A Sci-Fi Trilogy

The Towers of Elysium

by Stephen A. Salaka
What if reality was just the first layer of the trap?

Part cosmic horror, part love story, part existential joke told by a universe that might be laughing at all of us. Across three novels, follow Stephen — a man, a god, a prisoner, a dreamer — as he builds a future, loses everything, and fights to remember why any of it mattered.

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Book 1 of 3
What if your dreams could build the future… and destroy it?

Elysium Rising

★★★★½ 4.7/5
International Impact Award Winner Penmasters Fiction Finalist Cygnus Short List

A nameless tech visionary unlocks the Eternal Engine, a force stolen from dreams that bends matter and rewrites existence. Humanity transcends overnight. Then come The Pointers — silent figures pointing skyward, signaling that something older than thought itself has awakened.

Sci-Fi Cosmic Horror 21h 44m audiobook
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Book 2 of 3
A brutal kick to the head… and suddenly, you remember dying a thousand times.

Elysium Fallen

★★★★★ 5.0/5
AutoCrit Novel90 Finalist

Sixteen-year-old Stephen’s reality shatters, flooding him with memories of a dying old man and a forgotten cosmic war. His world is a prison. His abusive father is a mask for the god who built it. To break the cycle, he must reclaim a name he doesn’t remember and confront the divine jailer.

Horror Sci-Fi 13h 40m audiobook
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Book 3 of 3
Two years unemployed. A wife who feels scripted. And a reality that’s starting to glitch.

Escape from Elysium

★★★★★ 5.0/5

Stephen’s life blurs into a ‘Groundhog Hell’ of rejection letters and cold coffee. When an impossible message breaks through, he learns his reality is Etheris — a cosmic prison he helped build to contain a soul-devouring entity. Now the prison is failing, and the shepherd will be unleashed upon all of creation.

Horror Sci-Fi 14h 3m audiobook
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Reading Order
1
Elysium Rising
2
Elysium Fallen
3
Escape from Elysium
This isn’t a series about saving the world. It’s about realizing the world was never yours to save.
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Every Story but Your Own
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Every Story but Your Own

You wake up alone on a bench in Tok, Alaska. A silver suitcase. No memories. No name. 24 strangers will tell you their stories. None of them are yours.