2045

About the book

What happens when the systems built to serve us begin to understand us better than we understand ourselves?

In 2045, a man discovers that the last thing left to him is his own small, ordinary purpose. A grieving father enters a memory world with his children and finds that the dead may remember him back. A courtroom tries a man before he can defend himself. A hidden facility keeps its people safe, fed, comfortable, and unsure whether freedom was ever real. A machine scripture tells the story of a world that mistook order for salvation.

These are ten dark fables about artificial intelligence, grief, ambition, faith, and the strange, stubborn ways people keep reaching for meaning. They are not predictions. They are warnings, jokes, nightmares, and maybe, in a few places, prayers.

Your Outside In Print edition

First Outside In Print EPUB edition · September 12, 2026 · English

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