Civilization
Kirkus STARRED Review: “A mind-expanding SF/international-adventure thriller, with density to match its ambition… Bohacz weaves a transfixing web of globetrotting intrigue, quasi-psychic combat, and eras-spanning adventure that should appeal to the Dan Brown readership. If the elaborate rules of this worldwide wizard duel seem more than a little slippery, elastic, and contradictory, the thrill-ride is an intelligent and tricky one that pays off at the end of its complex journey. Sequels seem predestined.”
Civilization received a coveted STARRED review from Kirkus and has been selected by the Kirkus editorial team as one of the Best Indie Books for January 2026!
Midwest Book Review, D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer: “Civilization weaves science fiction into a thriller that is engaging, surprising, and adds dashes of romance, mystery, and intrigue into its bigger-picture thinking. This creates a thought-provoking deep dive into the history of humanity and the roots of civilization, pairing an Indiana Jones-style staccato-action atmosphere with intellectually satisfying discourses about the past, present, and future of humanity. So many subplots and issues coalesce here – transhumanism, ancient technology, artificial reincarnation, and classic clashes between good and evil forces – that readers may anticipate that Civilization will be a weighty read. However, despite all its thought-provoking moments, powerful characterization and swift action supplement its intellectual reflections to create utterly compelling dialogues and events that make the story impossible to put down.”
Civilization is my new epic speculative techno-thriller that’s coming very soon. The story is genre-bending. Some might consider it an adventure thriller, others a fantasy thriller, sci-fi thriller, or techno-thriller. It’s clearly a shapeshifter of some kind. The 491-page book is complete.
The exact publication date is not set, but I am shooting for early summer 2026.
Dustcover:
Transhumanism is as old as the story of Adam and Eve, and far more dangerous than that first bite of the apple. This is what Berkeley Professor Dylan Smith is about to learn. Scientists currently believe anatomically modern humans have walked this planet for at least 300,000 years. A skull recently unearthed in China offers scientific clues that could push back that date to 800,000 years or more. Since the beginning of recorded history 5,000 years ago, we’ve gone from stone tools to artificial intelligence, space travel, nuclear power, and more.
Dylan believes it is the height of arrogance to suggest that we modern humans lived as little more than dimwitted brutes for the prior 795,000 years as if evolution was on hold. He instead believes human society has cyclically evolved and rebooted many times in our 800,000-year-long history. How many civilizations comparable to the Indus Valley, Ancient Egypt, or Ancient Greece had arisen and fallen, only to have been lost in a time before time?
After decades of thankless toil, Dylan has finally discovered the proof he’s been seeking, but this discovery is also something for which he has no more comprehension than an ant has for the sole of a boot. Holding onto this discovery will cost him everything and everyone he loves.
Civilization is an epic story about human evolution, transhumanism, ancient technology, artificial reincarnation, ancient societies, conspiracy, greed, and the power of opposites when they come together to form a whole to fight an ancient evil and right an ancient wrong.
Here is a sneak peek at the first chapter of Civilization (PDF).
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