Samuel DenHartog's Blog: The Road to 1,440 - Posts Tagged "dystopian"

Hello, Visionary Readers and Future Guardians,

Prepare to delve deep into the quantum folds of time with my newest novel, "The Calypso Effect." This thrilling sci-fi adventure catapults you into a world where past and future collide, driven by the daring endeavors of Marcus, a brilliant Particle Physics Engineer, and Calypso, a tenacious rebel from a dystopian future.

Marcus stumbles upon a quantum anomaly in his lab, igniting a chain of events that reveal harrowing visions of a world dominated by a totalitarian regime. Enter Calypso, who travels back from this bleak future to prevent her world's downfall. Together, they embark on a perilous journey, harnessing Marcus’s newfound abilities to reshape the fabric of time itself.

Join our heroes as they navigate intrigue and resistance, from covert operations in hidden labs to heart-stopping escapes from regime forces. Witness their struggle to forge a bond amidst chaos and their fight not just for survival but for the soul of the future.

"The Calypso Effect" represents the human spirit's resilience and the enduring fight for freedom and justice. Through Marcus and Calypso’s eyes, we explore the potential for change in the darkest of times and the moral complexities of wielding power over destiny.

Dive into this quantum leap of courage and conviction and discover how the actions of a few can ripple through the annals of time to inspire a revolution.

With the pulse of the future,
Samuel DenHartog

The world burned, and he chose to leave. Not to save himself, but to bear witness. "Solitude on the Moon" follows a billionaire who sees the end coming and builds a refuge above the chaos. From the safety of his lunar biosphere, he listens to the voices of four survivors across the globe, documenting the slow unraveling of civilization as a nuclear war reshapes the planet forever.

Each call brings him closer to the inevitable—scarcity turning to desperation, order collapsing into chaos, and finally, silence. He speaks with a scientist in the United States, an engineer in China, a financial analyst in India, and a journalist in France, all clinging to life in the aftermath. They believe in survival, but he knows better. As the years pass, one by one, their signals fade, leaving him alone in the vast emptiness of space.

With no voices left to answer, he turns to his instruments, scanning the Earth below. What remains is a graveyard—cities in ruins, rivers turned to dust, monuments collapsing into forgotten history. He was meant to be the last historian, but the burden of remembering weighs heavier than he imagined. If there is no one left to hear the story, does it even matter that he tells it?

This book is a meditation on isolation, destruction, and what it means to exist when everything else is gone. It explores the cost of survival and the unbearable weight of witnessing the end. The billionaire may have escaped the fate of humanity, but in doing so, he has also outlived its meaning.

What if your memories reset every seventy-two hours, and no one questioned it? That question sits at the core of this book. In a world engineered by outside forces to be peaceful and orderly, citizens live carefully curated lives where identity, emotion, and even love are systematically erased. The technology is perfect, the illusion complete, and most people go along willingly. But two people begin to remember what they’re not supposed to, and that changes everything.

The story follows Adrian and Mara, two citizens caught in the rhythm of resets who start to glimpse each other across the artificial blankness of their days. As pieces of a forgotten life resurface, they find themselves tethered not only to one another but to a deeper, more dangerous truth about the world they live in. Their connection becomes more than emotional. It becomes a threat. The more they remember, the more cracks appear in the system that holds everything together.

This book blends emotional memory with speculative science, focusing not on laser battles or far-off planets, but on the quiet, intimate tension of knowing something is wrong and being powerless to prove it. The science fiction elements such as memory engineering, emotional anchors, and systems of control are there to ask a larger question: What does it mean to truly choose who you are, if every part of your past is constantly taken from you? The answer is not delivered in speeches or exposition. It plays out in fragments, stolen moments, and choices that feel both impossible and inevitable.

“Until We Forget Again” is a book about memory, but also about resistance. It is personal, emotional, and systemic. It is about what we hold onto when the world is designed to make us let go. And it is about how even in the most controlled environments, love can become the most disruptive force of all.