Iris Vale knows this world only as it has been presented to her until she escapes a covert research facility hidden deep within the city’s lower layers. Years of her life have been taken, her memories fractured, her existence classified. As fragments of her past begin to resurface, Iris realizes she was never an anomaly. She is part of a larger truth buried inside the very systems designed to control humanity.
Set in Chicago in the year 2159, Transition Age follows Iris as she navigates towering vertical districts, rigid social hierarchies, surveillance-driven institutions, and the forces that shaped her into something both feared and contained. As truth presses against control, she must confront what reclaiming her past will cost, and whether exposing what was buried is worth destabilizing a world built to value order over humanity.
Tyler Corriveau grew up in the Greater Boston area with an enduring passion for science fiction across books, film, and television. From an early age, he was drawn to imagined worlds that reflected the complexities, fears, and possibilities of the real one. Storytelling became a way to explore systems, power, and identity through characters shaped by forces larger than themselves. That fascination with worldbuilding has remained central to his work.
As a creative professional, Tyler has witnessed the growing complexity and interconnection of the systems that govern modern life, from communication and social interaction to the technologies that quietly manage daily existence. The Transition Age Trilogy is the result of more than a decade of ideas shaped by those observations. Through science fiction, he explores how humanity adapts, resists, and redefines itself within systems designed to control it.