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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
4642: The Other Line
2Book the First Angles on the Edge of Oblivion
4743: Einstein’s Echo and the Ethics of Teleportation
3Prologue 1: Echoes in the Azure
4844: Library Dust and Grimy Crowns
4Prologue 2: Eyes Open, World Muted
4945: Gold, Gateways, and Global Domination
5Prologue 3: A Zero-Sum Digital Dystopia
5046: The Earthbound Icy Tomb
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6Prologue 4: Death Walking
5147: Setting the Tower’s Foundations
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5248: Beyond the Veil of an Unearthed Temple
85: From Crash Until Dawn
5349: Halfway to Elsewhere
96: Beyond the Conduits
5450: Bringing the Darkness to Light
107: Grease Stains and Eternal Engines
5551: The Haunting Veil Beckons from the Abyss
118: A World on Hold as Shadows Build
5652: Stepping off the Treadmill
129: Under the Stars
5753: A Dreamwalker’s Odyssey
1310: The Engine Awakens
5854: Fractured Memories of a Quaking Abyss
1411: The Price of Loyalty in a Crumbling Empire
5955: Manipulating the Mandala Effect
1512: A Shower of Visions and Dissonance
6056: Dancing with the Devil in the Pale Moonlight
1613: From Boardroom to Rabbit Hole
6157: Back to Basics
1714: Unveiling the Secrets of the Eternal Engine
6258: Mumbai’s Moonlit Mob
1815: The Sisyphean Job Hunt
6359: Golden Towers of Pyrite
1916: The Love-Pat Towards Discovery
6460: Elysium Risen
2017: Liminal Discoveries
65Book The Third Beneath the Falling Sky
2118: Getting Swifty at the Quantum Level
6661: Jilted Tour Guides
22519: The Infinitron Breakthrough
6762: The Sleepers Awaken
2320: Beyond the Silicon Dream Valley
6863: No Sweat
2421: The Infinite Unbounded
6964: Adventures Beyond the Stars
2522: The Crisis on Infinite Circuits
7065: Shadows Beneath the Vatican
2623: Generalized Alchemy Disorder
7166: Stepping Into the Cosmic Unknown
2724: The Maw of the Infernal Abyss
7267: From Atlas Shrugged to The Dispossessed
2825: Shattered Dreams, Broken Metal, and a Glimpse of the Impossible
7368: A Sorhhinda Sunset
29Book the Second Bones Beneath the Crown
7469: The Gardener of Elysium
3026: Triumvirate Apotheosis Unbounded
7570: Cracks in the Monolith
3127: The Shadow Stirs
7671: Stardust Dreams and Earthbound Realities
3228: Code, Creation, and Consequences
7772: Dawn of the Scarlet Tide
3329: Finance, the Final Frontier
7873: Galaxies Within Us
3430: Awakening of the Alpha Ancient
79Book the Fourth The Truth Beneath the Pyre
3531: Tinkering an Algorithmic Heist
8074: Breach of the Dark Side
3632: The Distorted Monarch
8175: Beyond the Firewall: Where Humanity Cages it’s Madness and Fears Unmask
3733: Pandora’s Golden Fools
8276: Expanding Outwards While Falling Inwards
3834: Chronicles of a Forgotten Ruler in a Modern Den
8377: Fractured Dreams of War: The Return of the Oenomancer
3935: Replicating Robots and Reimagining Work
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4036: Risen from Ruins
8578: Echoes of a Fallen God
4137: Nano Genesis Evangelion: Infesting the Future, Atom by Atom
86Liber Infinitum
4238: Summoning the Infernal Executive
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4339: The Self-Made 6 Million Dollar Man
8879: A New Beginning
4440: Breached: The Deathless Mortal Pawn
8980: Epilogue - Echoes of Elysium
4541: From Shrine to Wormhole and Back Again
90About the Author
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