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Bastards of Babylon I: The Scarlet Woman

Book 1 in the Bastards of Babylon series

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Pub Date Mar 30 2026 | Archive Date Oct 24 2026


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The world is no longer ruled by nations.

In the near future, governments have been replaced by corporations, laboratories, and invisible elites who administer humanity through a global project known as the New Babylon.

Aitor Amez refuses the life designed for him—and runs.

Ainoa Amez is transformed into something else entirely: a global sports icon, her body engineered, trained, and displayed as a symbol of power.

Seamus Callahan, a detective in a dying profession, begins investigating a series of disappearances that the system cannot explain… or control.

Damien Winslow believes the world order can survive only as long as everything remains manageable.

But when a secret society begins to undermine that order—not to rule it, but to dissolve it—the fragile balance of power starts to fracture.

Technology, faith, and ancient ritual collide in a conspiracy that reaches far beyond politics.

At the centre of it all stands a figure destined to embody change… and a will that refuses to disappear.

Bastards of Babylon I: The Scarlet Woman is a dark cyberpunk dystopia about control, identity, and the cost of surviving in a world that has already decided who you are.

Because when every faction claims to be saving humanity,

the real question is:

what remains of the human?


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The world is no longer ruled by nations.

In the near future, governments have been replaced by corporations, laboratories, and invisible elites who administer humanity through a global project known...


A Note From the Publisher

Bastards of Babylon I: The Scarlet Woman is a dark cyberpunk dystopian thriller blending political intrigue, occultism, technological horror and cosmic dread. Set in a fractured 22nd-century world, it combines dense worldbuilding, multiple perspectives and an underground occult conspiracy involving ancient secrets and artificial intelligence.

The novel may appeal to readers of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, H. P. Lovecraft, Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, particularly those drawn to dystopian societies, conspiracies, occult themes and genre-bending speculative fiction.

Bastards of Babylon I: The Scarlet Woman is a dark cyberpunk dystopian thriller blending political intrigue, occultism, technological horror and cosmic dread. Set in a fractured 22nd-century world...


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ISBN 9798250943338
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PAGES 588

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