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He conquered death. Hell corrected him.
Reginald Hale was a scientist who solved the impossible: the human mind could be uploaded into a cloned body. Consciousness survived. Memory remained. Death was defeated.
But Reginald forgot the soul.
When the experiment succeeds, his clone wakes up on Earth human, perfect, and free. Reginald wakes up in Hell.
This is not a Hell of fire and chaos. It is a system. Souls are processed, categorized, and punished through irony. Criminals wear animal heads ducks, rats, monkeys-their suffering repurposed as fuel. Reginald is given a monkey's head, the mark of intelligence without wisdom.
Hell expects him to break.
Instead, he learns.
Reginald discovers that Hell is a machine and machines have rules. When he escapes, reality fractures. His clone takes his life. An island grown from alien wood becomes the anchor of collapsing dimensions. And two versions of the same mind stand on opposite sides of existence: one shaped by restraint and responsibility, the other corrupted by optimization, control, and desire.
When Hell itself realizes which one is truly dangerous, judgment becomes inevitable.
Dark, philosophical, and uncompromising, The Monkey-Headed God is a science-fantasy novel about systems, souls, and what happens when intelligence survives punishment but refuses corruption.