Ready for literary agent submission
2026
A Serene World & Karma Serene
a duology
A Serene World
A Novel
Marcus PJ Tucker
Matilda is Gen Z—only 10,000 years in the future—a rising academic in A Serene World, a matriarchal post-human civilization existing as pure consciousness.
In a world streamed thought to thought, with biosuits available when embodiment is desired, Matilda lectures on human civilization, navigates virtual cafés at night, and spars with her maternal AI assistant—confidante, protector, and advisor—who may be hiding far more than she lets on.
Though fluent in the past she teaches, Matilda is unprepared when her mentor and secret lover, the enigmatic Professor Jude Loew, vanishes without a trace. Her search for him pulls her into real history—the kind she’s only ever simulated.
To find him, Matilda travels through time, co-inhabiting the minds of women at pivotal, often traumatic moments in history. Using a volatile quantum device powered by a Dyson grid, she steps into the lives of Hypatia in ancient Alexandria, a witch trial victim in 1590s Germany, a Jewish girl in a WWII concentration camp, and Uma, the scientist who sparked the SERENE revolution.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Text copyright © 2025 by Marcus PJ Tucker All rights reserved. Visual images are generated by DALL-E. All written content, and prose are my own, created without the use of any Large Language Models (LLMs).No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.