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by Lyra Elowen (Author)
Before the world fractured, the system was already complete.
Genesis is a dystopian science fiction prequel that traces the origins of a nation undone not by chaos, but by design. Set in the years leading up to a second American civil war, the story follows Lucien, an idealistic scientist whose pursuit of truth draws him into the machinery of political power, scientific exploitation, and manufactured fear.
As unrest spreads and institutions harden, Lucien's path intersects with Yusra, a theology professor whose work examines belief, obedience, and the narratives societies use to justify violence. Through her scholarship and the quiet erasures happening all around them, they begin to recognize how ideology is shaped, sanctified, and weaponized. What they uncover reveals that trauma is not merely a byproduct of the regime, but a resource cultivated and preserved.
Their discoveries unfold alongside the rise of figures who will later define the world to come: architects of policy, enforcers of ideology, and a shadowed operative whose fractured memory conceals the truth of his own role in what is being built. What begins as an attempt to understand the system becomes a reckoning with the realization that some structures are not broken. They are working exactly as intended.
Blending political thriller, dystopian science fiction, and psychological horror, Genesis explores the weaponization of science, the sanctification of power, and the moral fractures that precede collapse. It is a story about origins, of war, of belief, and of the choices that make survival possible only for those willing to look away.
Genesis can be read as a standalone novel or as a prequel to [UNTITLED.], deepening the mythology of a world where memory, control, and resistance collide.
