In a post-apocalyptic future shaped by technological marvels, crushing poverty, and climate upheaval, Kip Cassino's Supplicant presents a chilling vision of immortality, faith, and control.
Set five hundred years from now, Supplicant imagines a world where unending life is available only to those wealthy enough to afford it. Just two hundred long-lived elites rule over civilization, commanding a fractured world built on inequality, advanced biotechnology, and the exploitation of those created to serve. At the center of this dark and provocative story is KAX, a tiny gene-edited survivor who must fight not only to stay alive, but to bring the blessings of supplication to all mankind.
Literary Titan describes Supplicant as "a science fiction novel with a strong dystopian streak," praising its bold speculative premise and its unsettling examination of a future where prayer has been "measured, weaponized, and folded into the machinery of power itself." In Cassino's world, directed prayer becomes infrastructure, a force used to preserve life and sustain the elite through engineered supplicants who exist to pray without end.
The novel follows violence, political maneuvering, and the fate of KAX as it transforms a sweeping speculative concept into a deeply personal story of dignity, survival, and resistance. Cassino explores what happens when something sacred is absorbed by systems of ownership, biotech, hierarchy, and institutional control.
Dark, ambitious, and idea-driven, Supplicant is a powerful work of dystopian science fiction for readers drawn to stories that wrestle with religion, power, bioengineering, and the moral cost of building a society on human dependence. Literary Titan notes that the novel is "unapologetically severe" and recommends it to readers who appreciate speculative fiction that is unsettling, provocative, and willing to follow a bold idea to its most disturbing conclusions.
With its vivid worldbuilding and fearless approach to difficult themes, Supplicant invites readers into a future where immortality has a price, faith has become a commodity, and one unlikely survivor may hold the key to changing humanity's fate.
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About the Author
Kip Cassino was born in New York City and has traveled much of the world. His life and career have taken him through an extraordinary range of experiences, including running micro-tool factories in Israel and Hong Kong, studying art in Munich, and assembling nuclear weapons in South Korea. He is a Vietnam veteran.
Cassino has worked in construction, served as a soldier, written for newspapers, conducted market research, and accurately forecasted the future of several industries. His articles have appeared in publications including The New Times, Smithsonian Air & Space, Entrepreneur, and Ad Week. He has been interviewed by Meet the Press, the BBC, and VICE.
In addition to his nonfiction and analytical work, Cassino has written science fiction for Analog and has authored numerous marketing and political spending analyses. In 2008, he received the Research Award of Merit from the Newspaper Association of America.
Cassino credits his late wife and life partner, Helen, with turning his urge to write into reality. Though her time in his life was far too short, her influence continues to shape his work. Since her passing, he has moved closer to his grandchildren and now lives and works in Harrison, New York.
Email: cassinokip@gmail.com
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