The Spark of Evolution - Couverture souple

Wierzbicki, Andrzej

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798235436039

Editeur : Andrzej Wierzbicki, 2026

Synopsis

Torak has always seen what others miss.

In a world ruled by hunger, violence, and the authority of the strongest, survival depends on obedience. Every person has a place. Every custom has a purpose. Every challenge to the old ways carries a price.

But Torak cannot stop asking why.

When he discovers a new way to catch fish, he does more than help feed his people. He threatens the balance of power that has held the clan together for generations. What begins as a simple invention soon becomes something far more dangerous: proof that the rules governing their lives are not the only rules possible.

As hunger deepens and rival groups enter the valley, Torak is forced to confront enemies within his own clan and beyond it. His ideas can save lives, but they can also become weapons. Each new solution brings consequences he cannot fully predict, and every attempt to prevent violence risks creating another form of control.

Beneath the valley, something ancient is waiting.

It does not speak, command, or explain its purpose. It watches human choices, responds to patterns, and recognizes something in Torak that even he does not yet understand. At the center of its mystery lies an unfinished circle-a symbol that will survive long after his name has been forgotten.

To protect his people, Torak must discover the difference between leadership and domination, unity and obedience, peace and forced silence. His greatest challenge will not be defeating an enemy. It will be learning how to leave room for another voice.

The Spark of Evolution is a sweeping prehistoric speculative novel about the birth of cooperation, the struggle against inherited violence, and the first fragile idea that society can be built on something more than fear.

It is the opening volume of The Open Circle, a five-book saga following one evolving idea across human history-from the first tribal communities, through the Middle Ages, the Age of Discovery, and the Industrial Revolution, to a technological future in which artificial intelligence may awaken something humanity began thousands of years earlier.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Andrzej Wierzbicki
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235436039
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 362
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Allemagne