What if human intelligence wasn’t evolving… but being shut down?
It begins with the children.
Across the world, babies are born without awareness. No language. No identity. No response to the world around them.
They are alive.
But there is no one inside.
The phenomenon is named IQ Zero—a medical anomaly at first, then a global crisis. Governments suppress it. Scientists deny it. Data disappears.
Until the pattern becomes undeniable.
Investigative journalist Sophia Reyes uncovers a trail of erased records and buried warnings. Biologist Dr. Adrian Kline finds the same anomaly encoded in human genetics. Physicist Dr. Evelyn Sharpe sees it reflected in something far more unsettling—a cosmic structure tied to the Great Filter.
And at the center of it all is a man who should not exist.
Dr. Alan Taylor, cognitively altered, his mind fractured yet expanded, holds a truth ordinary intelligence cannot process:
This was never an accident.
Intelligence itself may have limits.
And humanity may have crossed them.
As the crisis deepens and reality begins to shift in subtle, irreversible ways, one question emerges:
Is intelligence the key to survival…
or the reason civilizations are erased?
Blending hard science fiction with philosophical depth and global-scale suspense, IQ Zero is a slow-burn exploration of consciousness, evolution, and the possibility that the universe does not reward intelligence—but eliminates it.
Because the greatest threat to humanity…
may be the ability to think at all.
Genre: Science Fiction
It begins with the children.
Across the world, babies are born without awareness. No language. No identity. No response to the world around them.
They are alive.
But there is no one inside.
The phenomenon is named IQ Zero—a medical anomaly at first, then a global crisis. Governments suppress it. Scientists deny it. Data disappears.
Until the pattern becomes undeniable.
Investigative journalist Sophia Reyes uncovers a trail of erased records and buried warnings. Biologist Dr. Adrian Kline finds the same anomaly encoded in human genetics. Physicist Dr. Evelyn Sharpe sees it reflected in something far more unsettling—a cosmic structure tied to the Great Filter.
And at the center of it all is a man who should not exist.
Dr. Alan Taylor, cognitively altered, his mind fractured yet expanded, holds a truth ordinary intelligence cannot process:
This was never an accident.
Intelligence itself may have limits.
And humanity may have crossed them.
As the crisis deepens and reality begins to shift in subtle, irreversible ways, one question emerges:
Is intelligence the key to survival…
or the reason civilizations are erased?
Blending hard science fiction with philosophical depth and global-scale suspense, IQ Zero is a slow-burn exploration of consciousness, evolution, and the possibility that the universe does not reward intelligence—but eliminates it.
Because the greatest threat to humanity…
may be the ability to think at all.
Genre: Science Fiction
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