Creed

by Anna Kavanaugh

It is the seventh generation from the onset of dependence on genetically altered inorganics and they bear the ramifications of the time following the polar flux. From their inheritance of greed, a turn to desperation. An insidious and compounding crisis reveals itself within the sealed walls of the Geneto-Hazard Centers and its patients. One hope remains to find salvation.

The Executive Commission of Regeneration Sciences & Survival has initiated the Credence Missions, the launch of twelve seeker probes in what some believe is a futile search for an uncharted System bearing compatible organics. All probes are lost, as is hope, until Credence 7 makes a startling reappearance... transmitting panacean data from what are impossible coordinates.

A reluctant and misled search crew is assembled and sent to retrieve the last probe, but fail. Alteration extinction will now be the final chapter of man. With no sign of the probe at its last known coordinates, the crew is thrust into unconsciousness to inexplicably awaken in the pristine and magnified wonders of an Earth-like world, foreign to their experience.

They meet Gudren, a peculiar and mysterious figure who seems intent on offering the crew solace and transformation. This is contradictory to the distortion of reality and imposed events they must endure in this world.

An attempt to negotiate a harvest of organics is refused by one called the Guardian. This provokes an irony of consequence for humankind. The final sequence of events leaves the story with a paradoxical and dumbfounding reality.

Hardcover

First published January 15, 2012