In a future rebuilt after nearly a century of war, collapse, and environmental failure, humanity survives inside mile-high vertical cities governed by artificial systems designed to optimize life, suppress instability, and enforce order at all costs.
History is managed. Memory is curated. What came before has been buried beneath steel and data, entombed in an artificial twilight. It is an age shaped by systems, and a generation raised within their limits.Iris Vale knows this world only as it has been presented to her until she escapes a covert research facility hidden deep within the city’s lower layers. Years of her life have been taken, her memories fractured, her existence classified.
As fragments of her past begin to resurface, Iris realizes she was never an anomaly. She is part of a larger truth buried inside the very systems designed to control humanity. Set in Chicago in the year 2159, Transition Age follows Iris as she navigates towering vertical districts, rigid social hierarchies, surveillance-driven institutions, and the forces that shaped her into something both feared and contained.
As truth presses against control, she must confront what reclaiming her past will cost, and whether exposing what was buried is worth destabilizing a world built to value order over humanity.
The past is buried beneath steel, data, and false narratives. History may repeat itself in the Transition Age, but the hidden powers controlling the world would never admit it.
In mile-high megacities controlled by oppressive governments, megacorporations, and artificial intelligence, the populace lives fearful of going against the order. Survival depends on ignorance and obedience.
Everywhere is surveilled by megacorporations and a central world government that leaves nothing unwatched and no one unaccounted for. Quantum-based artificial intelligence monitors every citizen and controls every decision.
Trauma and biotechnology have suppressed the identity and truth Iris was never meant to remember. Piecing it together means confronting why she and hundred of other children were abducted for covert experimentation.
In a world managed by a central world government and dueling megacorporations, order becomes enforceable and non-negotiable. Breaking from it comes at a cost few are willing to come to terms with.
In a future rebuilt after war and continental devastation, biotechnology emerges as a way to correct past perceived inadequacies of humans. Health becomes something to optimize and augment.
"Establishing a rich, detailed history of wars, conflicts, and rebuilding, Corriveau does more than just set the stage; he provides essential context for why the characters feel and act the way they do"
Marina, Goodreads
"...the danger of the situation is impossible to miss. The hunt for her identity soon molds into a thick web of intrigue, which seems to grow more sinister and dire with each secret that's revealed."
Tonja, Goodreads
"This is the kind of dystopian fiction that burrows under your skin it is scary at its core, the stuff that nightmares are born from."
Tracy, Goodreads
"Once I got into the storyline, I realized how perfectly the author set us up to really understand the setting. Within just a few pages of meeting the FMC, I knew I wasn't going to be able to put it down."
Jenn, Goodreads
Tyler Corriveau grew up in the Greater Boston area with a lifelong passion for science fiction across books, film, and television. Storytelling became his way of exploring systems, power, and identity, and more than a decade of watching how technology quietly manages daily life became the foundation for the Transition Age Trilogy.
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The collapse of trust begins when history unravels.
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Born into a world that believes history has been solved, the first generation of the Transition Age grows up inside cities governed by invisible systems designed to optimize human life. Stability is assumed, choice feels unnecessary, and the past is treated as something distant and irrelevant.
