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Brad Tollefson

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Brad Tollefson writes at the seam of investigative nonfiction and speculative science, following how power, media, and origin stories shape what people are allowed to notice. His work grows out of reporting on data monopolies and a long fascination with Mesopotamian source texts, genetic control, and the strange places consciousness research meets street-level culture. He is drawn to live rooms, microphones, and arguments that refuse to stay in one genre. He lives and writes in the United States, chasing the next unfiltered hour.

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The Eden Sequence

The Eden Sequence

Ancient genes, a live microphone, and the night humanity wakes up

  • Science Fiction
  • Thriller

The red On-Air light is humming in a London studio when Unfiltered Horizon goes live. An investigative journalist who has spent years chasing AI data monopolies sits across from Sloan Vance, a rival digital reporter with a secret identity as a guerrilla street artist. Their subject is not the news cycle. It is the oldest labor dispute on Earth. Drawing on Mesopotamian records, they reconstruct how the Anunnaki bioengineered Adamu in the House of Shimti to break a worker revolt, then locked the species with a worship instinct, fused chromosome 2, and capped telomeres so lives would reset at 120 years. Eden becomes E-DIN, a walled agricultural lab. The serpent is Enki, who handed Adam and Eve the forbidden software of free will. As fear-based stories crack, so-called junk DNA begins to stir. This is not a prison-break tale. It is a broadcast about an engineered sleep ending in real time, and about what happens when the listeners realize they were never livestock.