Elysium Rising

By Stephen A Salaka PhD

What if your dreams could build the future...and destroy it?

A nameless tech visionary unlocks the Eternal Engine: a force stolen from dreams that can bend matter, power civilization, and rewrite existence. Overnight, humanity transcends limitation: endless energy, instant replication, interstellar travel. A new age of wonder... or something far darker.

Then come The Pointers.
Silent figures appearing across the world, motionless and unnerving, each one pointing skyward. Their arrival fractures belief, sparks chaos, and signals that the boundaries between waking and dreaming have begun to tear.

And through those tears, something else stirs.

An intelligence older than thought itself.
Drawn to the Engine's pulse, feeding on the very idea of progress.

Now, as worlds collapse and realities bleed together, the dreamer who built the future must confront what he's unleashed. Genius becomes torment. Creation turns to ruin. And the question that remains is no longer how far we can go... but how much of us will survive the leap.

Blending the cerebral twists of Inception, the irreverent wit of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the creeping dread of Insidious, Elysium Rising is a haunting sci-fi epic about ambition, madness, and the quiet horror of getting everything you ever wanted.

2025 International Impact Award Winner
2025 Penmasters Global Fiction Award Finalist
2025 Cygnus Short List

Are you ready to wake up?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DVT9N4NQ
• ISBN13: 9798300815912
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 566 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"