Maya – serie

Den unga psykiatridoktoranden Dominique Vazquez ska göra sin AT-tjänstgöring på ett mentalsjukhus. Som studieobjekt tilldelas hon Michael Gabriel, diagnostiserad som paranoid schizofren och isolerad sedan elva år tillbaka. Mick, som är både högintelligent och charmig, använder all sin övertalningsförmåga till att övertyga Dominique om att hon måste hjälpa honom att rymma. Michaels far, arkeologen Julius Gabriel, har ägnat sitt liv åt att studera mayaindianernas 2500 år gamla kalender, som förutspår att mänskligheten ska gå under den 21 december 2012. Alla tecken pekar på att indianstammen har rätt. Men Michael tror att hans far har varit på väg att lösa gåtan före sin död, och måste nu ut från mentalsjukhuset för att avsluta det hans far påbörjat.

Blending science fiction, fantasy, and philosophy, MAYA: Seed Takes Root is a new mythology for the 21st century—not of gods and monsters, but of us. For readers of Children of Time, Dune, and An Immense World. The Divya Trials have been announced. Billions will compete. One will ascend to godhood. On the planet Neh, the living forest called Maya is the planet’s neural network. Each citizen tethers daily to Maya, entering shared dreamscapes for work, play, and learning. The immortal Divyas harvest the data. Every thought and memory; predicting futures and bending reality itself. Everyone is connected. Everyone is tracked. Everyone is controlled. Everyone except Yachay. An ordinary nineteen-year-old manushya raised in isolation by his ailing grandfather, Daddu, Yachay has never tethered to Maya—making him invisible to the gods of data. Daddu urges him to enter the upcoming Divya Trials, a once-in-a-lifetime competition where billions compete for immortality and omnipotence. Yachay wants no part of it—until his grandfather’s death uncovers an ancient resistance and a lifetime of secret training. MAYA: Seed Takes Root, the first novel in the expansive MAYA universe, fuses science fiction, fantasy, and philosophy into an epic of thrilling adventure and urgent allegory. Drawing on South Asian mythology, hard science, and sharp social commentary, it asks the questions that define our time: Who controls our stories? Who profits from our data? And in an age of perfect prediction; is freedom still possible?