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The Neuroverse
SPOILER-LIGHT OVERVIEW
Normality is not an ideology. It is an infection.
The Neuroverse is an adult literary speculative-horror novel about a force that transforms humanity’s desire for order, certainty, and normality into something infectious. The novel follows interconnected contemporary characters confronting a world becoming increasingly synchronized and intolerant of difference, alongside a prehistoric family encountering an ancient manifestation of the same phenomenon.
Fifteen-year-old Maya has spent years learning how to appear normal. When an oppressive pressure and low hum begin pulling her family and classmates into perfect alignment, the traits she was taught to hide become the very things keeping her alive.
Across the United States and London, Aria, Theo, Aster, and other neurodivergent and gender-diverse people witness the same transformation as neurotypical people are pulled into alignment. Men become hypermasculine Johns. Women become hyperfeminine Janes. Together, they enforce a rigid gender binary and erase anyone who refuses to conform.
Interwoven with their struggle is the collapse of a Neanderthal family in prehistoric Spain, where hunger, fear, and patriarchal control turn survival into consensus over who will be sacrificed next. At the center is Nera, whose understanding of themself does not fit the gendered role imposed by the family—a form of gender dysphoria far older than the language now used to describe it.
But neurodivergent and gender-diverse people do not align so easily. The traits they were taught to conceal may be humanity’s only chance of resisting. Across both timelines, difference may be the last defense against a force that does not merely demand agreement—it feeds on it.
DEEPER INTO THE NEUROVERSE
The overview above introduces the story without revealing its deeper machinery. Continue below to explore the novel’s speculative science, parallel storylines, and mythic structure.
Follow the Infection
Consciousness is being consumed. Consensus is the straw. The Johns and Janes are its instruments.
At the infection’s center is T. E. Roberts-Frost, a beloved storyteller and biological essentialist whose brain has become the Clew. She gives the infection a language of rules, purity, and fixed identity, presenting clarity as kindness, structure as mercy, and normality as relief.
The Clew is composed of interdimensional nematodes made manifest into the physical world by the true predator: a neutron star whose fifth-dimensional consciousness reaches across realities to feed on lower-dimensional minds.
Now its attention is fixed on Earth.
Across two storylines, humanity faces the same choice: conform and be consumed—or remain different enough to survive.
Inside the Clew
Trace the fictional biology of Panagrolaimus kolymaensis from a microscopic organism with an evolved proboscis and external dendrites to the brain-shaped collective at the center of the infection.
One Infection. Two Storylines. Three Greek Myths.
Across both storylines, consensus begins as a promise of safety and ends in collapse. In the contemporary world, people surrender their differences as society becomes increasingly synchronized. In the Tunnel of Bones storyline, hunger and patriarchal control drive a Neanderthal family toward consensus over who will be killed and eaten next.
The prehistoric storyline is inspired by El Sidrón cave in Asturias, Spain—particularly its Ossuary Gallery, where archaeologists recovered the remains of 13 Neanderthals bearing evidence of cannibalism. The novel transforms that archaeological mystery into an intimate yet horrifying story of family, survival, and consumption.
Three Greek myths provide an additional structure beneath the story. The Neanderthal family’s patriarchal collapse follows a proto-Cronus pattern. The red knotted bracelet connecting Aria and Theo echoes Theseus and the Minotaur. The Eleusinian Mysteries shape the novel’s movement through secrecy, descent, transformation, and return.
Blending speculative science, prehistoric horror, Greek myth, and political satire, The Neuroverse asks who benefits when conformity is mistaken for safety—and what becomes possible when people refuse to disappear. It is a story for readers who believe difference is not a defect to be corrected but a source of knowledge, connection, and power. Enter The Neuroverse and discover why resistance begins with remaining unmistakably yourself.