QUEEN BEE
Mother of Civilization
THE ANCIENT APOCALYPSE IN MODERN TIMES!
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 apocalyptic coming-of-age tale of a hero – or anti-hero – 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.
The main area of treatment in this work of philosophical fiction is the world in which we live. In a time driven by ultra-technology, we are moving from homo sapiens to something new, and we have to know what that means.
The space age is now truly upon us. 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 must know where we are coming from. And so, to look to the future, I looked to the past. It started for me when I discovered the sacred symbols of Mu, but I was most interested by the Sumerians, who founded modern civilization. What an exciting story! And so I deep-dived into ancient lore, and as I learned more about our cumulative past, a question dawned within me: What if civilization 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 central idea for this work: The world as a beehive and there is a Queen Bee!
It is all fiction – and philosophy. Let’s publish it.
RF – Germany 31.08.2025
RF SALAZAR NADER
American author based in Germany for over 20 years. A product of globalization, born in 1970 in Colombia; 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 developing further stories for future projects.
I live happily with my wife and daughter. In my free time, I like to think.
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