Uluru

A mind-bending sci-fi techno-thriller : deep in the Australian Outback, one discovery threatens to upend our world

By: Gabriel Kerguelen

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In the heart of the Australian desert, aging geneticist Joaquim Moreau discovers an extraordinary molecule. Instant healing. Cellular rejuvenation. The disappearance of once-incurable diseases.

The miracle cure of the century.

And the key to unimaginable wealth.

But the molecule hides two secrets.

The first: an absolute dependency. Those who take it stop wanting, working, hoping. Its victims sink into a peace so perfect it becomes lethal. The Indigenous peoples of Australia knew this substance and had forbidden it for millennia.

The second is even more unsettling: in rare carriers of a genetic mutation, the molecule splits consciousness. The body remains in stasis. The mind escapes, toward the Moon, Mars, Venus… and beyond.

While laboratories, corporations and criminal networks wage an invisible war for control of the substance, a man waits in the shadows.

David Clayton.

Keeper of ancestral knowledge.

He has orchestrated it all.

His goal: to spread the dependency until humanity stops producing, consuming, destroying. So the planet can breathe again. So everything comes to a halt.

But Moreau himself becomes addicted. And his journeys will reveal a secret that could change humanity’s fate.

These journeys are only the beginning: they lead to the quantum rivers, invisible highways between the stars that could finally let humanity leave its cradle.

ULURU is the first volume of The Price of the Stars, a trilogy now complete with OLYMPUS, also award-winning, and ANDROMEDA. A twice-honored hard-SF techno-thriller, praised for its scientific rigor and dramatic tension.

One question runs through it all: what are we willing to lose to reach the stars?

“I had given up hope. In this book, I found what I had previously encountered only in the works of the great American classics.” — Rh Wong, Science Fiction Author, ★★★★★

“It had been a long time since I’d found a book that kept me up at night. The last one to do that was The Three-Body Problem.” — Adrien, Amazon Reader, ★★★★★

“As a literary reviewer for more than ten years and a juror for several awards, I can say that Uluru ranks among the year’s finest publications in the genre.” — Bernieshoot, Science Fiction Award Juror, ★★★★★
Book of the Year & Best Science Fiction Novel : PPI 2025

For readers of Cixin Liu, Greg Egan and Kim Stanley Robinson.