World Wide 2034

Which question keeps you up?

Every book in the trilogy begins with a question nobody is paid to ask out loud. Pick yours.

One family · Twelve years · Three fights

One logic. Three faces.

The trilogy follows one family through three fights, each over something a human being cannot live without.

Behind none of them stands a devil. What they face is a logic, the kind that makes scarcity profitable and dependence convenient. Bring down one face and it finds another.

EnergyBook One. It sells you warmth, a ration at a time, and calls it safety.
The tableBook Two. It sells you what goes into your mouth, then sells you the cure.
The mindBook Three. It reaches for the last thing you own: the way you see.

CNTRL. You're in control.

The same brand glows on every screen in all three books. First it reads your face and your feed. Then it sells what goes on your table. Then it reaches for the words in your head.

They killed a man.They never touched the idea.It only changed faces.

The books

Read them in order. Each book stands on its own, but the trilogy is one story, and the last line of every book opens the next.

Book one · Energy

A memory card marked 1899. A blueprint that was never built.

Stockholm, New Year's Eve 2032. The sky is projected, the fireworks are the same as last year, and CNTRL reads Maya Chen's face at every door while her eyes pay at every counter — until the day they don't. Then a stranger from Oslo whispers that there is still a way out, and places a memory card in her hand: blueprints for energy that could have been free for the whole world more than a hundred years ago. A cookie tin, a brick of a phone, a silent Volvo, a line across the sea — and a village by Vyborg where something is being built that cannot be switched off.

One ping is a mistake. Three pings is a road.

Stockholm · Vyborg · The world
2032 → 2035
Thriller · Action · Love

Also in Swedish: World Wide 2034

Book two · Food & medicine

The Poisoned Tables

The human, or the profit?

2036. A hundred and fifty patients come in from the zones in one month, and every one of them carries the same chemistry in their blood. Isabella is eighteen and has taken eleven medicines a day since she was eight. A lawyer is building the biggest case in history, and her witnesses are an AI that sees a pattern in forty-seven countries at once and a girl who refuses to let a machine smooth her words. Then someone decides the broadcast must never go out — and starts with the man who planned it.

A pure machine is dangerous. Not because it's evil. Because it can count a child without ever knowing it's a child.

Echo-Stockholm · Vyborg · The Alps
2036 → 2037
Thriller · Courtroom · Family

Also in Swedish: De förgiftade borden

Book three · Consciousness

The Inheritance

They thought they silenced a voice. They created an inheritance.

Mars, 2044. Day −177. A girl of seven with the body of a seventeen-year-old is reading her own DNA when the ground shakes on a planet that hasn't moved in millions of years. Young Maya carries two minds — her own and her grandmother's — and the living proof that what they called incurable can be healed. With Vincent, an old man who sees patterns no one else can, she travels home to Earth: to India, where four thousand years of knowledge are waiting to meet the newest. In his breast pocket a pair of glasses keeps vibrating. Somewhere, ten chairs around a table are counting down.

That's how a truth survives — not in a book, not in a machine, but in the next person who chooses to carry it on.

Mars · Texas · Delhi
2044
Thriller · Science · Legacy

Also in Swedish: Arvet

Fact & fiction

What is a docuthriller?

A thriller you read for the story. A documentary you keep thinking about after the story is over.

Invented

Every person, zone and village in the trilogy is made up, and so is every plot. Where a real company, product or place appears, it is part of the setting; its role in the story is imagined.

The year is the future, and no one in these pages is a portrait of someone you could name.

Not invented

The mechanisms are. None of them needs a conspiracy, only an incentive:

energy priced as scarcity, when it does not have to be
food built from what is cheapest to make and ship
a system that earns more from treating than from healing
a score that decides where you may go, and what you may say
a voice that writes your messages for you — and slowly chooses your words

The thriller shows how it feels. The documentary shows how it works. Read the story — then look up from the page and test it against your own ordinary Tuesday.

The world

2032 → 2044

Twelve years, two planets, one family. A map of the road, without the twists.

2032Book one
Stockholm · Zone 7 · New Year's Eve
A projected sky, an alcohol ration, a microphone in the collar, lenses that never switch off. The same golden rain as last year, and a stranger who remembers what came before.
2033
The old harbor
A memory card, a year written on it in thin pen — 1899 — and a blueprint no one has ever officially explained.
2033
The way out
A cookie tin, a brick of a phone, a silent Volvo, a boat called the Magdalena, and a line across the sea.
2033 →
The village by Vyborg
Copper towers catching the dawn. Energy no one can bill for, and no one can switch off — until they try.
2036Book two
Echo-Stockholm · The care center
A hundred and fifty patients, the same chemistry in every body, and a lawyer who works only on paper.
2036
Eight billion judges
A broadcast that reaches every screen at once, and a summit high in the Alps where someone has to decide what can still be denied.
2044Book three
Mars · Stargate colony
Thorium warmth, domes of glass, and a planet that hasn't moved in millions of years — until it does.
2044
Delhi
Four thousand years of knowledge, a conference, a market, and a countdown that started a hundred and seventy-seven days earlier.

The people

Who carries the story

Ordinary people, at the moment they stop doing what the system expects. No spoilers beyond the first chapters.

Book one →

Maya Chen

Zone 7, Stockholm. Fourteen months in debt, a son she hasn't seen in as long, and the first to ask where it all leads.

The whole trilogy

Erik Nordström

Engineer from Zone 3, Oslo. Builds what he needs out of what everyone else threw away — and never says a name on air.

The whole trilogy

Alexander

Maya's son. Nineteen and on the other side of the city when it begins. The one who has to carry what his mother started.

Book two

Petra

Environmental lawyer. Grew up at the kitchen table of someone who beat a giant with evidence. A last name is an address, she says, and an address is a risk.

Books two & three

Isabella

The one who never gets well. Ten years of what was sold to her as care, a body that keeps the receipts — and a voice no machine is allowed to smooth.

Books two & three

Vincent

The man who saw patterns. Belongs to no tribe — not left, not right, not for, not against. Which is exactly why he can see.

Book three

Young Maya

Seven years old, a teenager's body, and two minds behind her eyes. Depth first. Always depth first.

For the screen

Written to be seen

The trilogy was written with the screen in mind: short scenes, cross-cut storylines, clear locations and time stamps, a countdown, and a story arc that moves across three seasons in twelve years.

For producers, agents and rights inquiries — film, series or translation — get in touch directly.

Rights & screen inquiries

1World Wide 2034The escape. Energy, zones, and a village that should not exist.
2The Poisoned TablesThe trial. Food, medicine, and eight billion judges.
3The InheritanceThe legacy. Mars, India, and what cannot be killed.

About the author

Vincent Brightmore

Civilization analyst and pattern essayist. Entrepreneur for 50 years. Still building. My non-fiction says it slowly, with sources. This trilogy says it the other way — through people you come to care about, in a future close enough to touch. The mechanisms are the same ones I write about in my other books. Only the faces are invented.

The non-fiction behind the trilogyThe Human Paradox — we built everything we wanted, and are losing everything we needed.

World Wide2034The trilogy