War - Paperback

by Eliza Sulea (Author)

Europa has always known a lullaby. She is the only citizen in Pangaea Ultima named in the wrong language. But she has always had her lullaby.

Inside the sealed Domes - five enclosed cities on a future supercontinent - every human is grown in a Creation Tube until age thirteen, medicated hourly with a drug called Baltu, and forbidden from forming personal bonds. They may not speak certain words and never speak of the Nords. Unfortunately, for her, Europa emerged wrong: created without the innate sacred language every citizen carries, and cursed with eyes that mark her as different in a society that punishes difference. Her only ally is Wardum, a future Sovereign who has spent years secretly teaching her the language she was never given. Their bond - unnamed, unsanctioned - is the closest thing either has to love in a world that has quite literally erased the word.

When a vision reveals green beyond the dome walls, Europa engineers her own exile. She is paraded through the streets, forced to watch footage of a previous exile burning alive, and pushed through an airlock designed to suffocate her into stepping out.

She steps out. The air is clean. The ground is green. The wasteland is a lie.

What she finds on the other side will rewrite everything she knows - about the Domes, about her own origins, and about the people she left behind.

War is the first book in a character-driven literary science fiction duology set on a far-future supercontinent inspired by real geological projections of Pangaea Ultima. Drawing on Sumerian and Akkadian mythology, it builds a world where language itself is a tool of power, the oldest words carry the deepest secrets, and the bonds we form in silence may be the only things worth fighting for.