Time changes, man changes, time changes man.
blood spills once again in the streets of post war Cloistergrad as a young man takes his first steps off the kerb of here and now into a new reality. Set in the near future in the dark dictatorship of Burndegard’s Permia, in the city of Cloistergrad somewhere in modern eastern Europe. A mad doctor’s plans for state domination rests in the body of a man with no memory, but little does he know that once you let the Jinni out of the bottle it is impossible to get it back in again. As the man he has kidnapped and infected with his mutating virus is now ripping their world apart on his journey to become the Gaia.

As this virus spreads, mutating everyone it touches into their own personal-nightmare image, the mighty and the weak alike struggle for survival. The secret police play their bloody games to rest power from their leader, The universe plays it’s hand in the form of the Being Scorpio who guides our protagonist Peter Elworth and his fellow refugees through the labyrinth of the inner-mind and the universe beyond.

With a host of characters and multiple converging threads, transformations, dirty politics and a car chase this story bounds along with a relentless energy right up to the climatic finish.

Gene Jinni a Monstrosa story.

In the realms of miracles, some men look to the heavens and petition their Gods with sweet words, some place a hand in a pocket to clutch a charm or kiss a beloved totem, but Peter… Peter just closed his eyes and looked inward. To the twinkling neutrinos of the void, reading the truth of the universe in its pattern, as they pinged off his internal detector. 


'Scorpio, Scorpio, are you there?’ he asked into the ether, as a world resolved itself around him. 


'Remember this place?’ Scorpio asked him from across a Formica tabletop. 


'Feels like a long time ago now.’ Peter replied as he took in the room around him, sure that all the people that had first occupied the Café de la Changé were, once again, all here. 'It isn’t...’ Peter began, only to be cut off by Scorpio’s flat retort. 


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