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By John R. Carlos
Cryonic Dreams: Awakening
In the year 2169, a Cryonicist, Dr. Michelle Brown in the Epsilon complex of Gemini City reanimates a one hundred-and thirty-three-year-old dead woman using a groundbreaking cryogenics procedure. The subject, Maryanne, who wakes with no memory of her past, becomes the catalyst for a series of suspicious events, including the attempted sabotage of Dr Brown's work and the disappearance of her boss. Deciding to investigate, Dr Brown becomes entangled in a web of conspiracy and finds herself the prime suspect of a murder. Quickly realizing that someone wants Maryanne's story concealed, Dr Brown and her new allies have no choice but to seek answers by looking into Maryanne's past but after AASID, the remnants of a sinister global order, conduct a coup of Gemini City, they are forced to escape to Mars, where Maryanne had last travelled. Will they survive and learn the truth.
Release date: 31 July 2025
“Finding a path, I stepped into the brush, only to be grabbed from behind. I stiffened, instantly knowing I’d been lured into a trap. My mind fogged over, locking me in place. But only for a second, and then I remembered. I am no victim. The reflex of my experience exploded from the recesses of my mind, infusing my muscles with the strength and knowledge they’d briefly forgotten. I threw my elbow backwards before his grip had me, making him drop his guard, and giving me time to reach up and twist his hand so I could spin out from between his grasping arms. Pulling his wrist up in the twist, I wrenched to one side and violently brought my foot up in a kick to his head. The thud I’d heard many times before satisfying, even more so when he fell backwards, unbalanced and disorientated. I went in to knock him to the floor, but seeing me come at him, he stabled himself and adopted a fighting pose, causing me to rethink my move.”
For the second time, the body snapped upward, everyone in the room recoiling away from the incisive response. The intensity of the moment, so critical, it had caught them all off guard.
The following pause was the longest yet, waiting for Holi’s confirmation. Then . . .
“Electro-cardio signal detected—repeat—heart pulse present. . . . Subject, Maryanne Kendricks, deceased 17 Nov 2036. Procedure – Cryonic Reanimation, vital signs; heart rate, 55 beats per minute, blood pressure, 90 over 50, respiration, shallow. Date of Rebirth, 19 Apr 2169.”
No response, nothing. Just a long pause. It was in my face, the smell of its electricals and lubricants oppressive in my nose, like the smell of rotting flesh. I dared not breathe too deeply for fear I would upturn the already curdled contents of my stomach. Its hover above my head was so close I could make out the manufacturers branding, SOLaR Systems. The SOL system’s biggest and most powerful corporation, trading in the management and distribution of Stellar Operations, Logistics and Robotics. Its owner was the richest man in the system, Brandon Phillips.
Cryonic Dreams: When Mars Breaks
Cryonic Dreams – Part Two: When Mars Breaks, thrusts Michelle, Maryanne, and Jaxxon into the fractured Martian frontier, where off-world resistance collides with cryonic secrets buried beneath red soil. As old alliances fray and GRInd signals resurface, Mars becomes more than a refuge—it becomes the proving ground for legacy resurrection, synthetic memory, and the ethics of survival. What breaks on Mars isn’t just infrastructure. It’s identity. (to be released fourth quarter 2026)
The facility, officially listed as abandoned, was located at Erebus Montes, some 70 km from the original main colony and landing site at SX Prime, within the Arcadia Planitia, which had, more recently, also been abandoned due to the threat of unstable soils and rising water levels. The closest sizeable population centre was some 4000km away in Arcadia city, on the shores of Elysium Mons, so this was to be our planetfall.
Travelling at maximum elevation, the unusual colours of the slowly rising Martian waters was strikingly evident against the backdrop of its classically recognised reddened landscape. Coming to life for the first time in a billion years, the new Martian waters varied wildly in colour as their paths merged, forming patterns that were alien to this world. The converging swirls ran from deep blues to vivid purples and were speckled with turquois greens to deep and dirty browns from the leeching minerals.
The coordinates would lead us to one of the larger islands in the group and by the time we were near enough, the sun was low in the sky. The light from the now rapidly approaching Martian sunset, after penetrating the thickening atmosphere, set the new ocean ablaze, its fiery glitter dancing splendidly amongst the numerous near group of islands, the remnants of the Erebus Montes. Similarly to the Phlegra ranges, the new sea had begun to claim the region. For the Erebus ranges however, they would unfortunately be swallowed completely, long before the Phlegras would be in any real danger.
Cryonic Dreams: Martian Revelations
Cryonic Dreams – Part Three: Martian Revelations unfolds as Michelle and Maryanne return to a broken Earth, where tyranny has reshaped medicine into murder and memory into control. With the cure to TMVid48 in hand and revelations of synthetic torture surfacing, they confront AASID’s overseers and battle soulless enforcers—robots and minds trapped in artificial vessels. To reclaim humanity is not just to heal the virus, but to restore choice, dismantle engineered eternity, and remember what was stolen. Maryanne is no longer an anomaly—she is the key. (to be released fourth quarter 2028)
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Evil Under A Twilight Star
Evil Under A Twilight Star - Under the waning violet sky of Caldrexa-9, a fractured civilization trembles on the edge of revelation. Long buried beneath the glittering spires of the Old Temple District and the storm-swept arcologies of the Southern Reach, ancient forces stir—alien, indifferent, and waiting.
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