QUEEN BEE
Mother of Civilization
Clement Justus Zurvanian, a boy of the privileged class, was born in an apiary in Mexico and grew up learning the secret traditions of the ancient Maya. During his initiation ritual in a hidden cave, he is shaken by the premonition of a harrowing personal destiny; he is to become a modern-day Utnapishtim, forewarned of the intentional destruction of the entire world, fated to lead a small group of survivors into an uncertain future.
QUEEN BEE is the modern, pre-apocalyptic coming-of-age tale of a new hero – or anti-hero – who is called upon to act on behalf of humanity.
As a child in Oaxaca, Clement has various character-forming friends and experiences, grooming him from a young age to accept his inevitable fate. As a young man in San Francisco, California, he meets Enos and Cyrus, two extraordinary individuals with astounding ambitions, who will introduce him to his destiny. As they recruit him to their cause, he surmises that to thwart their apocalyptic plans, the Queen Bee, the metaphoric Mother of our civilization and ruler of the known world, would have to be sacrificed. To save humanity, the Queen Bee must die!
QUEEN BEE
QUEEN BEE is RF Salazar Nader’s debut novel of speculative fiction.
Why are we living in the world in which we live? That is the main area of treatment in this work of fiction, but also of philosophy. In it’s weighty light-heartedness, this work is asking the most important question of our times. We are at a juncture between two humanities. As Yuval has said, we are moving from homo sapiens to homo deus, and we have to know what that means, namely that space-age technology has finally arrived. What shall we do with it?
We are now homo deus; how will we apply our intelligence, to what end, with which beneficiaries? We have a responsibility to ourselves as we develop god-like powers of creating life. Is an artificial intelligence life? What is life? What am I? The intelligence is Light in the ether; I just grab it.
If we want to know where we are going, we need to know where we are coming from. And so, to look to the future, I looked to the past. It started for me with the sacred symbols of Mu but I was most interested by the Sumerians, who founded modern, aka Western civilization, in Mesopotamia. What an exciting story. And so I deep-dived into ancient lore, and as I learned more about our cumulative past, a novel question arose within me: What if cities were built top-down by a dominant civilizing class, and not bottom-up by hunter-gatherers looking for a better way of life? This question led to the idea for this work: What if the world was a beehive and there was a Queen Bee?
It is all fiction. And Philosophy. Let’s publish it.
RF – Wiesbaden 31.08.2025
RF SALAZAR NADER
I am an American author based in Germany for over 20 years. A true product of globalization, I was born in 1970 in Colombia and have lived and worked in many countries and continents around the world.
I have self-published various books of literary and philosophical fiction, in both prose and verse. I am currently polishing those works for commercial publication, as well as developing further stories for future projects.
In my free time, I like to think. I live happily in Wiesbaden with my wife and daughter.
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