Ascendents

 

Science just proved the afterlife is real. The catch? Your genes determine if you’re invited.

Today is pub day for a debut that asks what happens when the most powerful force in the world isn’t money or weapons. It’s who gets to exist after death.

Happy pub day to Ascendants by Don Schechter! 

It’s 2060, and the world has been split in two, not by war or politics, but by a scientific discovery that changes everything. An afterlife exists, but only for those with the right genetic marker. If you’re an Ascendant, transcendence awaits. If you’re a Biomass? Oblivion. And a powerful organization called the Jacobs Institute controls all of it.

This debut techno-thriller follows three characters pulled into the Institute’s web: a scientist who helped build this world, a grieving husband desperate to follow his wife into the afterlife, and a young woman fighting to survive in a society that has decided she doesn’t matter. It’s a story about what happens when science, faith, and power get tangled together in the worst possible ways.

If you’re a fan of Black Mirror or dystopian thrillers that make you think, this one is worth a look. Thank you PR by the Book and  GFB for gifted ARC! 

QOTD: If science could prove the afterlife was real but access was limited, who do you think would control it?

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About the Author

Don Schechter is an entrepreneur, filmmaker, writer, and Professor of the Practice at Tufts University. Ascendants is his first novel and part of a larger sci-fi project that includes a short film anthology. He’s the founder and CEO of Charles River Media, co-host of the science fiction podcast No Win Scenario, and a lifelong student of speculative storytelling.