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About this audiobook
What if your dreams could build the future...and destroy it?
A nameless tech visionary unlocks the Eternal Engine: a force stolen from dreams that can bend matter, power civilization, and rewrite existence. Overnight, humanity transcends limitation: endless energy, instant replication, interstellar travel. A new age of wonder… or something far darker.
Then come The Pointers.
Silent figures appearing across the world, motionless and unnerving, each one pointing skyward. Their arrival fractures belief, sparks chaos, and signals that the boundaries between waking and dreaming have begun to tear.
Blending the cerebral twists of Inception, the irreverent wit of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and the creeping dread of Insidious, Elysium Rising is a haunting sci-fi epic about ambition, madness, and the quiet horror of getting everything you ever wanted.
Are you ready to wake up?
2025 International Impact Award Winner
2025 Penmasters Global Fiction Award Finalist
2025 Cygnus Short List
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Horror
Length21 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Book the First Angles on the Edge of Oblivion
3Prologue 1: Echoes in the Azure
4Prologue 2: Eyes Open, World Muted
5Prologue 3: A Zero-Sum Digital Dystopia
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6Prologue 4: Death Walking
7iv
85: From Crash Until Dawn
96: Beyond the Conduits
107: Grease Stains and Eternal Engines
118: A World on Hold as Shadows Build
129: Under the Stars
1310: The Engine Awakens
1411: The Price of Loyalty in a Crumbling Empire
1512: A Shower of Visions and Dissonance
1613: From Boardroom to Rabbit Hole
1714: Unveiling the Secrets of the Eternal Engine
1815: The Sisyphean Job Hunt
1916: The Love-Pat Towards Discovery
2017: Liminal Discoveries
2118: Getting Swifty at the Quantum Level
22519: The Infinitron Breakthrough
2320: Beyond the Silicon Dream Valley
2421: The Infinite Unbounded
2522: The Crisis on Infinite Circuits
2623: Generalized Alchemy Disorder
2724: The Maw of the Infernal Abyss
2825: Shattered Dreams, Broken Metal, and a Glimpse of the Impossible
29Book the Second Bones Beneath the Crown
3026: Triumvirate Apotheosis Unbounded
3127: The Shadow Stirs
3228: Code, Creation, and Consequences
3329: Finance, the Final Frontier
3430: Awakening of the Alpha Ancient
3531: Tinkering an Algorithmic Heist
3632: The Distorted Monarch
3733: Pandora’s Golden Fools
3834: Chronicles of a Forgotten Ruler in a Modern Den
3935: Replicating Robots and Reimagining Work
4036: Risen from Ruins
4137: Nano Genesis Evangelion: Infesting the Future, Atom by Atom
4238: Summoning the Infernal Executive
4339: The Self-Made 6 Million Dollar Man
4440: Breached: The Deathless Mortal Pawn
4541: From Shrine to Wormhole and Back Again
4642: The Other Line
4743: Einstein’s Echo and the Ethics of Teleportation
4844: Library Dust and Grimy Crowns
4945: Gold, Gateways, and Global Domination
5046: The Earthbound Icy Tomb
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