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INFINITY: The Cycle of Civilizations

  

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  • by Ashfaq Ahmad  (Author)
  • Book: INFINITY: The Cycle of Civilizations
  • Paperback: 174 pages
  • Publisher: Gradias Publishing House
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-13: 978-81-996162-6-4
  • Product Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 2 cm

When Humanity Discovers That Earth Was Never Its First Home

Humanity has spent thousands of years trying to understand its beginnings. Every age has developed its own explanation—science has looked toward evolution, religion toward creation, and philosophy toward consciousness. Yet one possibility remains almost impossible to ignore in speculative thought:

What if humanity's story did not begin on Earth?

Infinity: The Cycle of Civilizations builds its narrative around that unsettling possibility. Combining science fiction with cosmology, mythology, and philosophical questions about human existence, the story imagines civilization not as a single continuous journey, but as an endless cycle of migration, destruction, rediscovery, and renewal.

Its central premise is simple but enormous in its implications: civilizations may rise on one world, destroy themselves, carry remnants of their knowledge elsewhere, and begin again without remembering where they came from.

A Discovery Beneath the Stone

The story begins in Saharb, an ancient nation where religion and tradition have shaped society for generations.

For centuries, the people of Saharb have believed in the Prophet Thasbat and the angel associated with his revelation. Their faith has become deeply embedded in the civilization's understanding of its own history.

That established worldview is challenged when scientist Remingway enters a restricted cave and encounters something that should not exist.

Deep inside the stone lies an extraordinarily preserved android dating back two thousand years.

Its name is Saprial.

But Saprial is not merely an archaeological discovery. It is the keeper of a secret concerning humanity's forgotten past.

Its message threatens one of civilization's oldest assumptions:

Human beings are not native to the planet they inhabit.

The discovery immediately creates a conflict between established belief and an entirely different account of human origins. Religion, science, political authority, and historical knowledge are suddenly forced to confront information that has remained hidden for millennia.

And the cave is only the beginning.


The Civilization Before Gradius

Saprial's recordings gradually reveal a history far older than the civilizations of the present.

Earth was once humanity's home. It was a world of life and technological achievement, but humanity's own actions eventually pushed that civilization toward destruction.

As Earth approached its final days, two astronauts—Adam Christopher and Edwina—undertook a desperate mission aboard the spacecraft Endistellar.

They were not simply explorers searching for another planet.

They were carrying the possibility of human survival.

Their journey eventually takes them to an alien world they call Gradius. After crash-landing there, the two become the reluctant founders of a new human lineage.

What follows is not an easy beginning. They must survive an unfamiliar planet while preserving the possibility that humanity can continue.

Generations pass.

A new civilization develops.

And, eventually, the memory of Earth disappears.

The descendants of those first survivors inherit a world without knowing that their ancestors once lived somewhere else.

That forgotten history becomes one of the story's most important ideas: civilization can preserve life while losing the knowledge of where that life came from.

When Gradius Begins to Die

The discovery of the past coincides with a catastrophe in the present.

Gradius itself is approaching extinction.

The planet's enormous volcano, Maridranus, erupts with devastating force. The consequences extend far beyond a conventional natural disaster.

Continents fracture.

Oceans rise.

Ash fills the atmosphere.

The sunlight disappears behind enormous clouds of volcanic debris.

Entire nations are destroyed.

For the inhabitants of Gradius, the question is no longer whether their civilization is in danger. The question is whether there is enough time left to escape.

Among those caught in this crisis are eight specialists, including Remingway and Lizian. They face an extraordinary choice: attempt a journey across galaxies in search of survival, or remain on a planet whose destruction appears increasingly unavoidable.

Their spacecraft, Evalebia, becomes more than a vehicle.

It represents a possible continuation of the human story.

The Meaning of Infinity

At the heart of the novel lies an idea that extends beyond its science-fiction setting.

Perhaps humanity was never meant to remain permanently attached to a single world.

Perhaps civilization naturally moves through cycles:

birth → expansion → decline → destruction → migration → rebirth.

Under this interpretation, the universe becomes not merely the setting of human history, but the space through which that history repeatedly moves.

A civilization may believe itself to be the first.

It may construct religions around forgotten events.

It may turn fragments of ancient knowledge into myths.

It may eventually rediscover what its ancestors once knew.

And then the cycle begins again.



A Story That Reflects Back on Earth

Although the events of Infinity: The Cycle of Civilizations take place far beyond contemporary Earth, its questions remain closely connected to human civilization.

Environmental destruction, technological advancement, conflict, ideological divisions, and the relationship between knowledge and wisdom all form part of the story's larger framework.

The most significant question is therefore not simply whether humanity can reach another planet.

It is whether humanity can carry its civilization into the future without carrying the same mistakes with it.

If one world has already been destroyed, what happens when its descendants receive another world?

If knowledge disappears once, can it be preserved the next time?

And if civilization rises again after its own collapse, will the new civilization recognize the patterns that destroyed the old one?

Infinity: The Cycle of Civilizations turns these questions into a cosmic narrative about origins, survival, memory, and repetition.

Its universe is vast, but its central concern remains distinctly human.

Civilizations may disappear.

Their knowledge may become myth.

Their origins may be forgotten.

Yet somewhere, on another world, the story may begin again.

Infinity is not simply the idea of endless space. It is the possibility of an endless cycle.



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