A story-line that once seemed so separate, is by the end, intertwined in ways you could never expect.Īs you can tell, the story is not one lacking in complexity, however, the complex world is the most outstanding aspect of this novel. They are looking for a way to fix the effects of this civilization ending calamity, and their search leads them to Jericho. In a separate story-line, survivors of a cataclysmic disaster are scavenging and trying to piece together answers. Little things are off in Caligatha, the only place Lydia has ever known, and she soon realizes something is wrong, in this town, and in her head, and she has to figure out what it is.

However, the world and their life is not what it seems.

He begins to have feelings for her, and they hit it off. Then Jericho meets a women named Lydia, and his life slowly begins to change, as does hers. His only friend is his cruel drug dealer, Reuben, but even the word friend is a stretch. As the story begins, he is both managing and living in an unexceptional, yet decent hotel in a town called Caligatha. Since then, Jericho has become depressed and dependent on drugs to escape reality. The prototype, however, didn't work as planned and his wife and unborn child died. His pregnant wife died, and Jericho blames himself for it she was sick with an illness which was killing her, and Jericho tested one of his creations on her, a prototype of a synthetic immune system, designed to cure diseases and illnesses of the user. The story is focused on a brilliant scientist, Jericho, as he tries desperately to relive his past, one that was painfully taken away from him. But human drives and motives remain unchanged at their best-and at their most terrifying.Ĭaligatha is a hard book to explain, it is one that is more complex than your average novel but also one that is more meaningful and understandable than others. The evidence they find brings them all together in a shocking conclusion.Ī thrilling exploration of the dark fringes of a derailed-singularity world: nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence alter the rules of human existence. Meanwhile, in another timeline, survivors of the worldwide plague attempt to understand how it all went wrong, and survive in a near-future wasteland of high technology and chaos.

When the two meet and form a rocky relationship, they start to suspect something is not quite right about their reality. Jericho, a brilliant scientist riddled with guilt, attempts to recreate his deceased wife and child, only to wind up in a drug-fueled haze in Caligatha.

Lydia has lived her entire life in Caligatha, a quaint coastal resort that seems blissfully unaware the world has been destroyed. What if there was no such thing as death or disease? What if every dream could come true? Would it be a human utopia?

Caligatha by Matt Spire