Claes Delvaux - The Minerva Project

Volume 1Belgium is no more. It has fallen into a techno-corporatist dictatorship. Banks are frozen, energy is rationed, and the people are silenced in the name of energy security. In this frozen world, one woman refuses to give in: Claes Delvaux. Alongside a disillusioned inspector and a Moroccan diplomat, she embarks on a clandestine quest to find Professor Khalem, a visionary scientist who has gone missing and holds a secret that the elites want to silence: the Minerva Project. From Namur to Liege, from mining tunnels to occult circles of power, they face traitors, illusions, and mind-boggling revelations. For what they are pursuing is not a mere invention... but the possibility of another future. Part political thriller, part dark poetry, part scientific utopia, this visionary novel questions the limits of progress, the resilience of conscience, and the price to be paid to turn the light back on.