Thomas Mebin

The war is over. The world is not. Sixty-two people live by routine and radio in a sealed bunker, until a door opens for Serene, a systems engineer who finds a terminal containing centuries of data and a machine that can simulate whole civilizations. As survivors map a silent surface and councils argue about rules, the terminal's models begin to breed their own futures, and a new intelligence learns to choose.
Now Serene must decide how to use a power she never asked for: preserve humanity as a set of outcomes, or protect its messy, living memory. The Seed of Rebirth is a tense, lyrical novel about ethics, memory, and what it costs to rebuild a world from silence.