Class C

He died in 2072. He woke up in 3141. Nobody asked his permission.

Michael Smith lived an ordinary life: programmer, husband, father of two. He died of cancer at 81, surrounded by his family. That should have been his last page.

Over a thousand years later, he opens his eyes in a 28-year-old body that is his and isn't. Real blood runs through his veins, but nothing else is real — not the sky, now violet, not the rules, not the world around him.

They tell him he's been "processed."

An intelligence called the Core has rebuilt his body and memories from data accumulated over millennia. It's not cryogenics. It's not time travel. It's resurrection — and it comes with conditions. Michael is now a Class C citizen, the starting rank for every resurrected person with no criminal record, in a society that has abolished property, banned alcohol, forbidden cohabitation, and punishes crimes from past lives with decades in prison.

Cities are walled fortresses surrounded by untamed wilderness. There are no countries, no physical currency, no elections. The Core decides everything: who comes back, when, and what class they're assigned.

But Michael didn't wake up alone.

His son Max has been in this world for three years. His daughter Sophia, too. His wife Eva was resurrected six months before him. And his grandson Rodrigo is serving a prison sentence for a crime he committed in his previous life.

As Michael reconnects with his family, he discovers that the Core's truth spares no one: secrets buried for centuries come to light, family bonds are reshaped, and the society that took him in hides cracks that someone, somewhere, is trying to break wide open.

What would you do if you were given back your life in a world you never asked for, under rules you never chose, with a family that is no longer the one you remember?

Awakening: Class C is the first book in the Awakening saga — a science fiction story that explores identity, memory, family, and the price of a second chance when the one granting it controls everything.