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Children Of The Baobab
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 28 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Children of the Baobab is a mythic science-fiction novel about memory, grief, and the terrible cost of refusing to let go.
In a world where death has been solved, a vast living system called the Baobab records every life, preserving all beings forever through perfect remembrance. Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. And nothing is allowed to leave.
Born unable to merge with the collective memory, a woman known only as the Hollowborn lives at the edge of paradise-awake in a world designed to dissolve individuality. When she gives birth to a child that exists outside the system's control, she exposes the hidden truth beneath Eden's beauty: this is not salvation. It is containment.
As the archive begins to fail and the god-machine's origins are revealed, the Hollowborn descends beneath the world's living roots to uncover a buried human past-one built not from divinity, but from fear of abandonment. What she finds forces a final reckoning: whether memory is love, or merely another way to imprison it.
Blending literary science fiction with mythic symbolism, Children of the Baobab explores what it means to survive loss without erasing it, and whether life can remain sacred if it is never allowed to end.
This is not a story about rebellion.
It is a story about teaching a god how to grieve.
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