Uluru: the Price of the Stars – Book 1

A forbidden molecule.
A cure that could end disease—and end humanity’s will to live.
Or open the gate to the stars.
In the red heart of the Australian desert, an aging geneticist uncovers a substance modern science has never seen.
Wounds close in hours. Cells reverse their aging. Terminal illness vanishes.
A miracle worth billions. But the molecule hides two secrets.
The first is quiet and insidious: those who take it lose the will to act. Desire fades. Ambition dissolves. Hope becomes unnecessary. A seductive, perfect calm settles in—one so complete it kills slowly. Aboriginal shamans knew this substance long ago. They banned it for a reason.
The second secret is more disturbing still: in rare individuals, the molecule splits the mind from the body. The flesh remains in stasis. Consciousness slips away—beyond Earth, beyond Mars—into a hidden network of quantum currents, vast highways linking the stars.
As corporations, labs, and shadow networks race to control the substance, one truth emerges: if it spreads at scale, progress stops. Production halts. Expansion ends. History freezes.
Uluru is a grounded, adult science-fiction techno-thriller about the most dangerous exploration of all: not the conquest of space, but the moment humanity must decide whether it still wants a future worth reaching for.
First volume of a The Price of the Stars Trilogy.
A major independent science-fiction success in Europe in 2025.