a warning against Unreality.

If you’re into Vancouver stories, psychological sci-fi, UFO-adjacent fiction, strange concept albums, or music tied to fictional worlds, check it out:

Book Theory Blue Official Soundtrack — LEONE
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Ex2CZklzpXXOxDlSnwEQL?si=C-wUgQHbRK6eTEj_I8-lIw

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I’ve been building Book Theory Blue as a Vancouver-set psychological sci-fi series about UFO disclosure anxiety, perception collapse, media silence, and an unseen force called Mr. Blue.

The story is rooted in Vancouver: Granville Bridge, the psychiatric ward, rain-soaked streets, West Coast fog, apartment blocks, seawall walks, and that specific feeling of the city becoming strange when reality starts to bend.

One of the strangest parts of the project is that it also has an official soundtrack released under the artist name LEONE.

The songs aren’t just promo tracks. They are part of the story world — emotional signals from inside Rory Pendleton’s unraveling mind, reflections of the Mr. Blue mythology, and musical extensions of the Purple Beams / Blue Shadows conflict.

The soundtrack connects directly to the larger Book Theory Blue transmedia experience: the pitch, the manuscript, the visual style, the concept trailer, and the idea that art itself can become a warning against Unreality.

If you’re into Vancouver stories, psychological sci-fi, UFO-adjacent fiction, strange concept albums, or music tied to fictional worlds, check it out:

Book Theory Blue Official Soundtrack — LEONE
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Ex2CZklzpXXOxDlSnwEQL?si=C-wUgQHbRK6eTEj_I8-lIw

I just released / finished a new LEONE track called “The Dying Light”, connected to the Book Theory Blue universe.

This one is different from the Mr. Blue / UFO / Unreality side of the project. It’s much more human and intimate — a melancholic alt-rock ballad from the point of view of Rory’s dying father, during one last moment outside the hospital before the sun fades.

It’s about wanting time to slow down when you know you’re living through a moment you’ll never get again.

No mythology. No conspiracy. No monsters.

Just a father, his child, the fading light, and the ache of trying to hold onto one final beautiful minute.

For me, this track is the emotional heart underneath Book Theory Blue. Before the cosmic horror, before the paranoia, before Mr. Blue — there’s grief, love, and the fear of losing someone.

Would love for people to hear it.

LEONE — “The Dying Light”

https://youtu.be/Yts6G7ojsrc?si=UhxkZiD8TeTNQpgs

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I’ve been building a creator-originated psychological sci-fi thriller called Book Theory Blue.

It’s designed as an 8 x 1-hour prestige series set in Vancouver. The story follows Rory Pendleton, a man trying to reconstruct what happened to him after a crisis on Granville Bridge — and whether the force he calls Mr. Blue is a delusion, an entity, a system, or something stranger.

The core question is:

Can someone be experiencing a psychological break… and also be right?

The series blends psychological thriller, UFO/disclosure fiction, Vancouver noir, media paranoia, grief, and subjective memory. The deck also lays out the Blue/Purple symbolic language, the Season 1 engine, perception-based flashbacks, and the larger transmedia foundation behind the project.

I’m currently looking for the right producer/showrunner partner to help develop it for television.

Here’s the pitch deck:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pxayopw8m9nh08tq3hmpo/03-BTB-Pitch-Deck.pdf?rlkey=mocqna6nl1j75ukudo9tll4x0&st=f4fq6wos&dl=0

Would love to hear what people think — especially about the tone, concept, and whether this feels like something that could live as a streaming series.