Uluru (The Price of the Stars #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 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 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 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 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.