THE SALLERIANVERSE / VOLUME 012026 EDITION

WELCOME TO THE WRONG SIDE OF REALITY

THE MAP
IS LYING.

A sealed package. A highway blackout. An assignment nobody will explain. Captain Remington Pierce has a destination—until the world stops matching the route.

TECHTOPIA I: OFF-MAP

Real science. Bigger secrets. A brighter tomorrow.

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Techtopia I: Off-Map book cover showing Captain Remington Pierce and his team in a bright futuristic city

A SECRET-GOVERNMENT TECHNO-THRILLER

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01 / THE INCIDENT

THE ROAD
WENT DARK.

2023. A convoy leaves the United Cities of Salleria. The orders are precise. The reason is missing.

Then the lights go out—one system after another—and a familiar highway becomes something else entirely.

02:12 / CONVOY STATUSCOMMS / UNKNOWN
✳INCIDENT REPORTCHAPTER 01
A/01

The package

Sealed. Unmarked except for its custody markings. No one in the convoy will say what is inside.

B/02

The blackout

A white flash. An engine stumbling. Radios and road lights failing. Every ordinary assumption about the route begins to collapse.

C/03

The map

Remington trusts a paper atlas. What happens when the road itself is the least trustworthy thing in the vehicle?

Based on the opening chapter. No plot ending disclosed.
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02 / THE WORLD

WELCOME TO TECHTOPIA.

This city makes the impossible feel routine. Its secrets are another story.

The Techtopia ensemble with a futuristic waterfall city in the background
A BRIGHTER TOMORROW

THE IMPOSSIBLE
IS NORMAL HERE.

Power, information and invention collide in a city built to make tomorrow arrive early.

01

SCIENCE WITH CONSEQUENCES

Invention is not a background decoration. What people build changes what others can do—and what they can lose.

02

THE COST OF KNOWING

An unexplained order is one thing. Discovering who controls the explanation is another.

03

A WORLD WITH LAYERS

Techtopia begins inside the wider SallerianVerse: a connected storytelling universe concerned with memory, time and reality.

THE WORLD FLASHED WHITE.

— CHAPTER ONE, THE SEAM WHERE MAPS DISAGREE
03 / AN UNLOCKED PAGE

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FIRST SIGNAL.

No manufactured review. No borrowed praise. Here is an opening from the actual novel.

It starts with a soldier, an atlas, and a sealed package that should have come with an explanation.

CHAPTER 01 / THE SEAM WHERE MAPS DISAGREE
CHAPTER ONE

The Seam Where Maps Disagree

2023. Exactly four minutes before the EMP events recorded in Chapter 2 of The United Cities of Salleria, Burn Together.

Captain Remington Pierce trusted paper and pavement more than instinct. Tonight he had an atlas open across his knees and a package behind his seat that nobody had been willing to describe to him.

The atlas had survived years of use. The package looked freshly issued. He trusted the atlas more.

Rain chased the convoy north out of the United Cities of Salleria, flattening the light over the highway and turning the lane markers into white streaks beneath the tires. The overhead signs still agreed with the printed road numbers, which counted as good news tonight.

THE REST OF THE STORY IS IN THE BOOK.
SOURCE: ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT

Excerpt from the author-supplied manuscript. Copyright © 2026 Antonio T. Smith Jr.

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04 / CHOOSE YOUR ENTRY POINT

WHAT WOULD YOU NOTICE?

An interactive, spoiler-free exercise inspired by the first chapter. This is a fictional interface—not a test of the reader.

INCIDENT FILE / 001

ONE CONVOY.
THREE DETAILS.
WHICH ONE DO YOU FOLLOW?

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FIELD NOTE / ATLAS

Remington checks the physical map when the digital world stops answering. Sometimes the old evidence is the only evidence you have.

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08 / BEHIND THE STORY

A WORLD THAT
KEEPS OPENING.

Antonio T. Smith Jr. is the author of Techtopia I: Off-Map, a secret-government techno-thriller in the SallerianVerse.

In the manuscript's opening notes, the author describes a larger story shaped by memory, time, moral choices and discoveries that reward close attention. Off-Map is one doorway into that world.

“I am not here to tell you a story. I am here to make you question everything.”
— FROM THE AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
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What is Techtopia I: Off-Map about?

It's a science-fiction techno-thriller about Captain Remington Pierce, an unexplained assignment, and events that disrupt what he believes he knows about the world around him. The opening begins with a convoy and a blackout.

What is the difference between the editions?

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Does this book belong to a larger series?

Yes. The manuscript introduces the SallerianVerse, an interconnected fictional universe. This book is labeled Techtopia I: Off-Map and may be read as the opening of its Techtopia sequence.

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