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Creation: Part I Creation
A thought-provoking thriller about the origins of life, science, and power.
A thought-provoking thriller about the origins of life, science, and power.
Five scientists. One reactor. A question that has never been answered.
When a small research team attempts to create life from pure chemistry in a geochemical reactor modeled on early Earth's hydrothermal vents, they expect to confront the limits of science. They don't expect to confront each other — or the forces that converge when the stakes become civilization-scale.
Creation: Part I is a thriller grounded in real science: the error threshold, the RNA world, protocell formation, and the ancient question of how chemistry becomes life. The science is real. The drama is human.
The scientific concepts in this novel — the error catastrophe, Eigen's threshold, minimal genomes, hydrothermal vent chemistry — are not invented for fiction. They are real, active areas of research.
Jim Lauletta has developed a companion scientific program based on the same ideas: a serious, peer-reviewed proposal to actually run this experiment. The computational study is published on bioRxiv. A NASA Exobiology grant proposal is complete and seeking institutional partnership.
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