Genesis Block

About this book

In 2038, the world is rich in computation and starving for children. Global civilization is administered by The Cathedral, a techno-bureaucratic elite that has perfected the art of managed decline: frictionless careers, algorithmic companionship, and a culture so optimized for the individual that the future itself has become an unfashionable inconvenience. Vittorio 'Iter' Moretti—an exiled bio-accelerationist, elite shitposter, and professional thorn in the Cathedral's side—has spent years hiding his civilizational dread behind crude irony and tactical jackets in Milan's gray-market underbelly. His wife Alessia 'Genesis' Valli, a crypto-esotericist running cognitive and physical enhancement protocols well past safety margins, is his anchor and co-conspirator. When Vittorio stumbles onto evidence that the global fertility collapse is not an accident of modernity but something engineered, his trolling stops being a hobby and becomes a war. And when Alessia discovers she is pregnant—a statistical near-impossibility in their world—the stakes stop being ideological. Armed with contraband AI models, home-brew mRNA synthesis rigs, a defecting Cathedral biostatistician, and a floating network-state of outlaw midwives and gene-hackers, Vittorio and Alessia race to protect their unborn child and smuggle a biological and memetic counterweapon to the world—before Director Julian Sterling's demographic management division erases them, their data, and the very idea that humanity should continue. A hyper-kinetic biopunk thriller about espionage, dark internet absurdity, fatherhood, and the unbearable weight of legacy.