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2026
A Serene World
A Novel
Marcus PJ Tucker
Mattie—a Serene with a Gen Z bite—is a historian ten thousand years in the future, in a civilization that has transcended physical form and exists entirely within simulations.
When her mentor and lover, Professor Jude Loew, disappears, she follows him into the last realm her kind left behind.
A quantum device propels Mattie into Hypatia’s Alexandria, the witch trials of 1590s Germany, and the haunted psyche of Anne Lemmel—a survivor of Dachau’s brothels.
As her sense of self fractures, she must confront the ultimate question:
Who is she—and what is real?
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.