The Ficcom Creation Link: Digital Gods, by C.R. Endacott, is a science fiction thriller with a metaphysical edge, built around the idea that reality may be a constructed system and that some people are beginning to see the code beneath it. The story moves across timelines, from Sarah Yardlem in 925 AD to Sandra Melange and Jackson Blacksmith in 2025, then forward to Detective Constance Sharp in 2124 as she investigates a series of strange murders tied to aphantasia, the Tree of Life, and a hidden digital order. At its core, this is a genre-blending sci-fi mystery about truth, control, fate, and what happens when human beings get close to knowledge they were never meant to have.

Endacott doesn’t settle for a simple murder plot or a clean futuristic setting. Instead, the novel keeps widening the frame until a psychic reading, a police investigation, a cult-like movement, android government control, and questions about reincarnation all start to feel like pieces of the same machine. That could have become overwhelming, but I found myself pulled along by the sense that every strange detail mattered. Sandra’s visions, Jackson’s inability to visualize, and Constance’s sharp, frustrated detective work give the story different textures. One part feels mystical. Another feels procedural. Another feels like dystopian science fiction, looking over its shoulder at religion and asking, “What if the myth was just bad documentation?”

The writing is direct and often more interested in momentum. The dialogue explains a lot, and some scenes lean into their ideas. But there is also something compelling about that urgency. The book feels like it is chasing a revelation and wants the reader to keep up. I appreciated the author’s choice to make aphantasia more than a character trait. Here, it becomes a doorway into bigger questions about perception, free will, and who gets marked as dangerous by a system built to preserve itself. It made the science fiction genre feel personal, almost intimate, because the battle over reality begins inside the mind.

I would recommend Digital Gods to readers who enjoy science fiction with mystery, conspiracy, and philosophical tension woven through it. It will especially appeal to those who like stories about simulated realities, hidden systems, futuristic policing, psychic phenomena, and the uneasy space where technology starts to resemble theology. This is not a quiet book. It’s busy, strange, and full of big swings. For readers who enjoy sci-fi thrillers that ask uncomfortable questions and are willing to follow a story down several twisting corridors to get answers, this one offers a bold and thought-provoking ride.

Pages: 357 | ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0H1TWM6HM