The Venus Project

by Ilker Korkutlar

Her father was frozen when Derin Kaplan was six years old. A lot has changed in the world since then. The financial markets crashed when the quantum computer his father built intervened. Biological weapons killed almost all people. Derin and her mother survived and live in a female-only community in a building that rises like a platform above the sea. The year is 2044 and the cryogenic engineer Derin is working day and night to bring her father back to life. When he comes back, he will be three years older than her, but what does that change? He is still her father. She remembers his face from old videos, she set his voice as the voice of her personal robot. She misses him. Her mother asks her to think through this matter. Still, Derin is used to hearing all this. She is determined to do so. She manages to freeze and thaw one of the hamsters she's experimenting with, and one is still dead. There must be a difference in this process, she can't find it. She should ask AI, Quantus. Only she can help her. She won't give up, even if bringing her father back means that two of the women who have applied for a baby will be turned down. The system is very different. Unanimity voting is required, not the majority. She has to give a nice speech and convince the other women to bring her father back. However, when her own life is threatened by artificial intelligence, like other women, Derin begins to question everything she thought she knew until then and goes to see what is the object that appears and disappears in the sky. And the answers she finds will show her how all humanity came to earth and how they should live from now on.
fiction; subgenre; end of civilization; existential; catastrophe; nuclear warfare; pandemic; extraterrestrial attack; impact event; cybernetic revolt; technological; singularity; dysgenics; supernatural; phenomena; divine; judgment; climate change; resource depletion; psychology; artificial; intelligence; Anunnaki; Sumerian; Egyptian

417 pages, Paperback

Published February 22, 2022

About the author

Ilker Korkutlar, author of The Venus Project, was born in Turkey. He studied finance at the Dokuz Eylul University and had an MBA in University of Brighton, UK. He began writing his debut novel after obsessing over The Venus Project and futurist Jacque Fresco. When he’s not writing, he can be found wandering through book stores or journaling at a coffee shop. Ilker is notorious among his friends for always being surprised by twist endings to books/movies. His cat, Numnum, prefers to support his indoor hobbies, like reading and drinking too much coffee.