The World He Once Knew

Jay has been uploaded into a new body to investigate why the transporter ship Candlemass went dark fourteen days ago. After the ship's owner gives him the rundown of the assignment, he's quickly ushered on board.

In the halls of the derelict vessel, Jay discovers black sludge coating the inner hull, leading him to a container in the Cargo Bay.

If only he could have stopped there.

As Jay digs further, he's thrown into a psychological maelstrom of the ship's and, more importantly, his own history and what led him to be uploaded in the first place.

The World He Once Knew is a transcendental, sci-fi horror novel set in the distant future. Here, the deceased's consciousness can be bought and uploaded and forced into labor. They can't quit, even if their new lives make them wish they were dead again.

©2024, 2025 Fedowar Press (P)2025 Micah Castle

sci-fi horror

what a great riveting book.

a detective gets revived into a husk, and in the future far from the life he knew.
he is asked to do a job, and that's it, he is going to do it.
so you follow Jay as he tries to find out what happened on the space ship.
a good story with a bit of action and a bit of mystery. the book knew what it wanted to do and did just that.

the narrator is good, and does different voices (accents) well, though some of the story telling felt like someone reading from a newspaper which was slightly off putting initially.