Simulacra: And Sons

by Kevin Davies

Theia was a gift—another world, hidden behind the sun, full of wonder and waiting to be discovered. But awe gave way to greed, and profit eclipsed purpose.

And Sons follows Rowan, a boy sent to Theia with eyes full of hope, only to be tethered to a system that sees people as numbers and worlds as paydays. As corporations strip Theia for profit, Rowan descends—not just into darkness, but into the heart of human nature when humanity is removed.

A story of lost innocence, algorithmic control, and the rebellion of remembering what it means to feel.

A speculative dive into corporate dominance, digital dehumanisation, and the quiet defiance of one soul who refuses to become data.

294 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 24, 2025

About the author

Born and raised in London, Kevin Davies studied at Oxford University and moved to the U.S. in 1987 after earning his PhD in genetics. He endured two years at the bench before seeking refuge in the editorial office of Nature magazine. He was the founding editor of the journal Nature Genetics and has also worked at Cell Press and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is currently the editor of Bio-IT World magazine, based in Boston.

The $1,000 Genome is Kevin's third book, and second for the Free Press. He published Cracking the Genome, about the race for the Human Genome Project, in 2000. His first book, Breakthrough, co-authored with Michael White, was about the race to identify the "breast cancer gene" in the mid-'90s.