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2026
A Serene World
A Novel
Marcus PJ Tucker
Ten thousand years in the future, Mattie—a historian with a Gen Z bite—lives in a civilization that exists entirely within simulations. When her mentor and lover vanishes, she follows him into the one realm her kind left behind: the physical past.
Using a quantum device, Mattie is propelled through a historical odyssey: from the final days of Hypatia’s Alexandria in 415 CE, to the paranoia of the 1590s witch trials in Trier, and finally into the haunted psyche of a survivor of the Sonderbau (prisoner brothel) in Dachau. As Mattie’s sense of self splinters across these eras, she must confront the ultimate question: what is real when memory can be manufactured?
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.