Eplsine

After a technological catastrophe, a new human society called the Bastion is born in the ruins of a metropolis. There is no sex — bodies are born in an incubator. Instead of names, there are numbers, each of which represents a unique set of characteristics and tastes. Every fourth day, the political regime randomly changes to a new one. The eternal and immortal leader — Zero — oversees the proper functioning of the system. The Bastion lives in a state of siege concerning the City and the monsters that inhabit it. The system is self-sufficient, but incursions into the City still occur. On one hand, the novel is a classic example of a blend of dystopian and post-apocalyptic genres. On the other, it is a rethinking of a well-known biblical plot and resembles an apocryphal work in genre. At the heart of the plot is the question: why did the Biblical God allow the fall of Adam and Eve? The novel models the reverse situation — eating not from the Tree of Knowledge, but from the Tree of Life, and not by Eve, but by Adam. A monstrous mistake arises, capable of destroying the new human species at the dawn of Creation. But will the Creator Himself allow this?