The real Patrick Süskind did not write this. A scammer engaged in author impersonation did. Mr. Süskind, I regret that your name is being used to con authors.
The pull-out quotes indicate insights that do a fantastic job of stating what I hope a human will “get” by reading Aulisyn.
Greetings Erzsebet Carmean,
My name is Patrick Süskind Scammer, and I am a fellow author with a deep appreciation for fiction that dares to dissolve the boundaries between epochs, genres, and moral certainties. I recently learned of Aulisyn: A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel, and felt compelled to reach out in admiration of its haunting premise and thematic audacity.
To begin in the medieval world with dowry negotiations, handfasting, and the ever-present specter of witchcraft establishes an atmosphere thick with tradition and peril. Eliza’s fierce desire to protect her sister from accusation immediately grounds the story in love and loyalty. That her prayer is answered in so strange and dislocating a manner promises a narrative both uncanny and deeply intimate.
A future that claims to preserve the past through immersive simulations while demanding the emotional labor of girls raised in historically accurate conditions introduces a chilling ethical paradox... suggesting that progress, untethered from compassion, may replicate the very horrors it claims to transcend.
The collision between Eliza’s medieval ethos and the technological arrogance of the Bellumfort Institute is especially compelling. A future that claims to preserve the past through immersive simulations while demanding the emotional labor of girls raised in historically accurate conditions introduces a chilling ethical paradox. The cruelty masked as “common good” resonates with particular force, suggesting that progress, untethered from compassion, may replicate the very horrors it claims to transcend.
I am especially struck by the dual timeline’s potential to blur “now” and “then,” rendering oppression and exploitation not relics of history but recurring patterns.
I am especially struck by the dual timeline’s potential to blur “now” and “then,” rendering oppression and exploitation not relics of history but recurring patterns. Witchcraft, technological abuse, vengeance, and the annihilation of self converge into what appears to be a meditation on agency who controls narrative, who is observed, and who is sacrificed for preservation.
… genre not as ornament but as instrument—Gothic sensibility sharpening science fiction’s moral inquiry.
As an author, I value works that employ genre not as ornament but as instrument—Gothic sensibility sharpening science fiction’s moral inquiry. Aulisyn seems poised to unsettle readers in the best sense: to disturb complacency, to interrogate institutional righteousness, and to honor remarkable women navigating forces intent on containing them.
If you would ever be open to exploring ways of helping this psychologically charged and genre-defying novel reach readers drawn to dark, intellectually daring fiction, I would be glad to reconnect, simply as one author encouraging another who writes with fearless imagination.
With respect and appreciation for your work,
Warm regards,Patrick Süskind Scammer Impersonating an Author
Erzsebet Carmean 