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Dreams Written in Madness: A New Weird, Dystopian Sci Fi
This cannot be it. We cannot be all that is left. My colleagues are dead, this world is dead, and I have inherited nothing in my rebirth but ruin and decay.
Everything this colony built, everything I built, was destroyed in a blink of an eye, but that was during my first life.
Jeff Myers is there, at the end of the world, at the total death of humanity.
Civil war engulfs the streets, buildings burn with an inferno of heat and collapse in a release of shockwaves that ripple through his very bones, and still the battle wages on. Rebels fight against military police, for a cause Jeff cannot understand.
But some areas of the capitol city are not designed to withstand wildfire, and there are the lost nuclear reactors that powered the pioneer’s journey from distant Earth buried somewhere near the city.
Jeff Myers dies with the end of the world and is reborn into a greater horror.
He is brought into his second life by alien creatures he does not understand. Whose manipulations of his body cause him to question if he is still human. He has only a broken man for company.
The colony on this lonely moon must be revived, it must be returned to its former glory, because Jeff knows it was that last place that humankind had survived on. He and Alex are the last humans, and they are also the very first.Humanity must break this cycle of self-destruction; Jeff will make sure of it. Using the tools in this scientist’s hands, he will use genetic manipulation to revive his people, not to who they once were, but into the mold of his vision.
How much will Jeff dirty his hands to achieve his obsessive goal? Will he be able to keep his sanity, or will his dream descend him into madness?
Dreams Written in Madness asks what it means to be human. If our genetics could be drastically changed, our very instincts transformed, and if we would still be human. It is a story of desperation, and how extreme circumstances can harden and twist a person into a monster – or merely bring out their true colors.
Perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, Margaret Atwood and Phillip K. Dick.
Everything this colony built, everything I built, was destroyed in a blink of an eye, but that was during my first life.
Jeff Myers is there, at the end of the world, at the total death of humanity.
Civil war engulfs the streets, buildings burn with an inferno of heat and collapse in a release of shockwaves that ripple through his very bones, and still the battle wages on. Rebels fight against military police, for a cause Jeff cannot understand.
But some areas of the capitol city are not designed to withstand wildfire, and there are the lost nuclear reactors that powered the pioneer’s journey from distant Earth buried somewhere near the city.
Jeff Myers dies with the end of the world and is reborn into a greater horror.
He is brought into his second life by alien creatures he does not understand. Whose manipulations of his body cause him to question if he is still human. He has only a broken man for company.
The colony on this lonely moon must be revived, it must be returned to its former glory, because Jeff knows it was that last place that humankind had survived on. He and Alex are the last humans, and they are also the very first.Humanity must break this cycle of self-destruction; Jeff will make sure of it. Using the tools in this scientist’s hands, he will use genetic manipulation to revive his people, not to who they once were, but into the mold of his vision.
How much will Jeff dirty his hands to achieve his obsessive goal? Will he be able to keep his sanity, or will his dream descend him into madness?
Dreams Written in Madness asks what it means to be human. If our genetics could be drastically changed, our very instincts transformed, and if we would still be human. It is a story of desperation, and how extreme circumstances can harden and twist a person into a monster – or merely bring out their true colors.
Perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, Margaret Atwood and Phillip K. Dick.
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Published December 31, 2021
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About the author
Sarah Mazza
6 books111 followersSarah Mazza is a Melbourne based author of dark, dystopian sci-fi and historical fantasy novels. She grew up on Lord of the Rings. It was Isobelle Carmody’s Obernewtyn Chronicles that inspired her to write her first book, as she put down one after its cliff hanger ending and thought…I could write a book. A deep love of novels with outrageous plot twists and detailed world-building motivates her, and so her influences are George RR. Martin, N.K. Jemisin, Raymond E. Feist and Bernard Cornwell.
Sarah Mazza is a mad scientist, or perhaps just a normal biochemist, and channels these interests and knowledge into her fiction. She has worked with death rays (irradiators for cancer research), mutants (GMO technology) and Breaking Bad style experiments (research cancer drug development). With chemicals that were explosive, radioactive and toxic, and at times her workwear has included gowns of lead, elbow length leather gloves and blast shields. Despite all this, nothing in this industry is quite as eccentric and wild as the sci-fi worlds inside her mind and that which she weaves into her novels.
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Sarah Mazza is a mad scientist, or perhaps just a normal biochemist, and channels these interests and knowledge into her fiction. She has worked with death rays (irradiators for cancer research), mutants (GMO technology) and Breaking Bad style experiments (research cancer drug development). With chemicals that were explosive, radioactive and toxic, and at times her workwear has included gowns of lead, elbow length leather gloves and blast shields. Despite all this, nothing in this industry is quite as eccentric and wild as the sci-fi worlds inside her mind and that which she weaves into her novels.
Website: www.sarahamazza.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/sarah.mazza.author/
Amazon: amazon.com/author/sarahmazza
Newsletter: www.sarahamazza.com/subscribe.htm
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