A historical thriller-sf novel
BUCARESDAVA The City Underneath
Bucharest stands on something older than its own name
A Geto-Dacian dava on the Dâmbovița river became a citadel, then the citadel became a capital, and the capital burned, was emptied by plague, was shelled, and was raised again over its own foundations. Through all of it, the same mysterious object keeps surfacing within a few hundred paces of the water.
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Beneath the city
The Dâmbovița ran through marsh and alder for centuries while the city was still nothing, and something was already buried in that mud when the first man came to give the place a name.
The story
A city with more than one past
Bucaresdava is a historical thriller-sf told through the lives of people separated by centuries and tied to the same city.
It begins with a Geto-Dacian dava on the Dâmbovița river, before Bucharest had a name, then runs through the old princely court, through fire, plague and a capital spreading outward, and in every generation someone turns up another fragment of what the ground has never let go of.
- Before the name A settlement on the river, and the ground it chose.
- The princely city Courts, ash and plague years, rebuilt on their own rubble.
- The capital Boulevards cut straight across older, quieter ground.
- Now The latest visible layer, and not the last.
The object
Found, and found again
A dark metal disk, roughly five centimetres across. No known origin. No inscription anyone can explain. And a memory longer than the city itself.
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