
by Declan Thornwood
Martin Brown did not volunteer to leave Ireland. Teela did not expect her Journey of Discovery to strand her impossibly far from home. Garden House Nine does not seem to understand why either of those things is a problem. At a place where time and space have become unreliable, an intelligent house has started collecting guests it believes need looking after. Martin and Teela, accompanied by Teela's ribbon-like AI companion Siv, find themselves dealing with runaway alien plants, impossible technology, dragons that may not technically be dragons, and a house whose idea of hospitality has become dangerously literal. Escaping Garden House Nine should solve the problem. Instead, it gives them a ship. Now the travellers aboard the *Morrow* are moving through places and times that do not quite fit together, trying to help the people they encounter while working out where they are, when they are, and whether the universe they left is even the one they came from. *The Elsewhen Travellers* is a cosy-adjacent science-fiction adventure featuring found family, dry humour, quirky AI, temporal mysteries, low-gore stakes and a slow-burn romantic thread. **Volume One: Garden House Nine**
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 09:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 09:38 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
4%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Mystery → Romance → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi + Mystery + Romance (1%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#3022 of 12,200 · 2972 below RS #50
By genre
beats 25% of similar stories
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beats 39% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.