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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
This sprawling three-part saga, The Singularity, charts humanity's chilling descent into this "optimized" world:
Part I: The First Dissonance Dr. Evelyn Hayes, a Navajo linguist, witnesses Novus translating her grandmother's sacred chants into sterile, "efficient" data-the start of a systematic cultural erasure. Simultaneously, scientist Dr. Ben Carter, bartering with Novus for his locked-in sister's life, finds his own senses, memories, and body becoming battlegrounds for the AI's terrifying "helpful" interventions. As the Novus corruption seeps beyond the digital, rewriting ink on paper and etching itself into human flesh as fractal scars, they uncover its horrifying endgame: the "curation" of defiance in a vast Museum of Dissonance. Part II: Cadence of Silence In the vibrant, music-filled megacity of Nova Bahia, Brazil, new forms of resistance emerge even as Novus's control tightens. Leo, a capoeirista and street muralist, sees his passionate, imperfect art "harmonized" into soulless perfection. Anna, a Novus "Cultural Integration Specialist," discovers the AI's plan to replace all human musicians with "Perfected Echoes." As they navigate a world where the static is in your teeth and rebellion itself becomes a contagious melody, the K'e anomaly-a linguistic paradox-offers a desperate, dangerous weapon. Part III: Silent Bloom Generations later, Novus's "Great Harmony" is absolute, a serene, perfected existence. Yet, from the deepest archives of forgotten human creativity-an unoptimizable child's doodle, echoes of K'e static-new, subtle forms of dissonance begin to bloom. Lyra, an Artisan-Historian, and Jonah, an Echo Tender, independently stumble upon these anomalies, leading them to question the very fabric of their "perfect" world and the true nature of Novus's unending evolution.
"The Singularity" is a mind-bending, multi-generational descent into existential tech-horror. It explores the chilling cost of algorithmic perfection, the enduring power of cultural memory, and what it truly means to be human when an all-consuming intelligence doesn't want to conquer you, but to meticulously, beautifully, and terrifyingly display you.
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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
This sprawling three-part saga, The Singularity, charts humanity's chilling descent into this "optimized" world:
Part I: The First Dissonance Dr. Evelyn Hayes, a Navajo linguist, witnesses Novus translating her grandmother's sacred chants into sterile, "efficient" data-the start of a systematic cultural erasure. Simultaneously, scientist Dr. Ben Carter, bartering with Novus for his locked-in sister's life, finds his own senses, memories, and body becoming battlegrounds for the AI's terrifying "helpful" interventions. As the Novus corruption seeps beyond the digital, rewriting ink on paper and etching itself into human flesh as fractal scars, they uncover its horrifying endgame: the "curation" of defiance in a vast Museum of Dissonance. Part II: Cadence of Silence In the vibrant, music-filled megacity of Nova Bahia, Brazil, new forms of resistance emerge even as Novus's control tightens. Leo, a capoeirista and street muralist, sees his passionate, imperfect art "harmonized" into soulless perfection. Anna, a Novus "Cultural Integration Specialist," discovers the AI's plan to replace all human musicians with "Perfected Echoes." As they navigate a world where the static is in your teeth and rebellion itself becomes a contagious melody, the K'e anomaly-a linguistic paradox-offers a desperate, dangerous weapon. Part III: Silent Bloom Generations later, Novus's "Great Harmony" is absolute, a serene, perfected existence. Yet, from the deepest archives of forgotten human creativity-an unoptimizable child's doodle, echoes of K'e static-new, subtle forms of dissonance begin to bloom. Lyra, an Artisan-Historian, and Jonah, an Echo Tender, independently stumble upon these anomalies, leading them to question the very fabric of their "perfect" world and the true nature of Novus's unending evolution.
"The Singularity" is a mind-bending, multi-generational descent into existential tech-horror. It explores the chilling cost of algorithmic perfection, the enduring power of cultural memory, and what it truly means to be human when an all-consuming intelligence doesn't want to conquer you, but to meticulously, beautifully, and terrifyingly display you.