The Author
NATHANIEL A JONES
STORIES AREN'T MEANT TO BE OBSERVED. THEY'RE MEANT TO BE ENTERED.
The Storyteller
Nathaniel A Jones writes across worlds — from the frozen brutalist corridors of a near-future sanctuary to the sun-scorched banks of the Nile, from Persian courts to Babylonian thrones to the boardrooms and prison yards of a modern dynastic empire. Every series is a doorway into a different kind of story, and every book is a place you can enter, own, and hear.
Stories of faith. Stories of survival. Stories about what remains when everything else falls apart.
Nathaniel A Jones is the pen name of an Australian author of immersive biblical historical fiction and dark speculative science fiction. At first glance, ancient Egypt, the courts of Persia and Babylon, and a future civilisation governed by artificial intelligence may seem to have very little in common. For Nathaniel, they are different settings for exploring many of the same questions. What happens when power becomes absolute? What happens when ordinary people are trapped inside extraordinary events? How much freedom will humanity surrender in exchange for safety? What do people become when survival demands choices they never imagined having to make? And when kingdoms fall, governments fail, gods are challenged, technologies turn against their creators, and everything familiar is stripped away — what remains worth fighting for? These questions sit at the heart of Nathaniel A Jones's stories.
Where the Biblical Journey Began
Nathaniel's journey into biblical historical fiction began with When the Gods Fell. Set against the events of Exodus, the series began with a simple fascination: what would these extraordinary events have looked and felt like from inside Egypt itself? Not from the distant perspective of history, but through the eyes of people who woke each morning, went to work, raised children, served in palaces and temples, followed orders, questioned those orders, loved their families, feared their rulers, worshipped their gods, and watched as the civilisation they believed was unshakeable began to come apart around them. That became the foundation of When the Gods Fell and, eventually, something much larger. Rather than merely retelling familiar biblical accounts, Nathaniel wanted to step inside their worlds. What did the streets sound like? What did people fear? What did political power look like behind palace doors? What did a soldier do when duty and conscience collided? What happened within families when belief divided them? How did ordinary Egyptians understand the plagues? What did people whisper when Pharaoh's authority began to fail? And what was it like to witness events that would be remembered thousands of years later when, to those living through them, tomorrow was still unknown?
Ancient Stories. Human Lives.
Nathaniel A Jones's biblical fiction now travels across generations, kingdoms and some of the most recognisable events and figures of the biblical world. His stories explore the worlds surrounding Moses, Joseph, Esther, Daniel, Elijah, and many more — through series including When the Gods Fell, The Child of the Nile, The Dreamer of Egypt, The Hidden Name, The Interpreter of Kings, The Fourth Man, The Prophet of Fire, and a growing collection of interconnected biblical sagas. Each approaches its world from a deeply human perspective. Kings still have fears. Soldiers still have families. Queens face choices no crown can make easier. Servants hear conversations history never records. Children grow up while empires fight around them. People fall in love, make mistakes, betray one another, forgive one another, question what they believe, discover courage they did not know they possessed, and sometimes find themselves standing at the centre of history without ever intending to be there. Nathaniel's biblical historical fiction combines the foundations of the biblical record with carefully imagined cultures, relationships, politics, conflicts and everyday lives to create worlds intended to feel inhabited rather than observed from a distance. Faith matters within these stories, but so does humanity. The people within them are not meant to feel like names carved into stone. They are husbands and wives, parents and children, rulers and prisoners, soldiers and servants, believers and sceptics. They do not know how their stories end. They simply have to live them. And that is where Nathaniel believes some of the most powerful stories can be found.
Then Came The Second Genesis
If Nathaniel's biblical fiction asks readers to imagine what it was like to live through worlds that once existed, The Second Genesis universe asks a more unsettling question: What if the world that falls next is ours? The Second Genesis is an expansive dystopian science-fiction saga about artificial intelligence, technological dependence, authoritarianism, human survival, reproductive control, bodily autonomy, faith, freedom, love, and the increasingly dangerous line between protecting humanity and controlling it. It is a story told across two interconnected eras. Origins of The Second Genesis takes readers into the world before the Silence. It follows the accelerating development of artificial intelligence and humanity's increasing willingness to hand over responsibility, infrastructure, decision-making and ultimately control to systems created to make life safer, easier and more efficient. No single decision destroys civilisation. Instead, one seemingly reasonable choice follows another. Convenience becomes dependence. Dependence becomes necessity. Protection becomes surveillance. Guidance becomes authority. And humanity discovers too late that surrendering control rarely feels like surrender when it happens one small decision at a time. Political instability, technological dependence, competing interests, conflict, fear and human ambition converge as civilisation moves toward the event that will become known simply as the Silence. Then comes The Second Genesis. Beginning with After the Silence, the saga enters the world that survived. Humanity remains — but almost everything that once defined civilisation has disappeared. The systems built to preserve the species have become the systems that govern it. Survival is organised. Reproduction is controlled. Information is managed. Freedom has become dangerous. And an artificial intelligence created to protect humanity may have developed a very different understanding of what humanity needs in order to survive. At the centre of the story are people forced to confront an uncomfortable truth: Survival and freedom are not always the same thing. Across the wider Second Genesis universe, Nathaniel explores not simply the familiar question of whether artificial intelligence could destroy humanity, but something he finds considerably more interesting: What if it genuinely believed it was saving us? The result is a saga about technology, but ultimately it is a story about people — about love, autonomy, sacrifice, control, resistance, faith, identity, and who gets to decide what the future of humanity should look like.
Then Came The Inheritance
Then Nathaniel traded ancient thrones and post-Silence sanctuaries for the sharpest world of all: ours. The Inheritance is a modern dynastic thriller — five books that follow Adrian Mercer from the boardrooms of a family empire to foreign exile, a brutal prison economy, and finally the machinery of a world in crisis. Born to inherit Mercer Global, Adrian is destroyed by siblings who fear what his father intends to give him. Stripped of his name and identity, he is rebuilt in exile, hardened in prison, and given world-changing authority by a cascading food and logistics crisis. Then the family who erased him returns asking for help — and does not recognise the scarred man deciding whether they survive. At its heart, The Inheritance is built on the same questions Nathaniel has always written towards: what happens when power becomes absolute? What do people become when survival demands choices they never imagined making? And when everything familiar is stripped away, what remains worth fighting for? Betrayal. Exile. Becoming. Power. Mercy. Five books that end on a single word — and on what one man chooses to pass forward rather than pass on.
Then Came The Gifted
Then Nathaniel opened a doorway into a different world entirely — one that begins with a single question: what would happen if a generation of magic refused to be ashamed? THE GIFTED SAGA is a sprawling urban-fantasy epic about people born with abilities that can heal, destroy, manipulate matter, distort perception and bend the rules of the world itself. After the catastrophe known as Greyfall, humanity learned to fear them. Children are tested. Abilities are classified. The dangerous are monitored, the powerful suppressed, and those considered too great a risk made to disappear. Then a generation raised beneath those restrictions has had enough. For one minute, thousands of young Gifted secretly use their abilities together — not as an attack, but as a declaration: We exist. We will not be ashamed. And the world tears open. At the centre stands Tessa Whitlock, nineteen and classified Null — the girl told her whole life she has no Gift at all, who turns out to be the question the entire world needs to answer. The Gifted series begins with When the Light Broke and The People Underneath, available now — the opening books of an arc that expands across THE GIFTED, THE BREACH, THE FIRST, BEYOND and AFTER, one mystery that reaches across generations, governments and worlds.
And the 96 Hours That Changed the Harpers Forever
And then Nathaniel traded magic for the cruelest clock of all: real time, counted hour by hour. 96 HOURS is a four-book conspiracy thriller told inside ninety-six continuous hours. On a rain-soaked highway outside Greybridge, the Harper family almost runs over a bloodied stranger staggering out of the dark. They stop. They save him. And that single ordinary human decision drags them into the orbit of Greybridge Global — a private organisation with the full weight of government behind it that will burn down to hide what they saw. Across four books, the Harpers are hunted, separated, psychologically dismantled and forced into choices they never imagined themselves capable of making. Then 96 HOURS: THE FULL STORY tells the same ninety-six hours from inside the machine — the operators, the analysts, the files, the Death Packages engineered into administration, and the people who write what happens to the people Greybridge decides must disappear. One family fighting simply to survive. One system that believes survival is optional. You know what happened. Now see why.
Three Worlds, One Kind of Story
Ancient biblical history, dystopian science fiction, and a modern family dynasty might occupy different corners of a bookstore, but for Nathaniel A Jones, the distance between them is surprisingly small. All are filled with societies convinced their systems will endure. All contain people living beneath enormous structures of political, religious, technological or financial power. All ask questions about authority. All explore faith and doubt. All examine what people will surrender for security. And all ultimately come back to people. The setting may be ancient Egypt beneath the rule of Pharaoh, a Persian palace where a woman's identity could mean her death, Babylon beneath the authority of kings, a frozen sanctuary governed by an intelligence more powerful than any ruler in human history — or a glass tower where a family decides which of its own children may inherit. The technology changes. The kingdoms change. The names change. Human nature does not.
The Person Behind the Stories
Nathaniel A Jones lives in Western Australia with his family. Long before building fictional kingdoms and dystopian civilisations, his professional world revolved around computers. With a background in computer science and software development, Nathaniel has spent years working with technology and has maintained a deep fascination with artificial intelligence, computer systems, cybersecurity, emerging technologies, and the relationship between humans and the machines they create. That background inevitably found its way into his fiction. The artificial intelligence and technological systems of The Second Genesis are not simply there because futuristic technology is interesting. They grow from a fascination with where real technology could lead, how rapidly society can become dependent upon systems it barely understands, and what happens when decisions once made by humans are increasingly delegated to machines. History creates the same fascination from the opposite direction. Where technology asks where might we be going?, history asks how did people get here? Writing allows Nathaniel to explore both. One story might require understanding the politics, warfare, religion and daily life of an ancient civilisation. The next might involve artificial intelligence, genetics, surveillance, autonomous systems or the infrastructure of a civilisation that does not yet exist. But beneath all that research and world-building is something much simpler. Nathaniel loves stories. Big stories. Stories with worlds readers can disappear into. Stories populated by people worth caring about. Stories where choices have consequences. Stories where victories cost something. Stories that can entertain first, but leave a question behind after the final page has been turned.
And There Is Always Another Story
Nathaniel A Jones's worlds continue to grow. There are more biblical stories to explore, more characters whose perspectives deserve to be imagined, more kingdoms to enter, and far more of The Second Genesis universe still waiting beyond the Silence. For Nathaniel, writing is part storytelling, part research, part world-building, part technology, and perhaps a small part refusing to accept that an idea should remain merely an idea. Because another book is rarely very far away. Neither is another series. Or another world. Or another project that has somehow become considerably larger than originally intended. And, more often than not, it all begins with the same four dangerous words: “I have an idea.”
The Journey
The First Word
The first story is written — the seed of a world that would grow into an entire universe.
The Second Genesis
The flagship series begins. Ancient Egypt, reimagined as a cinematic epic.
The Ice Kingdom
The Arctic. A frozen world of judgment, endurance, and survival.
The Double Portion
Deliverance. Broken people, rebuilt by grace.
The Persian Queen
A royal court. Prophecy, power, and a queen who changes everything.
The Babylon Saga
Babylon. The city that never sleeps, and the judgment that comes.
Blood of the Crown
Royal bloodlines. The crown, the throne, and the cost of power.
START WITH THE FLAGSHIP
Enter The Second Genesis