Portal de Turismo de Castilla y León

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The world, as we know it, is collapsing. Long-simmering crises converge in a catastrophe that obliterates industrial civilization. Only a scattered remnant of humanity remains, forced to survive among the ruins.

But even before the collapse, some had begun preparing for the future. Carmelo, a young researcher, is thrust from his quiet academic life into an ancient organization dedicated to preserving human knowledge, now involved in the utopian project of laying the foundations for a new civilization.

Decades later, as one of the last witnesses to the past, Carmelo writes his memoirs for new generations. His account tells the story of how, after the disaster, a new society of small, symbiotic villages began to rise in alliance with the Biosphere as a whole. It is also a warning against repeating past mistakes. In Parts Two and Three, the novel leaps into the distant future, five hundred and a thousand years later, to see how that society, born from the ruins of the techno-world, has evolved.

The Invention of the World is the story of an adventure of survival and hope, a reflection on what deserves to be saved when all is lost and how to build a more humane civilization. A utopia, at a time when utopias are so necessary. Because after the apocalypse comes not silence; comes the most difficult task of all: to begin again.

José David Sacristán holds a doctorate in History. He has been a professor of Prehistory and Ancient History at the University of Burgos and an archaeologist for the Junta de Castilla y León in Burgos and Valladolid. In addition to his professional publications, he is the author of humanistic essays ("A Language for Babel," "Living Without Gods," "The Next Middle Ages," "Between Failure and Utopia: The Next Twenty Years," "In Search of Moby Dick") in which he has applied the long-term perspective of an archaeologist to reflect on the present. In fiction, he has published the novel *The Göttingen Archive*, which recounts the events leading up to the story told in *The Invention of the World*, and the book of short stories "Moon Tales."