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Karma Serene & A Serene World
a duology
Karma Serene
A Novel
Marcus PJ Tucker
A bludgeoned, headless body. Nazi uniforms in the closet. German documents stacked in boxes. In a sweltering West Palm Beach, Florida apartment, a present-day murder opens a portal to the darkest shadows of Europe’s past—tying past to future, where memory is weaponized, history is buried, and Anne Lemmel—a woman who survived the horrors of the Second World War but died shortly after in a psychiatric hospital—is the prime suspect.
Karma Serene (91,000 words), navigates the intersection of history, identity, and technology. It is a speculative science fiction thriller spanning two timelines—1940s Nazi Germany and near-future 2026 America and Europe—where a murder in Florida unravels deep connections between the legacy of war, the construction of memory, and the moral implications of artificial sentience.
In Karma Serene, Anne Lemmel endures the Gestapo and concentration camps, only to be resurrected—not in flesh, but in consciousness—decades later as the world’s first non-biological humanoid.
Karma Serene explores the shadow of totalitarianism—how ideology, power, and war continue to shape lives for generations. As the novel’s Detective Mattie Harmon investigates a present-day murder, she is confronted with the buried connections between Nazism and American immigration, the treatment of Holocaust survivors, and the ethical frontiers of AI. In a world still reckoning with the past, what happens when memory becomes programmable? When is consciousness no longer bound by mortality, but by technology?
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Text copyright © 2025 by Marcus PJ Tucker All rights reserved. Visual images are generated by DALL-E, Coloring Book Hero, or other apps related to ChatGPT.No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.Content Warning:The book contains scenes related to rape, violence, WW2, the Holocaust, profanity, and other topics that might not be suitable for certain audiences. This novel may be harmful and traumatizing to some audiences.