The Second Invention: We didn't lose our minds. We lost the ability to create them
Release Date: Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
Pages: 261 pages
In 'The Second Invention' by Daniel Smith, a reclusive neuro-linguist discovers a fragment of lost cognition in a world that has forgotten how to think, setting off a chain of events that could unravel reality itself.
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The Second Invention is a mind-bending speculative sci-fi thriller.
Seventeen years ago, the world stopped thinking.
After the Quiet Collapse erased humanity’s ability to form original ideas, society settled into a numb, peaceful stagnation. Art became simulation. Innovation became replication. And no one remembered what it meant to imagine.
Dr. Corin Elvan, a brilliant but reclusive neuro-linguist, has uncovered a buried fragment of forbidden cognition — a flicker of authentic thought embedded in the brain’s forgotten layers. But reviving it won’t just disrupt the world’s fragile balance. It may tear reality apart.
Hunted by the authoritarian Continuity Office and drawn into the dark corners of pre-collapse memory vaults, Corin teams up with a rogue memory engineer to reconstruct the architecture of human thought. But the more they awaken, the more unstable everything becomes.
Because some ideas were never meant to be remembered.
Seventeen years ago, the world stopped thinking.
After the Quiet Collapse erased humanity’s ability to form original ideas, society settled into a numb, peaceful stagnation. Art became simulation. Innovation became replication. And no one remembered what it meant to imagine.
Dr. Corin Elvan, a brilliant but reclusive neuro-linguist, has uncovered a buried fragment of forbidden cognition — a flicker of authentic thought embedded in the brain’s forgotten layers. But reviving it won’t just disrupt the world’s fragile balance. It may tear reality apart.
Hunted by the authoritarian Continuity Office and drawn into the dark corners of pre-collapse memory vaults, Corin teams up with a rogue memory engineer to reconstruct the architecture of human thought. But the more they awaken, the more unstable everything becomes.
Because some ideas were never meant to be remembered.