I have rewritten this novel to make it even more readable.
Here’s a Review!
4.0 out of 5 stars Thumping, fast-paced warning for humanity.
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2025
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New Eden gets straight to the point. Set sometime in the relatively near future on a disastrously over-populated Earth. How would you address the problem of worsening pollution, ever-scarcer resources, disease, oligarchic war, and the shrinking quality of life? Reduce the population size? In this fast-paced, thumping read, the writer tells the story of one possible scenario. It’s an easy and entertaining read that does not pull punches. People die, and mostly horribly. Yet, to my mind, it’s not a mere horror novel. It’s practically a philosophical treatise, and a glimpse into the psychology of how far some humans will go to achieve ideological ends. Some may find the subject matter a little harrowing. However, all is not macabre melancholy–there is hope in the most unlikely of places. That resides in the book’s title–New Eden. I read the book in one go, and I rarely achieve this. It’s clear the author did his research which adds legitimacy to the science. Such is the perceived accuracy of the technical details, the novel almost feels like a documentary account of what happened. And you are there as a witness. I would have liked the novel to be longer to allow further fleshing out of the final narrative. All in all, a thrilling and scary outline of where humanity is heading.
They engineered extinction. The children inherited the Earth.
A genetically tailored virus was meant to cleanse the world. It did. Now, in the ruins of civilisation, a handful of children—immune, innocent, and marked by difference—tend gardens, sing songs, and carry the last flicker of humanity.
As the final survivors fall, one scientist must decide whether to save what remains or vanish with the old world. What blooms in the dome is not just survival—it’s something new.
New Eden is a haunting, redemptive tale of catastrophe and compassion, where the end of one world becomes the fragile beginning of another.
Sounds so interesting!
I enjoyed writing it! I thought it was a very valid idea!