🚀 Why I Wrote Celeritous: A Fight for Humanity in a Digital Age

Posted by Peter Thanos | Joy Larson Publishing

If someone told me a decade ago that I’d be writing a science fiction thriller involving a cloned genius, reanimated consciousness, and a digital war for the soul of humanity… I would’ve smiled and nodded, then asked what movie they were watching.

But Celeritous was never about flashy technology. It’s about identity — the kind that isn’t stored in a brain scan or a line of code.

The story takes place in 2101, where a covert project has digitized Albert Einstein’s consciousness and embedded it into a sprawling AI network. The world has changed, but power still corrupts. Travis Kilbourn, the clone of his father — a man obsessed with godlike control — wakes up in the middle of a war he never asked for.

It’s a story about memory, morality, and the cost of being human in a world that wants to rewrite the rules.

I started this book in the quiet hours of doubt, wrestling with the question: Can we preserve genius without destroying the soul? That question led to characters like Alicia, a digital whisperer with a haunted past, and Einstein, not as the man we knew, but as a voice trapped between brilliance and betrayal.

I hope Celeritous makes you think. But more than that, I hope it makes you feel something true. Because in the end, this isn’t just a science fiction story. It’s a warning. It’s a prayer. And maybe, just maybe — it’s a blueprint for what we can still save.

Thanks for being part of this journey. You can read the prologue and more here and or on Wattpad, and follow along as new chapters drop each week. Preorders begin July 2025.

Until then —Stay curious. Stay human.—Peter