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The vaccine worked. That was the problem.

When a global pandemic swept the world in 2020, the coalition that raced to save humanity also broke something no one was watching for - and spent the next fifty years making sure no one found out. By the time Sienna, raised in hiding by a woman who was never quite her mother, starts dreaming in code she doesn't understand, the machinery built to manage the truth is running out of road.

Humanity Lost follows Sienna, Cassandra, Renn, and a scattered resistance across three continents and two generations, from the mountain relay stations where the truth was first buried to the archive that could finally set it free - while the people who built the cover-up fight to keep the world from remembering what it cost them.

This edition combines all three novels of the Genesis Trilogy - The Long Pause, The Fertile Few, and The Year of Return - into one continuous story, exactly as it was meant to be read.

For readers of speculative fiction that treats its science seriously and its human cost even more seriously - a story about what gets sacrificed in the name of saving everyone, and what it takes, decades later, to call it what it was.

Edward C. Distel writes fiction shaped by memory, exile, war, and the quiet lives history often forgets. Raised in a multilingual household and deeply influenced by the immigrant experience, his work explores loyalty, identity, survival, and the stories people carry in silence.

Drawn to both novels and short fiction, Distel believes the most powerful stories are often the most intimate. His writing blends literary realism with psychological depth, creating characters marked as much by what they cannot say as by what they do.

He prefers to let his characters speak for themselves.

These are his first published works, though far from his only stories.