Elysium Accumbens

By Jackson Kisling

Elysium Accumbens is part space opera, part murder mystery, part love letter to role- playing games, and part philosophical treatise on the nature and utility of pleasure. The novel follows a spaceship on a forty-two-year mission to colonize another solar system. Its crew are fourteen disembodied brains in tanks, wired together to live in a virtual reality bound only by their imagination. Amidst an unravelling mystery and heated arguments over how they will build a civilization from scratch, the characters contemplate what it means to build a meaningful and productive life when one can instantly realize any desire or whim with almost no consequences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1837947422
• ISBN13: 9781837947423
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Vanguard Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"