In the year 2168, peace has a price: memory.
Across the vast continent of Eurasia, the Eurasia Corporation governs every aspect of life with quiet efficiency. History has been erased. Culture is curated. Stability is maintained through technology, obedience, and carefully engineered social order. To most citizens, it is a perfect world.
When astrophysics student Mylen and her classmates are sent to investigate a crashed spacecraft in the remote agricultural Zone B, they expect a routine academic assignment. Instead, they uncover something impossible: a hidden hatch leading deep beneath the farmland into a forgotten underground world buried since the collapse of the old Union.
Inside the bunker lies evidence of a past deliberately erased from human memory and a man who was never meant to wake again.
As long-suppressed truths begin resurfacing, Mylen and the group find themselves hunted by a system built not on freedom, but on controlled forgetting. Guided by the enigmatic engineer Rufus MacDowell, they uncover the terrifying reality behind Eurasia's rulers: the Overlords, an isolated elite who have shaped civilisation from the shadows for over a century.
But bringing down a perfect system may unleash chaos far worse than tyranny.
As the foundations of Eurasia begin to crack, the group must decide whether humanity deserves the burden of truth and whether freedom can survive without becoming destruction itself.
The Rise of Eurasia is a philosophical dystopian science-fiction novel about memory, power, identity, and the dangerous comfort of forgetting.
About the Author :
Marie MacFarlane is a British author of speculative and literary fiction whose work blends emotional storytelling with dystopian themes, mythology, dark humour, and deeply human characters. Her novels often explore grief, identity, resilience, forgiveness, and the fragile connections that endure even in the darkest circumstances.
Inspired by history, philosophy, music, and the complexity of human nature, she writes stories that balance cinematic atmospheres with intimate emotional journeys. Her debut novel, Dawn of Ages, introduced readers to a dystopian future shaped by authoritarian power and forgotten history, while The Journey explores the soul's passage through death, healing, and redemption against the backdrop of a war-torn world.
Marie's writing is known for its blend of realism and surrealism, where moments of absurd humour can exist alongside tragedy, tenderness, and existential reflection.
When she is not writing, she enjoys researching history and world cultures, listening to music that inspires new scenes, and developing future stories filled with flawed, unforgettable characters.
