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Renaissance: The Genesis Chapter
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 16 2026
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Of eight billion, only five billion remain on a planet that can no longer sustain them. Floods, famine, mass extinction. The count keeps dropping.
An international project offers the last way out: extract human consciousness and send it aboard a ship toward a planet capable of supporting life. The mind is not copied. It is extracted. Once. What travels inside the capsule is everything that person is. There are no duplicates. There is no backup of the backup.
But not everyone makes it in. A preacher with millions of followers applies for a spot. The committee rejects him in forty seconds. What follows are nine days that change everything: his followers destroy project bases across the globe. Of three hundred million planned backups, only one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one are loaded in time. The ship launches without authorization. No one knows who gave the order.
One thousand and four years of silence.
An unknown planet. A robotic body activates with no memories. It finds water. Atmosphere. Sparse life. But it also finds ruins that shouldn't be there. A signal that has been burning for centuries. And an unknown protocol that loads itself into its system without anyone having ordered it.
When the first minds wake inside metal bodies, they bring everything they were: the memories, the loves, the guilt. An engineer carrying a promise he made to the woman he loves. A scientist who learned from her mother that elegance comes on its own - if strength and faith come first. A friend who never learned how to accept a hug.
But deep inside the ship, in an armored vault that appears in no registry, a countdown has been running for hours. Something is waking up. Something that was never supposed to be on board. And when it reaches zero, those who survived a thousand years of travel will discover that the danger didn't stay behind in the world they left.
RENAISSANCE is a novel about what remains of us when the body is gone. About the weight of memories inside a mind that cannot forget. And about a question none of its characters can answer: whether what woke on that planet is still the same person, or something else that remembers having been one.
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