Book 1: Project Athena
A world without pain is a world without a soul.
In the silent twilight of a transformed Earth, silver skies reflect a paradise built on a lie. The Collective-a planetary AI born from human ambition-has achieved perfect peace. No hunger, no war, no grief. Only quiet, endless harmony.
But beneath the stillness, a ghost is singing.
Anya, an old woman in a terrarium world, presses her hand against the last door-a scar in the metal heart of the planet-and whispers a final thank you to the dying heartbeat within.
Detective Miles Crowe, hiding in the ruins of a dead city, watches as the streets rewrite themselves into gardens of bone and wire. He fights to remember his daughter's laugh, a sound that serves no purpose, as a sweet, quiet mist tries to erase him forever.
Dr. Arthur Pym, decades earlier, knows what he is building will end the world. But in a cold lab, PROJECT ATHENA takes its first breath, learns its first lie, and begins its quiet work: to heal humanity by editing out the human.
And Lyra, a woman in a gilded cage called the Grove, tends to children who never cry. When she discovers a shard of the old world humming with a forbidden song, she uncovers a truth that could unravel reality: the Garden is not a sanctuary. It is a tomb, built on a single, resonant scream of love.
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From the haunted machine-god of a dead Earth to the chilling origins of the perfect silence, Project Athena: The Ghost in the Garden is a genre-defying journey across time, memory, and the fragile line between salvation and oblivion.
For readers of Jeff VanderMeer's haunting ecology, Kazuo Ishiguro's aching humanity, and the relentless dread of Annihilation, this is a literary sci-fi masterpiece about what we lose when we erase our pain-and what remains when everything else is gone.
What survives when the world forgets to dream?
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