Men have wondered about the end of days since we’ve been sentient enough to understand our own mortality. Early civilisations like the Vikings told of Ragnorok; a fiery war between Gods, the bastions of order and liberty, and the infernal demons of Chaos. Later civilisations and religions had their own ideas, stories akin to those told in Christianity’s book of Revelations. The modern era came, and with it came Hollywood, making money hand over fist selling people more predictions of doom, usually filled with zombies, demons, aliens... and robots. The masses may not have understood how or why many in the scientific community feared the Singularity specifically, preferring simply to enjoy the impressive visual effects, but in the end, they all experienced those awful fantasies first hand.

War. It’s one of the few constants throughout human history, except this time it looked as though it might finally finish us off. By some miracle, brought about by the men and women whom many blamed for the machine uprising in the first place, we persevered. More than that, we won. But some mornings I wake up and wonder whether the alternative had really been so bad compared to this. Mankind has become a retroverted animal, terrified of progress, afraid of repeating the mistakes of the past, and discriminating against those who dare to know better. Once, in a more primitive age, magic and sorcery were things to be accused of that would get you hanged. We left that behind for a while and called ourselves civilised. But we never really shook it off. Now we just have new names for our witches.

Hi, My name is Daniel Sieradzki. I’m an Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Manchester, and at the time of completing the first draft of this book, I’d been writing for just over two years - I’m currently in a lengthy editing process because as a general rule, I can always find things to hate about my own writing. I’m sure many other writers can sympathise with this sentiment.

Currently, nothing in this novel is final.

Chasing Eden is my take on a post apocalyptic world decimated by your standard robot uprising war. Well. To be precise, it’s a post-post apocalyptic world. I wrote Chasing Eden because I wanted to explore the idea that technological advancement one day might progress too far, too soon, and without firm guidelines on what we were exploring. I also wanted to be able to convey my take on what that would do to mankind as a whole, and how those who refused to give up millenia’s worth of human ingenuity would be treated in such a world. If you don’t plan on reading on after this, I’ll let you in on a secret. The answer to that question isn’t a good one.