Projects Category: Novels

Death Industry

A revolutionary invention by Dr. Ambrose has changed the country. His quantum computer can determine the exact date of everyone’s death. This date is written on people’s birth/death certificates and classifies them according to their life spans. Those who die before the age of 20 (little travelers) are separated from their families from birth and kept in isolated towns to protect the parents from the pain of losing a child. Others are allowed to live in the cities but their death dates determine the services they receive from the government. Those who die under 30 won’t be accepted in universities and therefore can only apply for low payment labor jobs. On the other hand, full life citizens can have it all! A new religion has formed to ease the life of people and give more clarification and a sense of judgment and equality to people. The priests of Ambrose Temple have infused and corrupted the government and have power over the people. The Ambrose temple has also constructed a new calendar based on the Ambrose processor. The year is 221 when the story begins.

Rain Born

Rain Born takes place many years in the future. After a natural apocalypse, the world is drowned in water and people live on the ships and islands. They have constructed a new religion and a set of rules and have based their political, cultural and economical structure on these beliefs. But these beliefs do not bring prosperity for people. Instead they have made them into victims of the vicious religious leaders who always seek more power and more wealth. It is the people who have to pay for the greed of their leaders by fighting in a war that is based on a lie.

Although people are struggling between their faith and survival, drowned in the complexities of their self-constructed and controlling rules and values, nature is taking its course. Evolution is seeking to select the new, evolved babies that seem to be more compatible with the new water world.

Tirad is one of the disciples that teach the religious Narratives of the Saviour—the man who was the founding symbol of the post-rain world. He is a keen and dedicated follower and a true believer who has decided to ignore the corruption signs and waiver the possibility that his religion is based on no true facts. But in a turbulent path set forth to him by the Saviour Circle, he faces many challenges that shake his rock-hard beliefs; it is a journey of love, loss and fate that changes his destiny.

Humanoid

Set in a near future after a revolution in stem cells technology, people are literally immortal. They can reproduce and replace their organs and never die from organ failures and fatal diseases. Every 40 years people can choose their professions according to what they like and their performances during their last 40 years of work. They also choose their own names according to their professions. The main character Atwood is a writer who is nearly finishing his 40 years of work as a fiction writer. But his brain cells were tempered and replaced and she has lost some parts of her memory. This is a bad sign that shows she was not a compliant citizen. She tries to find why this surgery was performed on her. But as she starts her quest, the main nuclear plants that supported the power for stem cells banks, explode in a shocking accident. She senses that her memory surgery and the explosions are somehow linked…

The Covering Dust

The Covering Dust takes place in the Elamite era, three thousand years ago; the pre-Iranian civilization centered in the far West and Southwest of what is now modern-day Iran. At the time when inner family marriage was common and the Shatens (monks) ruled over people’s day to day life and cast their shadows on their after-lives. The Gods and Goddesses were considered powerful influences on the acts of men and women and they were the only source of truth and justice. 

Haltash, the young son of a passed farmer is madly in love with the girl whom his father took into his care after her father and brothers died at sea. But Haltash’s father does not allow them to marry; he wants Haltash to marry his sister instead. Haltash claims that his father withdrew his will at his death bed. It is now word against word. Haltash’s sister will not do against her father’s will and takes up her claim to the temple of the Sun God (Nahunte) in Susa. Haltash is called in by the court which takes place with the presence of Shatens and the great judge of Susa. The court is not able to decide who is telling the truth. Therefore they entrust the sentence on to Shazi, the goddess of justice, afterlife and the rivers. Haltash is thrown in to the river to come face to face with Shazi. If he comes out alive then he is telling the truth and his sister shall be punished for lying in the court. And if he has lied he shall drown in the river ruled by the goddess of justice. 

Haltash escapes death in the river, even though he had actually lied in the court. He struggles on what to do; whether to go back and have her sister punished by the temple or to run away. He finally decides to go and find her lover and to secretly escape with her to another country. But the return journey is not as easy as he expects. After long hours of walking and climbing the arid mountains, he still does not find his way back. In his most hopeless moment he sees light, a mountain side lit by fires coming out of the soil. He is drawn to the fires of Tashkooh where he meets an old man whom he later discovers is immortal. The Old Man tells him his dreadful life story and how the magical soil of Tashkooh can make people immortal. He agrees to help Haltash find his way back to his lover under only one condition: should he return to him, he will have to help him die. And there is only one way that he could kill an immortal.

Pine Dead

A country that has lost many men in a long war comes up with an idea to increase the population. They secretly fertilize the women to give birth to twins and triplets. Women give birth to a lot of babies and the population increase gets out of hand. The new generation is overcrowded with so little facilities. The schools become overcrowded; there is not enough food, medicine and sanitation. This generation is brought up in difficult circumstances. When they become the young adults starting to rule the country, they revolt against the past government and change it through a coup. The first thing they do is to neutralize everyone so they cannot reproduce and have babies. Then they organize people in groups of eight consisting of four couples. Each family is given a baby to nurture. The babies are made synthetically by incubators and carry the mixed genes of their eight parents. 

After sometime, the population decreases. Now the new generation is left with a heavy work load and many old people to take care of. The new generation rebels again. This time by spreading a virus that is meant to slowly kill the old parents. The virus is designed to suddenly kill by withering the body. Therefore people fall dead like a pine cone falling off a tree. The virus spreads out of hand, killing the whole population and spreading further to other countries, taking over the world.

There seems to be no hope but a vaccine that is not yet sure to be effective. The whole human race is about to vanish. All Governments provide people with special pens and notebooks and asks them to write down whatever they can so that their life stories may remain as the sign of an intelligent race gone for good. The notebooks and other valuable things are to be sealed in time capsules.

The novel is read through three stories written by three characters in their notebooks, each representing one of the mentioned generations and explaining the events from their perspective. Also the readers travel along with Mahoor, an old man who immediately leaves town to find help. He seeks help from people who had not accepted becoming part of an eight parent family and had escaped many years ago. Through his thrilling journey the readers learn about the past life of the people in the story and the past city…

Year of the Tree

Year of the Tree is an intertwined story of the downfall of three generations of three Iranian families who undergo many losses, fears and doubts. It’s the bitter story of people longing to find happiness and peace, people who fight against destiny for their faith, love, wealth and families. 

From the book:

“The sound of footsteps in the courtyard distracted her for a moment. She dropped the kerosene lamp. Before it hit the ground and smashed into a thousand pieces, the kerosene spilled onto the short, open collar of her floral poplin dress, trailing right over her gold necklace, down the buttons over her stomach and down her midi skirt, leaving a wet, cool feeling on her skin. As soon as Pooran realized what was happening, the lamp hit the ground and she was suddenly in the arms of the burning flames of the angry lover that she had always yearned for.”