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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)
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Evil Under A Twilight Star
Under the waning violet sky of Kessler 8927, a rocky planet, in the Delphi system, 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. It is the age of twilight stars, when truth fractures and power comes wrapped in silence. Survivors walk among ruins, layering order over entropy, science over myth. But rot coils behind the columns of planetary sanctums, and the stars whisper of reckoning.
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TBA
TBA
Reality as a Multi-Dimensional Causational Field
Reality as a Multi‑Dimensional Causational Field presents an integrative ontology that reconsiders reality as an open, participatory field shaped by structure, meaning, agency, and consciousness. Drawing on physics, metaphysics, information theory, and civilizational analysis, John R. Carlos argues that consciousness is not a passive by‑product of matter but an active participant in the actualization of possibility. Extending this framework from the individual to civilizational scales, the book shows how shared meaning and moral coherence function as genuine causal forces, ultimately grounding human freedom in the very structure of reality itself.
1.1 The Central Question
Few questions have endured across the history of human thought as persistently as the inquiry, What is reality? From Plato’s ideal forms to the probabilistic frameworks of modern quantum mechanics, thinkers have wrestled with whether reality is a mind‑independent structure or a phenomenon inseparable from consciousness. The long arc of philosophical and scientific reflection reveals a tension between two intuitions: that reality exists “out there,” independent of us, and that reality is somehow shaped, mediated, or even brought forth through perception and participation.
2.1 Introduction
Any attempt to understand reality must confront the intertwined legacies of philosophy and science. Classical physics once offered a universe governed by strict determinism, a cosmos whose future could be predicted with absolute precision given sufficient information. The advent of quantum mechanics destabilised that vision, introducing uncertainty, probability, and the unsettling implication that observation may play a constitutive role in physical events. Meanwhile, cosmology situates existence within a dynamic, expanding universe shaped by entropy and deep temporal asymmetries.
3.1 Introduction
The preceding chapters exposed a persistent gap: while physics offers robust accounts of structure and causation, it does not capture subjective experience or the participatory character of knowing. This chapter develops the Multi‑Dimensional Causational Model, which integrates physical, metaphysical, and temporal dimensions, underpinned by a quantum substrate and mediated by a reality interface layer. The model aims to show how structure and participation are not rivals but complements within a single ontological field.
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