by SECDEF_Nice
From Infinity to Adam began with a question I asked myself in 2013: What would the Bible look like if it were science fiction? At the time, I had been watching Ancient Aliens. I never went particularly far down that rabbit hole, but one episode mentioned apocryphal texts—particularly the Book of Enoch. So I looked it up. Watchers. Giants. Nephilim. Humans transcending through dreams into another realm, interacting with beings from beyond their world, and returning with knowledge they were never supposed to possess. Read through a modern lens, some of it sounded less like magic and mysticism and more like someone trying very hard to explain technology they did not understand. That idea sat in my head for years. Along with a few others. All the world’s a stage. All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again. The wheel keeps turning. He doesn’t know about second breakfast. Eventually those thoughts became From Infinity to Adam. This is the first book in a planned series about an ancient civilization, its people, and the very long consequences of their inability to leave well enough alone. It mixes religion—including apocryphal and excluded traditions—with mythology, conspiracy theories, secret societies, monsters, world history, popular culture, movies, television, music, and science fiction. Not by saying all of those things are literally true. More that they might have started somewhere. In this universe, sufficiently advanced technology does not merely resemble magic. Given enough time, it becomes religion. The series also looks toward a future that no longer feels particularly distant: artificial intelligence, robotics, simulated realities, engineered bodies, extreme longevity, space travel, terraforming, virtual existence, and the possibility that death itself may eventually become negotiable. What happens to people when technology removes the limits that shaped human civilization? What happens when nobody has to die? What happens when reality itself can be manufactured? And what happens when boredom becomes one of the most dangerous forces in existence? The story explores those questions through satire, but it is not fundamentally a comedy. It is about identity, morality, memory, power, religion, entertainment, and the strange things intelligent beings convince themselves are normal after they have been alive far too long. There are gods. There are monsters. There are ancient conspiracies. There are simulations. There are worlds inside worlds. There are people who have lived long enough to forget which life they are currently living. And, unfortunately for everyone involved, there are dwarves. A lot of dwarves. Most people in our world are unaware that nearly every religion, legend, novel, movie, television series, and ridiculous story humanity has ever told was once real. Or mostly real. Or sort of real. Details get lost. Stories change. Civilizations forget. The important thing is that inspiration has to come from somewhere. Just remember: Dwarves enjoy leaving clues. They are cheeky fuckers like that. Finding the clues is harmless. Understanding them may not be.
