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Daimones
The
Daimones Trilogy,Volume 1
by
Massimo Marino
Genre:
Science Fiction
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Murder,
genocide, the Apocalypse.
Explore
the future of humanity in Massimo Marino's sci-fi debut, Daimones, an
apocalyptic tale that feels like it could happen tomorrow. You may
never sleep through a windstorm again.
Nothing
could have prepared them for the last day. Death swept away the lives
of billions, but spared Dan Amenta and his family, leading them to an
uncertain future. When merely surviving isn't enough and the hunt for
answers begins, memories from the past and troubling encounters lead
Dan to the truth about the extermination of the human race.
Distressing revelations will give new meaning to their very
existence.
Early
humans shaped the future and seeded a plan millions of years in the
making. Now survivors must choose: Endure a future with no past or
fade away into a past with no future?
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My daughter, the wrinkled and dying woman lying in front
of me, was the oldest-looking human on the entire planet. Yet, to the
rest of the world, she was leaving us the youngest, as the new humans
her age looked like they’d just passed puberty.
The med-unit hummed solemnly. Hope felt my presence and
opened her eyes, a tired look but the same as her mother’s, Laura. She didn’t have much hair anymore, and it had long
since lost its ebony beauty. My heart shrunk in pain. How many times
had I watched the people I loved the most leave me? It hurt more each
time; there’s no drill and no training to teach one’s heart how
to bear the loss of another. My heart grew colder and harder with
each death. “Dad.” Hope greeted me with a broken voice. I thought I would have been strong, that the Palladium
made me stronger. How wrong I was. I’d already lost my wife Mary,
and Laura, then my first daughter, Annah, and now Hope’s life was
vanishing before me and I couldn’t do anything about it. With all
my resilience, strength, and inhuman capabilities, there I was...a
broken father watching his little girl dying. What a cruel destiny
the Moîrai had imposed on us Selected. “How are you?” “I’m tired.” She sighed. “But I’m ready.” I took a deep breath and walked up to her. Unable to say
anything, I stepped to her bedside and took that bony hand. She smiled. “Your hand is warm, and I’m so cold...” My eyes looked for the nurse. “I’ll tell the doctors
to raise the temperature.” Hope shook her head. “Inside...” At those words, my eyes filled with tears. “Darling...” “Dad...” she whispered. “I want my bed.” I managed to collect some air and sound calm. “You
won’t last an hour in your bed, sweetie.” “I know.” Hope let go a long sigh. “Would you do
something for me?” “Anything.” I looked at her, eager to do whatever
she needed. My heart hung to her lips and I bent forward. Her eyes mocked me. “I know where I am.” Befuddled, I probed her mind. “How?” I started. “Am I not your daughter?” I blushed. “Hope, I didn’t want you to—” I
glanced down as she squeezed my hand to interrupt me. With an effort, she raised her head. “Shhhh. It’s
okay, Dad. Let everyone watch if they need to, but let me watch
everyone, too.” My voice cracked. “You’ll never be forgotten.” My
eyes held hers. “I love you so much.” “I know, Dad.” Her hand squeezed mine again.
“Please, let me see, let me start the new beginning.” I didn’t know then, but those words put the seed of
revenge in my heart and found fertile ground.
Once
Humans
The
Daimones Trilogy, Volume 2
The
rebirth of the race of man is closely watched, and the Selected, the
transgenic humans created by the Moîrai, guide and care for the
wellbeing of the remaining humans in their various Communities around
the planet.
Peace
and security are suddenly shattered with acts of sabotage disrupting
the fragile equilibrium of the growing society. Betrayal, fear, and a
cosmic conspiracy risk sending the planet to the brink of
self-destruction. Will Dan Amenta be able to come to terms with the
logic of alien minds? Who is behind the sabotage and why?
Death
and blind violence walk in the secret alleys and in the depths of the
planet, from the coldest lands to the bottom of the oceans; someone
is at work with an evil agenda dictated by greed and lust for power.
Ancient aliens, a galactic struggle, the control of a unique
resource, meld to dictate the fate of humankind.
The
Rise of the Phoenix
The
Daimones Trilogy, Volume 3
War
is inevitable, and the human race sets out to finally deliver
retribution.
An
alien colonization has altered the destiny of the human race forever.
After wiping out billions of people, the race known as the Moîrai
created a new, transgenic species of humans called the Selected --
giving them both the gift and burden of longevity and memories of
human history on another world.
The
aliens charged the Selected with the responsibility of caring for
"the spared ones," unaltered humans who survived the global
catastrophe. That includes Dan Amenta's daughter Hope, the only
spared one who remains.
Together,
Dan and Hope have witnessed Earth transform into a different world,
where a powerful new neurological drug sparks the rapid evolution of
the Selected, but Hope is nearing death. Once she's gone, obligations
die with her, and the path is clear for a chain of events destined to
rip apart the foundations of the galaxy.
Booktrope Publishing LCC has published Massimo Marino's works up to June 2016 when Booktrope closed its business. Massimo is member of SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America), and a scientist envisioning science fiction.
He
contributed to the experiments at CERN and The Lawrence Berkeley Lab,
then accepted leading positions at Apple, Inc. and at the World
Economic Forum. He is also co-founder of "Squares on Blue"
-- a Big Data Analytics service company -- and of "BookGarage"
-- a publishing services brokerage firm.
Massimo
currently lives in France and crosses the border with Switzerland
multiple times daily, although he's no smuggler. He went from
smashing particles at the largest accelerators in the world, to
smashing words on the most popular laptop in the world.
The
Meaning of Life
Oh no, not yet another to sell ‘his’
meaning of life... but what about we stop for a second; what gives a
meaning to your life? Many suggest living every day as if it was
going to be the last one. Sure, our priorities would change, but I
find the suggestion has a flaw and might lead some to extreme
choices. After all, if this were your last day, tomorrow would no
more be ‘your’ problem, “who cares then.” What instead if today was the last day
of 99.99% of the population? Then, tomorrow would be ‘your’ big
problem; and the day after tomorrow, and the next one, and the next
one ... What would keep you going? What would
keep you from committing suicide? What values would give meaning to
your life when everybody else is no more? This is the situation faced by Dan
Amenta in “Daimones” Vol.1 of the “Daimones Trilogy.” As many
of us in our societies, we are distracted by ephemeral things; a
promotion, a new car, the latest fashion apparel, whether or not we
wear a Rolex at 40, and we forget what makes our lives meaningful.
What if you had to walk alone in your
city, where every house, every apartment has become a tomb? Would you
feel like Dan? “The window displays were magnificent
as ever, but there was no one to attract anymore. Business shut down
for lack of customers. I had the impression of walking onto a movie
set, all perfectly staged down to the smallest details, yet deserted
as the actors and crew had not arrived. The parallel streets of Rue
du Rhone and Rue du Marché, becoming Rue du Rive further east and
Rue de la Conféderation to the west, made up Geneva’s most famous
shopping area. Designer retail stores and world-famous
watchmakers lined the streets that used to be packed with window
shoppers. The entire district resembled a fashion runway, perfect and
beautiful. The resemblance though was loathsome, as if fashionable
jewels and clothing brands had finally admitted they did not care
whether customers liked them or not. They reclaimed a reason to exist
for themselves, becoming altars and shrines to vanity and vacuity.”
– “Daimones” Vol.1 of the “Daimones Trilogy” If we were to ask children what are the
most important things in their lives, the adults would smile and
think how banal, how trivial those answer are; children know nothing
and need to grow to ‘understand’ what life really is ... Really? Dan discovers what keeps him alive, and
it’s not easy for him to think again as children. It’s those
banal, those trivial, and those precious things that are unrelated to
what life ‘really’ is. Dan discovers what our world is: we
focus on money, career, we show-off our ‘social status’, and we
live to fine tune the image we want to project to the rest of the
world while we couldn’t care less of this last. We’re not looking at what happens
around us, we lack empathy; we live already in a spiritual
apocalypse. Our world, though, tells us we have a spiritual-death
apocalypse already in place.
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The “Daimones Trilogy” explores the
apocalypse and its consequences: the physical death of humankind, the
rebirth of the society, dystopian or utopian, and the moral and
ethical tensions of the survivors.
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